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Jesters Flat Tournament – Nov 14th & 15th

Qualia News

This was the 2nd last tournament for the year and with our Nationals horses (Stoneage Giggle, Riom Curlew and Rosebrook Archer) packed away and getting fat on a well earned break it was a good chance for us to take our younger horses along and play in a less competitive environment. Our club, Foothills, fielded an A Grade team and although it was not your normal high level comp it still featured a lot of the Nationals players, just on younger horses.

Adrian played Barnetts Lady Jane who had suffered an injury earlier in the year so has been spelled for a few months and now back in work for the camp-draft season. Although she is not green it was really good for this mare to be playing without the high pressure and physicality of normal A Grade which she has now been playing full time for 2 seasons. She hasn’t even had a chance to play B Grade as yet! She played both the No 3 and 1 positions and was free flowing and confident throughout the whole weekend.

I played on Stoneage Slips, her first ‘real’ tournament!! She has only ever played about 6 chukkas up until this weekend as we having been taking her very slowly, giving her time to mature and grow as she is a fairly petite type of mare. I played her in the No 2 spot and she just got better every chukka and every game. Her natural balance and ability made her an absolute pleasure to play. And to come away with an A Grade win at her first go was the icing on the cake!

We were also very excited when Barnetts Ali, who we trained and played previously then sold on earlier this year, was awarded the Champion D Grade pony prize with her new owner! Well done to Justin and Ali for making such a great combination!

A GRADE
Foothills d South Midlands
Score: 20-14
Foothills Team: Adrian Tiver, Jodi Tiver, Kerryn Parsons, Ray Miller, Steve McMurray and Paul Cal
South Midlands Team: Jeff Martin, Melissa Mills, Suzette Thomas, Jenny Hall, Gary McGlew and BJ Thomas
Champion Horse: 'Barnetts Able' ridden by Jeff Martin

C GRADE
Margaret River d Capel
Score: 13-12
Champion Horse: 'Juicyfruit' ridden by Zoe Martin

D GRADE
Jesters Flat Black d Jesters Flat Blue
Score: 5-3
Champion Horse: 'Barnetts Ali' ridden by Justin Buchanan

JUNIORS
Jesters Flat d Capel/Margaret River
Score: 7-6
Champion Horse: 'Box' ridden by Ben Hutton

Foothills Tournament – Oct 31st & Nov 1st

Qualia News

Hosting your own tournament is a seriously stressful job so we decided not to play and try and help out as much as possible. Also, we were playing on Saturday night for WA in the State of Origin Match which was held under lights.

Rosebrook Archer had to stay in work for an extra week to play this game and he handled everything really well. He was played by Adrian in the No 2 position between Aiden Thurkle and Justy Fleay. The boys were a little outplayed by the World Team of Trent Cooper, Rob Sibley and Michael Semmens but Archer did an admirable job and some handy off the ball marking up.

I was lucky enough to be loaned Kelly Stewart’s mare Rosebrook Abelia (who is currently for sale) for the match and also for a few weeks before that. Big thanks to Kelly as she was a real star on the night! I played her in the No 2 spot and although we started a little scratchy with Jane Cooper taking the first few possessions we found our groove and managed to get hold of a lot of ball for the WA Team! It was a great game and was really enjoyed by all spectators.

Barrel Race Winners & Runners Up
Men's
1st: Greg Rodwell and Fable
2nd: Scott Gurney and Saxon

Women's
1st: Jane Cooper and Mtumba
2nd: Jodi Tiver and Rosebrook Abelia

Juniors
1st: Christie Martin and Yamaha
2nd: Joesph Borg and ?

A Grade
South Midlands d Foothills
Champion Horse & Rider: 'Corona' ridden by Chris Dunlop

B Grade
Walkaway d Kojonup
Champion Horse & Rider: 'Roseridge Kahlua’  ridden by Michael Semmens (Perth)

C Grade
Murray d Capel
Champion Horse & Rider: 'Edenhope Sophie' ridden by Nikki Cant (Koji)

D Grade
South Midlands Red d South Midlands Blue
Champion Horse & Rider: 'Yamaha' ridden by Christie Martin (Souths)

E Grade
Perth d Foothills
Champion Horse & Rider: '?' ridden by Tracey Smith (Perth)

Champion Women's Horse & Rider: '?' ridden by Monica Walsh  - Walkaway A Grade

Champion Men's Horse & Rider: 'Slippery' ridden by Jeff Martin - South Midlands A Grade

Overall Champion Horse & Rider of the Tournament: 'Corona' ridden by Chris Dunlop - Foothills A Grade

State of Origin Match - WA vs The Rest of the World

Saturday Oct 31st 7:30pm

WA Open Mixed Team
Tracey Jarrett - Storm
Jodi Tiver - Rosebrook Abelia
Sarah Marriott - East Lynne Plucker
Aiden Thurkle - Roger
Adrian Tiver - Rosebrook Archer
Justy Fleay - Showtime

Rest of the World Open Mixed Team
Bloss Thomas - Wonder Woman
Jane Cooper - Maytime
Dori Johnson - East Lynne Mtumba
Trent Cooper - Zack
Rob Sibley - Yogi
Michael Semmens - Lassie

Rest of the World d WA

Champion Women's Horse & Rider: 'Rosebrooka Abelia' ridden by Jodi Tiver (WA) - loaned by Kelly Stewart

Champion Men's Horse & Rider: 'Zack' ridden by Trent Cooper (World) - loaned by Rob Sibley

Southern Zone Championships

Kojonup – Oct 25th & 26th

 Men’s
Midwest d Centrals 1
Fairest & Best Player: Jared Martin (Midwest)
Champion Horse: ‘Edenhope Scoop’ ridden by Jared Martin
Champion Australian Stock Horse: ‘Edenhope Scoop’ ridden by Jared Martin

Women’s
Midwest d Centrals
Fairest & Best Player: Jane Cooper (Midwest)
Champion Horse: ‘East Lynne Mtumba’ ridden by Jane Cooper
Champion Australian Stock Horse: ‘Springbrook Hightide’ ridden by Trish Jones (Midwest)

Intermediate Mixed
Great Southern d Centrals
Fairest & Best Player: John Nye-Chart (Midwest)
Champion Horse: ‘Donkey’ ridden by Dan Cransberg (Midwest)
Champion Australian Stock Horse: ‘Berragoon Smiley’ ridden by Sandy Corbett (Centrals)

Juniors
Centrals d Midwest
Fairest & Best Player: Rachael Cobley (Centrals)
Champion Horse: ‘Chantelle’ ridden by Tia Hall (Centrals)
Champion Australian Stock Horse: ‘Edenhope Elphin II’ ridden by James Lester (Centrals)

B Grade
Kojonup d Moonyoonooka
Champion Horse: ‘Roseridge Shadow’ ridden by Lyle Scott (Moony)

C Grade
Murray d Perth
Champion Horse: ‘Annie’ ridden by Kate Bishop (Foothills)

C Grade Mixed
Midwest d Kojonup
Champion Horse: ‘Gizmo’ ridden by Nicole Waddingham

D Grade
Kojonup d Kojonup
Champion Horse: ‘Blondie’ ridden by Bec Bell (Koji)

E Grade
Perth d Jesters Flat
Champion Horse: ‘Sarki’ ridden by Tao Jordan

Junior A
Margaret River d Perth
Champion Horse: ‘Balaka Zap’ ridden by Tom Keightley

2010 Australian National Polocrosse Championships – Western Australian Teams

2009 Griffin Energy WA State Polocrosse Championships

October 10th & 11th Brigadoon

OPEN
Walkaway d South Midlands
Champion Pony: 'Pokemon' ridden by Doug Brown (Walkaway)
Best No 1: Jeremy Thurkle (Walkaway)
Best No 2: Bruce Smith (Souths)
Best No 3: Wayne Woods (Walkaway)

OPEN MIXED
Greenough d Foothills
Champion Pony: 'Edenhope Scoop' ridden by Jared Martin (Greenough)
Best No 1: Jeremy Marriott (Greenough)
Best No 2: Vanessa Freeman (Moony)
Best No 3: Jane Cooper (Greenough)

INTERMEDIATE MIXED
Kojonup d Moonyoonooka
Champion Pony: 'Berragoon Smiley' ridden by Sandy Corbett (Foothills)
Best No 1: Hailey Martin (Greenough)
Best No 2: Claire Parker (Greenough)
Best No 3: Matt Adams (Moony)

JUNIORS
Perth d Moonyoonooka
Champion Pony: 'Edenhope Elphin II' ridden by James Lester (Perth)
Best No 1: Tennille Crabb (Greenough)
Best No 2: Jana Dillon (Greenough)
Best No 3: Tia Hall (Perth)

B GRADE
Kojonup d Foothills
Champion Pony: 'Spook' ridden by Mick Keightley (Koji)

C GRADE
Kojonup d Perth
Champion Pony: 'Balwyn Lolita' ridden by Adrian Lester (Perth)

D GRADE
Perth d South Midlands
Champion Pony: 'Balwyn Kenny' ridden by Barclay Day (Perth)

E GRADE
Foothills/Jesters Flat d Perth
Champion Pony: 'Sarky' ridden by Tao Jordan

JUNIOR A
Perth d Margaret River

Overall Champion Horse of the Tournament: 'Edenhope Scoop' ridden by Jared Martin (Greenough)

Best Presented Team: Foothills Open Mixed

2009 Northern Zone Championships

September 26th & 27th Walkaway

MEN'S
Midwest - won on goal count
Champion Pony: 'Roger' ridden by Aiden Thurkle (Midwest)
Fairest and Best Player: Jared Martin (Midwest)
Champion ASH & Overall Champion Men's ASH: 'Edenhope Scoop' ridden by Jared Martin (Midwest)

WOMEN'S
Midwest 1 d Centrals 1
Champion Pony: 'East Lynne Mtumba' ridden by Jane Cooper (Midwest 1)
Fairest and Best Player: Jane Cooper (Midwest 1)
Champion ASH & Overall Champion Women's ASH: 'East Lynne Mtumba' ridden by Jane Cooper (Midwest 1)

INTERMEDIATE MIXED
Great Southern d Midwest
Champion Pony: 'Way Way Rossi' ridden by Hannah Watkin (GS)
Fairest and Best Player: Hannah Watkin (GS)
Champion ASH: 'Berragoon Smiley' ridden by Sandy Corbett (Centrals)

JUNIORS
Centrals 1 d Midwest 1
Champion Pony: 'Future Tommy Girl' ridden by Hillary Beech (Centrals)
Fairest and Best Player: Emily Walton (Midwest)
Champion ASH: 'Future Tommy Girl' ridden by Hillary Beech (Centrals)

B GRADE
Moonyoonooka - won on goal count
Champion Pony: 'Fable' ridden by Greg Rodwell (Foothills)

C GRADE
Kojonup d South Midlands
Champion Pony: 'Pago' ridden by Casey Criddle

C GRADE MIXED
Walkaway d Moonyoonooka
Champion Pony: 'Nandeye Lace' ridden by Catherine Crabb


D GRADE
Walkaway d Perth
Champion Pony: 'Amber' ridden by Kim McGuire

E GRADE
Perth 1 d Walkaway
Champion Pony: 'Whiskey' ridden by Tara Chown

South Midlands Tournament August 29th & 30th 2009

South Midlands club held the first tournament within the central zone for the 2009 WA season and with 42 teams nominated it was certainly going to be a big weekend! The weather didn’t look all that favourably on Friday with trucks rolling in before lunchtime, but it had cleared by Saturday morning which dawned very cold and frosty. The excitement had actually started before the teams had even taken the field with the host club’s captain Ben Thomas and wife Suzette Thomas (recent Australian captain) welcoming their very first child, a baby girl, on the Friday night! This did throw a little spanner in the works for the South Midlands A Grade with Ben being one of the strongest players, but Suz, ever the good polocrosse wife, gave Ben a leave pass and he arrived just in time for their afternoon game against the Walkaway team. Jeff Martin was back from injury for them and doubled up for their first game in the morning.

Walkaway, although missing one of their strongest players in Trent Cooper, did provide one of the upsets for the weekend rolling the South Midlands Team on Saturday. They also had another good win against Foothills in the morning and the strong and well horsed Perth team also went through undefeated. With 5 teams this set up a big clash between Perth and South Midlands Sunday morning with Souths needing the win to still be in contention and they pulled it off after a slow start against a flat looking Perth team. This put a real spin on the afternoon game between Walkway and Perth!! If Walkaway were to win they would take the cup but if Perth won it would all go down to goal count between Souths, Perth and Walkway who all would have 3 wins on the board each after South Midlands got some runs on the board against Foothills that afternoon.

The so called ‘final’ provided some fantastic fast action and skilful polocrosse and with PJ Hall changing to a 3 and finally finding some form after a few quiet games in the number 2 spot, their chukka of Rob Sibley, Matt Welsh and PJ kicked away from the Walkway team throwing a big 7-0 chukka in the 5th. But unfortunately this wasn’t enough to secure them the 6 goal win they needed to take the trophy and South Midlands ran out the eventual winners on goal count. Not a great way to win, but it was a win for the blue and reds all the same!

There was also some great polocrosse played in the B Grade which had a massive 7 teams in the mix! With Moony and Greenough not being able to field an A Grade due to some absent players and Walkway fielding 2 teams they were certainly some of the favourites. The mix of young and old players for the Foothills club were also doing some damage and after some very close games including the final which ended in a draw due to a very unfortunate accident they were the winners!!

Well done to the South Midlands club on a great weekend and good to see so many teams and good polocrosse played throughout the weekend.

Qualia News

Lady Jane and Giggle played their first full tournaments of the season in our Foothills A Grade side. The standard of the A Grade competition this year has been incredibly strong and this weekend was no exception. Although our team was undermanned and inexperienced compared to the other side’s both mares  played some really good, tough polocrosse against much more experienced and hardened horses so we couldn’t have been more pleased with them.

RESULTS

A Grade

South Midlands won on goal count (Perth runners up)
South Midlands Team: BJ Thomas, Jeff Martin, Ben Thomas, Adrian Cobley, Bruce Smith & Scott Gurney
Perth Team: Robert Sibley, PJ Hall, Matt Welsh, Jason Stowe, Sharna Hall & Michael Semmens
Champion A Grade Horse: ‘Spider’ ridden by Ben Thomas and Jeff Martin (2 games each)

B Grade
Foothills won on goal count (Moonyoonooka runners up)
Foothills Team: Chris Corbett, Sandy Corbett, Greg Rodwell, Graham Tiver, Mick Rynne & Julie Bolingbroke
Moonyoonooka Team: John Clohessy, Perry Cusack, Pete Howden, Alana Clohessy, Trish Jones & Vanessa Freeman
Champion B Grade Horse: ‘Boo’ ridden by Alana Clohessy
*Our thoughts go out to Alana and John Clohessy on the loss of this wonderful horse

C Grade
Foothills d Irwin
Foothills Team: James Mathwin, Holly Ludeman, Tom Mathwin, Paul Corbett, Mick Mathwin & Steve McMurray
Champion C Grade Horse: ‘Scooby’ ridden by Rachael Cobley

C Grade Mixed
Perth d South Midlands
Champion C Grade Mixed Horse: ‘Edenhope Elphin’ ridden by James Lester

D Grade
Walkaway d Kojonup
Champion D Grade Horse: ‘Caesar’ ridden by Megan Keightley

E Grade
Walkaway d Foothills
Champion E Grade Horse: ‘JB’ ridden by Jess Pulia

Greenough Tournament

With sunshine forecast and lovely, green fields (which was fantastic to see!!) the Greenough Tournament drew quite a large number of teams, 36 in total. There were 6 teams in the A Grade and a massive 10 in the C Grade which must have been quite a nightmare for the club to organise games and a draw! But everything ran quite smoothly with just a slight drizzle of rain on Saturday morning, just to keep the dust down!

Qualia News

We were part of the ‘young horse’ Foothills A Grade team for this tournament and at the end of the day the team went very well and all players did their jobs superbly. Barnetts Ali played her first game of Polocrosse and went above and beyond what was expected of her so we couldn’t have been more pleased. She has now been sold and we are looking forward to this talented mare continuing to impress her new owner.

Rosebrook Archer also had another very good weekend with a solid performance in the No 1 position with Tivs. Archer played against some of the strongest No 3 horses in WA and displayed determination and athleticism throughout all games.

Due to us unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, being put out of the running for the A Grade final on Saturday we were able to play other horses on Sunday. Lady Jane was played by Tivs and Giggle by Jodi and both mares, albeit fat and very unfit, put in a good, competitive performance. This was Giggle’s first run in the A Grade and she had the difficult task of playing against a very in form and much fitter ‘Spring Brook Hightide’ (ridden by Trish Jones) who did happen to take out the A Grade Champion Pony Award! I know Giggle and I are certainly looking forward to a rematch at the first Zone carnival in September!

A Grade
Walkaway d Perth
Score: Walkaway won by 3
Walkaway Team: Trent Cooper, Doug Brown, Wayne Woods, Aiden Thurkle, Dean Ryan and Ray Miller
Perth Team: Matt Welsh, PJ Hall, Michael Semmens, Robert Sibley, Sharna Hall and Jason Stowe
A Grade Champion Pony Award: 'Springbrook Hightide' ridden by Trish Jones of Moonyoonooka

B Grade
Moonyoonooka d Walkaway
Moonyoonooka Team: Alana Clohessy, Rick Smythe, Lauren Cant, Hayley Smythe, Pete Howden & Nicole Howden
B Grade Champion Pony Award: 'Micro Mouse' ridden by Pete Malady of Kojonup

C Grade
Moonyoonooka d Greenough
Score: 18 - 17
Moonyoonooka Team: Paul Simkins, Sharon Wundenburg, Emily Walton, Brian Wundenburg, Dan Cransberg & ?
Greenough Team: Aaron Cole, Pippa Bain, Joel Harcourt, Dean Levett, Jana Dillon & Hannah Criddle
C Grade Champion Pony Award: 'Chantelle' ridden by Tia Hall of Perth

D Grade
Walkaway d Mullewa
Score: ?
D Grade Champion Pony Award: '?' ridden by Tenille Crabb of Walkaway

E Grade
Murray - won all games in round robin
E Grade Champion Pony Award: 'Bayley' ridden by Darryl Morris of Walkaway

Murchison Tournament July 11th & 12th 2009

A Grade
Walkaway d Greenough
Score: Walkaway by one goal!
Walkaway Team: Wayne Woods, Trent Cooper, Sally O’Brien, Doug Brown, John Hart & Ray Miller
Greenough Team: Jared Martin, Liz Lyster, Tom Levett, Rachael Martin, Hailey Martin & ?
A Grade Champion Pony Award: ‘Tiger Lily’ ridden by Rachael Martin

B Grade
Foothills – won all games in round robin of 6 teams
Foothills Team: Adrian Tiver, Shane Wheat, Stewy Bolingbroke, Paul Calneggia, Graham Tiver & Greg Rodwell
B Grade Champion Pony Award: ‘Rosebrook Archer’ ridden by Adrian Tiver

C Grade
Walkaway d Moonyoonooka
C Grade Champion Pony: ‘Roger’ ridden by Michael Thurkle of Walkaway

D Grade
Walkaway d ?
D Grade Champion Pony: ?

E Grade
Perth d Walkaway
E Grade Champion Pony: ‘Lucinda’ ridden by Annabelle Campbell of Walkaway