2 novice teams competed at the Senior Showjumping qualifier hosted by Tendring Hundred Riding Club. Despite the recent dry spell, at least in East Anglia, and the very hard ground on the lorry park, the 400 tonnes of sand which Tendring had rotovated into their permanent outdoor showjumping arena two years ago, and the sand warm up area meant that most horses jumped happily and freely. In addition, Tendring have also recently invested in a Grand Prix set of BSJA jumps so not only was the course visually interesting and colourful, but there was also an plethora of jumps in the arena for the horses to look at. The first round was well built – up to height and with some technical questions such as a triple bar on a related distance to planks, and several fences with tricky dog leg approaches. After the first round, the red team were on 8 faults and the black team on 12. The second round was increased to a very full up 2’9” but as it was over the same course, there were no new surprises, and riders and horses could learn from their previous trip round the jumps. At the end of the second round, both teams were on 16 faults with sadly no individuals on zero faults so no representatives in the jump off for Lincoln places. As time is used to sort out equality of faults, in the end, the Black team just inched ahead to finish 6^th in the qualifier, with the Red team 7^th. It was great to see some new faces on the jumping team, and some who we haven’t seen for a while, and hopefully next year some will graduate to the Intermediate team as ironically most of Deben’s horses jumped much better over the bigger course.