{"id":14888,"date":"2024-10-15T15:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2024-10-18T15:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:27:18","slug":"meet-the-new-bes-equestrian-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/meet-the-new-bes-equestrian-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New BES Equestrian Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A group of four students recently saddled up to represent Bridgnorth Endowed in a National Schools Equestrian Association inter-school event at Allens Hill Centre near Pershore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 10 pupils, Agatha Liddle, Katie Sands and Erin Abbiss, along with Erin\u2019s younger sister Ruby, from Year 8, approached Headteacher, Mr Penn, and asked if they could ride under the BES banner in the NSEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their first outing as a school team saw them show jumping to success as Ruby, in a large class of 40 people, came second with a foot-perfect round on her pony Miami, beaten by only two seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the 80cm Class, Agatha on Smartie got us off to a cracking start with a win, closely followed by Erin on Pluto in third place and Katie who came fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Pony-2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Katie then went on to secure second place in the 90cm Class on 16.2-hand Ballinvoher Zidane, affectionately known as Leo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruby and Erin\u2019s mum proudly reported: \u201cIt was a great day out with wonderful team spirit and all students looking out for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are now busy working out which competitions we need to enter to qualify and will keep you posted on our progress.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done TEAM BES!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo (Above): Katie Sands, Erin Abbiss, and Agatha Liddle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo (Left): Ruby Abbiss<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of four students recently saddled up to represent Bridgnorth Endowed in a National Schools Equestrian Association inter-school event at Allens Hill Centre near Pershore. Year 10 pupils, Agatha Liddle, Katie Sands and Erin Abbiss, along with Erin\u2019s younger sister Ruby, from Year 8, approached Headteacher, Mr Penn, and asked if they could ride &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/meet-the-new-bes-equestrian-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the New BES Equestrian Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,32,16],"class_list":["post-14888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-competitions","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}