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DetailsOriginal Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 52 secs Credits: Ronald Padgett Genre: Amateur
Subject: Sport Rural Life Entertainment/Leisure
Summary An amateur film produced by Ronald Padgett that features members of the Westway Riding School saddling their horses and riding them into a field, possibly at Harewood House, where they either practice for or take part in various gymkhana events. After certificate are handed out, they ride their horses back to the stables.
Description
An amateur film produced by Ronald Padgett that features members of the Westway Riding School saddling their horses and riding them into a field, possibly at Harewood House, where they either practice for or take part in various gymkhana events. After certificate are handed out, they ride their horses back to the stables.
Title: Pony Club Course Harewood Aug 1963
A hanging sign for the ‘Westways Riding School’ changes to the stables where horses are being prepared for riding. A horse is led...
An amateur film produced by Ronald Padgett that features members of the Westway Riding School saddling their horses and riding them into a field, possibly at Harewood House, where they either practice for or take part in various gymkhana events. After certificate are handed out, they ride their horses back to the stables.
Title: Pony Club Course Harewood Aug 1963
A hanging sign for the ‘Westways Riding School’ changes to the stables where horses are being prepared for riding. A horse is led though the yard by a young girl wearing riding gear, a second horse appears with the rider climbing onto their animal. Three horse and riders leave the farm and make their way down a country road.
In a field a girl leads her horse towards a broken-down farm gate. Two horses in a field with two young girls getting changed into their riding gear nearby.
Ten riders on horseback stand in a field, and there are various games. Horses speed along a course with the riders dropping something into an orange bucket before speeding back. Other horses take part in the event. In another race four girls race down a course, jump of the horse and lead their horse back to the start line.
With riders seated on their horses, awards are handed out by a woman standing behind a small table. Several girls come forward to collect their award or certificate.
With the event over horses are walked around the field before being put into horses boxes. The film ends with four horses and their rides arriving back at Westways Riding School.
End title: The end
Context About Ron Padgett (1923-2001)
Ron Padgett was born in Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, but spent his entire married life living in Leeds. He became a keen cinematographer in the late 1950s and was an active member of the Leeds Cine Club throughout the 1960s – winning competitions for his 8mm films.