British Endurance Elite
Squad (BEES)
- Chef d’Equipe - Annabelle Scofield
- Team Manager -
Martin Moore
- Team Vet -
Rob Jackson
- Team Farrier – Kelvin Lymer
- Team Osteo - Gavin Scofield
British Endurance
Development Squad (BEWCS&PS)
- Chef d’Equipe - Andrea Baker
- Team Manager - Stevie Martin
- Team Vets – Annamaria Nagy & Charlotte Briggs
- Team Farrier – Chris Pell
- Team Physio - TBC
British Endurance Young
Riders Squad (BEYRS)
- Chef d'Equipe - Helen Boston
- Team Manager – Stevie Martin
- Team Vet – Georgina Hirst
- Team Farrier – Jamie Goddard
- Team Physio – Lee Clarke
MARTIN MOORE (Team Manager – BEES)
I believe the role of a squad manager is to provide “Bottom
Up Support for World Class Performance” to enable the squad athletes (human and
equine), crews and coaches to focus solely on their preparation for and
performance on the international field of play, with the objective of achieving
a Team GBR endurance medal at WEG
Normandy 2014.
What I am bringing to the job are professional management
skills, gained from a 40 year career in international business, and 20 years of
experience of endurance riding (albeit, at a rather lowly level), crewing,
management, stewarding and spectating, including 4 World championships (Jerez
de la Frontera, Rome, Dubai and Kentucky) a European championship (Punchestown)
and many other national and FEI rides in UK, Ireland, Italy and France
(including Florac). Now I am semi-retired I have the time as well as ambition,
competence and resource to give to the Team Manager role.
In business I had an “open door” policy – if anyone had
anything to say to me they could do so face-to-face on the shop floor, in the
laboratory, at the coffee machine, in my office or theirs, or in the pub. I
hope EGB members will feel the same.
ANDREA BAKER (Chef D’Equipe
– BEWCSPS)
I have been involved in Endurance riding since the late
1980's. Prior to that my interest was jumping and cross country with my Irish
Draught.
I was also a keen 'organiser' probably stemming from my
day-job as a travel consultant for some of the UK's top Blue Chip Companies.
I got involved in organising everything from local
gymkhanas, to riding clubs, and assisted in organising some of the livestock
sections at the Surrey County Show.
It was when I brought my first Arab mare that I got
increasingly involved in the Endurance scene and as the miles and latterly -kilometers increased and we were still doing ok, I began to
consider International.
I rode with the - then Intermediate Squad in 1996 to
Belgium and in 1999 won the FEI 3* 160k ride at Cirencester. I travelled as
reserve horse and rider to Compiegne World Championships in 2000. In the few
years that followed, I rode as an individual in FEI rides in France and
Holland, and rode twice for Josami Arabians in South
Africa at the Fauresmith Championships and in the
Gauteng ride, and for Irene Murphy's endurance horses in Arizona and New
Mexico. I have been lucky enough to be offered some really nice horses to ride
and train in the UK and have ridden 5 to advanced level and two to
international level.
I have organised numerous endurance rides and was
co-founder of 'On the Hoof Distance Training Co'. I became involved with the
World Class Squad in 2004 and took over as Chef in 2006.
I hold the BHS teaching certificate, Level 3 Endurance
coach, Level 3 Coach Educator, Foundation Certificate in Equine Sports Massage.
I moved to France in 2010 with my horses and am currently working on my French
equitation exams, as well as training ponies and horses for clients.
My philosophy is that you can’t ever know enough and if I
had known then, with my first endurance horse, what I now know, how much better
we could have been, but then again I will probably say the same thing in 10
years time- about today!
STEVIE MARTIN (Team Manager – BEWCSPS
& BEYRS)
I started riding at a very early age when I was at school in
the New Forest, but I had to wait until I was in my late 30s before I acquired
a horse of my own.
My first encounter with Endurance, or Long Distance Riding
as it was then, was in 1989 on a borrowed horse. The ride was on Bodmin Moor
and the weather was horrific but I was hooked.
Since then I have ridden, crewed and helped at rides of all levels and in all
weathers. I was Chairman of Selectors for three years, spent three years on the
EGB Management Committee and am a 4* FEI official.
For the last two years I have been the Team Manager for the British Endurance
Development Squad, a job I thoroughly enjoy, and will be going to Belgium with
them again in May this year.
I think my main attribute for this job is that I am very self motivated and
organised. In fact my entire life seems to have been about organising, as a
child getting a band of kids together to go scrumping for apples to organising
a staff of 50 when working as the Catering Officer and Location Caterer for the
local television studios and London film crews that came down to Devon and
Cornwall. In 1976 my husband and I purchased a cottage with some derelict land
which we cleared and then ran as a smallholding with cows, sheep, pigs and
poultry even making our own butter and grinding our own wheat for our bread. A
lovely way of life but hard work.
ANNAMARIA NAGY (Team Vet – BEWCSPS)
After qualifying as a vet in 2004 in Budapest, Hungary,
Annamaria completed an internship at Dubai Equine Hospital. With the aim to
specialise in equine orthopaedics, Annamaria completed a second equine
internship at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. She spent some time working
in an equine ambulatory practice in Lincolnshire. Annamaria completed a Senior
Clinical Training Scholarship (Residency) in Equine Orthopaedics and Diagnostic
Imaging at the University of Bristol.
Annamaria’s main clinical interests are lameness diagnosis
and diagnostic imaging. She is currently based at the Animal Health Trust,
combining clinical work and a PhD in epidemiology of orthopaedic injuries in
endurance horses. Annamaria has been involved in clinical research in the field
of equine orthopaedics, diagnostic imaging and endurance horses. The results of
the studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at
national and international congresses. Annamaria competed in show-jumping as a
young rider at National Championships level in Hungary.
She developed a keen interest in endurance horses during her
internship in Dubai. She has worked in several countries both as treatment vet
and line vet and she is now a 3* FEI vet. Outside of work, Annamaria enjoys
hiking, rock climbing, horse riding and travelling.
CHRIS PELL (Team Farrier – BEWCSPS)
I started Endurance Riding in 1990 and competed myself until
1997 when I went to Herefordshire College to start to train to become a
farrier. My main achievement was competing in Switzerland in 1994 on the
Young Rider team. Although I stopped competing I have continued to be
involved in the sport crewing for friends and family at all levels.
In 2001 I obtained the Diploma of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (DipWCF)
and set up my own business. I was Team Farrier for the British Young
Rider Endurance Team from 2007 to 2009. I also stood in for the Elite
Team Farrier at the European Championships in 2009.
In 2010 I became the Team Farrier for the British Endurance Development Squad
and am really enjoying helping riders achieve their aim of progressing to
international ride level.
I am currently studying for the Associateship of the Worshipful Company of
Farriers qualification.
HELEN BOSTON (Chef D’Equipe – BEYRS)
It is an honour to have been given the opportunity to become
Chef d’Equipe for the British Endurance Young Rider Squad, a group of people
for whom I have had a lot of admiration since becoming involved with them
through my own daughter’s squad involvement a few years ago.
I have been involved with horses
since I could walk, going through Pony Club and competing in dressage,
showjumping and also eventing, however I always wanted to do “long distance riding”
and had to wait until I was in my 30’s to have a chance to do this. Since getting involved in endurance (in my
30’s!!!), I have competed, crewed, marshalled, helped with the local group on
the committee, as well as travelling to the Czech Republic and crewing for the
Young Rider Squad at the European Championships. This was not only thoroughly enjoyable, but a
fantastic experience and great insight into the world of international
endurance, and I knew then, that I would love to be part of this team
again.
My working life has seen me working in all sorts of
organisations, however more recently I spent 7 years as a Police Officer
unfortunately being medically retired at the end of 2007 following a road
traffic accident which left me slightly disabled. I now work for a project that is part of the
Social Services Dept of Newcastle City Council, based in Middlesbrough, which
offers help and support to gay and bisexual men. A total change to pounding the beat but one
which brings many of it’s own challenges non-the-less!!
I currently live in the North East, approx 1 hour south of
Newcastle on the North Yorkshire border. I have a partner, Stewart, and two
children, Amy who is at university and Daniel who is studying towards his A
levels which he takes this year. Having
had a few horses over the years we are now down to one, a beautiful part bred
Arab mare who I love to bits!!! We also
have a little terrier called Toby.
I am thrilled and excited at being given this opportunity
and look forward to working with EGB and the YR Squad over the coming months
and through what will hopefully be, a very exciting year.
GEORGINA HIRST (Team Vet – BEYRS)
I graduated from the Royal Veterinary College London in 2007
and then spent a month working for SPANA, a horse charity in Morocco, before
undertaking an Internship at the Dubai Equine Hospital in the UAE.
In Dubai my time was spent working with both racehorses and endurance
horses, I also helped out in the treatment tents at the endurance rides.
Since returning to the UK, I have worked in several equine practices and I am
now based at Chine House Veterinary Hospital in Leicestershire.
As well as having competed in endurance myself (coming 3rd at the World Young
Horse Championships in Compiegne in 2007), I have also crewed for members of my
family at International level, including the World Equestrian Games in Aachen,
the World Young Rider Championships in Bahrain and the European Championships
in Compiegne. Having seen many aspects of endurance, I realise how
important the welfare of the horse is and take great pride in trying to enable
the horse to compete and complete at there best.
I was Assistant Team Vet for the Senior Team at the 2009 European Championships
in Asissi, Italy and was the Young Rider team vet at the 2010 Young Rider
European Championships in Kreuth, Germany.
As well as vetting at many national rides, I am also an FEI 2** vet.
In my spare time I enjoy bringing on young endurance horses and
currently have two projects on the go, one of which is a homebred 5 year old,
who I have high hopes for.
JAMIE GODDARD (Team Farrier – BEYRS)
My name is Jamie Goddard and I have been around horses ever
since I can remember.
School years were a bit of a blur really, all I seem to
remember is going hunting with my Grandad at weekends. However,
after what seemed an eternity, I finally left school to enrol with Warwickshire
College in order to embark on the long journey to realize my ambition of
becoming a farrier.
Having gained my qualification, I started an apprenticeship with Peter Baker
AWCF – one of the country’s most respected farriers. Finally I set
up my own business, Goddard Farrier Services, in 2001, and have
progressively built up a substantial client base within the equestrian
community.
Professionally, one of my many career highlights was to shoe
this year’s Badminton Winner on behalf of a client and friend Paul Tapner –
personally, I can be found out hunting with the Old Berks during the winter
months and eventing throughout the summer.
I am always seeking new challenges and am thankful to Endurance
GB for appointing me as farrier to the Young Riders – I look forward to meeting
and working with you all soon.
LEE CLARK (Team Physio
– BEWCSPS & BEYRS)
I qualified in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science Honours
Degree in Physiotherapy from the School of Health at the University of
Teesside. I initially worked in the NHS
for 2 years whilst training to treat animals. Since qualifying as an Animal
Physiotherapist in 1999 I have tried to devote equal time between treating
Horses and people.
Over the years I have worked as an Occupational
Physiotherapist within some of the largest companies in the north-east and I
was part of the medical team involved in running the most intensive Spinal
Rehabilitation Programme in the country.
Then, eight years ago I opened a Private Physiotherapy clinic, which is
now situated within Darlington Football Club, specialising in the treatment of
spinal pain and sports injuries.
My caseload in the clinic mainly consists of treating the
riders of the horses that I work with.
As I assess more horses and their riders together, it is interesting to
see how the riders’ physical condition can substantially affect the horse. Any asymmetry, weakness or imbalance of the
rider can lead to pain and performance problems in the horse.
As well as the acute injury aspect of treating horses and
riders, my wife and I spend a lot of time rehabilitating horses with more
serious problems such as Tendon and Ligament Injuries. This involves intensive
daily treatment at our Equine Physiotherapy Clinic in Darlington. Here we combine modern technology with
techniques solidly proven to assist in soft tissue healing.
However “prevention is better than cure”, so I also like to
work with clients preparing them and their horse physically throughout the
year. This helps to prevent injuries and maximize their potential so that they
can perform to the best of their ability during competitions.
On a more personal note, I began horse riding about 12 years
ago, and throughout the years have participated in most disciplines at a low
level as unfortunately work always seemed to get in the way. I am a keen
amateur athlete regularly fell running with my two Alaskan Malamute dogs and
enjoy the odd Triathlon when I get a rare weekend off.
