Members of the Arran Riding Club have been busy recently taking part in a TREC compeitition and a combined training run.
TREC is a relatively new equestrian discipline, originating in an exam for trail ride leaders, and now competed internationally. This year riders had to navigate their way round Glencloy and the Fairy Glen, making sure they found all the people waiting in the woods to check them through. Successful horse orienteering requires attention to detail in the map room, where the route is copied, in order to have half a chance of finding the exact route on the ground.
Rona Fulton and Alison Currie were one of only a couple of pairs to find all the checkpoints. They topped this off with very good ‘control of paces’, where riders must canter as slowly as possible and walk as fast as possible over a marked corridor.