SEEL ARENA EVENTING QUALIFIERS

SEEL Arena Eventing Championships 2025

Sam secures the’ Double’

Sam Sweeney aboard Warren Marshalls ‘Foody Classic Dawn’ took the honours at a sun-soaked Petley Wood to secure the 100 Arena Eventing title. The same combination won last years BE 100 SEEL rankings. Sam won the class by the narrowest of margins, beating herself on ‘Brittania Royale ‘ by 0.1 of a penalty. Simon Blake and Jolly Quality took the final podium spot.
The 24 fence championship course which asked the right number of questions with 29 jumping efforts rode really well with lots of inside lines which suited the classes which oozed a high standard from start to finish.

The 80 Championship class went the way of Megan Verhagan on the coloured gelding Beechwood Boy who rode a faultless round, making the course look easy with a well judged round just 0.32 inside the optimum time. Podium spots went to runner up Tristan Mante, who earlier in the day won the 70 junior class and the ever consistent Dinah Smith on Culmore JJ who defied the veterans age posting the fastest time of the whole day.

The 90 Championship title went the way of Jessica Moreton and Hey Mickey, who secured there qualifying spot earlier in the year at Petley. The combination again rode a lovely round from an early draw which didn’t look that quick but made use of all the correct lines and made it all look to easy. Amy Tate took the runners up spot just 2 pens behind with prolific Arena Eventing winner this year Fiona Patty taking third place and her place on the podium.

All the Championship winners, alongside their generous prize money win two complimentary tickets to the SEEL Ball and awards on 22 November in Tunbridge Wells where they will pick up their trophies.
A big thank you must go to Jake Tarrant from Eqivation who sponsored this years championships as part of their final year of title sponsorship.

FOOTNOTE:
Unfortunately, the SEEL Committee are seriously looking at the viability of running these Championships in 2026. Entries for the finals have decreased year after year and without a title sponsor in place for 2026 and the committee feel all efforts and finances are better spent on keeping the SEEL running past its 30 year existence.

SEEL Arena Eventing 2024-2025

We are pleased to get going in the recommencement of the SEEL Arena Eventing qualifiers which are now in full swing. Please ensure you get your entries to all the host venues promptly to ensure you don’t miss out on this prestigious series, all classes will be drawn order and online entries only. This was a new series which started in 2018 and run jointly by Pyecombe, Coombelands and Golden Cross with the final changing venues annually between the centres. Other venues will be invited to hold qualifiers during the qualifying period.

A full list of all qualified combinations can be found below and will be updated regularly when results are received from the hosting venues.

Qualifying Venues & Dates 24-2025

PETLEY WOOD
15 September
26 October
3 November (BDRC)
10 November
7 December
26 January
22 February
8 March
6 April  SEEL Championship  Finals