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Christmas Day News & Notes from FutureTrack

By on Dec 25, 2023 6:48 am -

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours from all of us here at Team EN! It’s been a year of extraordinary highs and crushing lows, with major victories and also plenty of sad goodbyes dotting the year gone by. Now, we hope you can all take a moment — or more — to celebrate all you’ve accomplished (or, perhaps, survived) this year and raise a glass to a new one to come. Eat, drink, be merry, and if all else fails, we’ll meet you in the barn!

Your Monday Reading List:

For some towns and cultures, horses aren’t just a part of the Christmas morning chore list — they’re a major player in the traditions of the holiday, too. Get to know how horses help make Christmas complete around the world in this round-up guide.

Is your New Year’s Resolution to buy the young horse of a lifetime at an elite auction? Great plan, if so — we’re huge fans of heading to Ireland, say, for a jam-packed couple of days of analysing quality horses and bloodlines and then losing our minds on auction day. But the whole thing can seem pretty intimidating, so it’s worth checking out this guide to getting it right as a buyer at your first auction experience.

Merry Christmas to everyone, but mostly to Sidelines Magazine’s Hot Horseman of the Year, Woods Baughman. Here at EN, we take this accolade and accomplishment very seriously, and definitely aren’t planning to get a series of comedy T-shirts made for Woods to don at trot-ups while we continue to bully him mercilessly on the internet. Definitely not. Anyway, you can read more about our favourite walking stud muffin here.

Got an unhorsey other half in need of a crash course in, well, horsing? Perhaps the time has come to sign them up for a comprehensive online learning course — or, I guess, you could just hand them a shavings fork and let them learn the hard way.

Morning Viewing:

Sneak in some festive polework with this set-up, the installation and execution of which should get you away from your family for a good hour or so:

“She’s Incredibly Special To Us”: Olympic Gold Medallist Amande de B’Neville Retires from Sport

By on Dec 24, 2023 12:31 pm -

 

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Tokyo Olympic individual gold medallist Amande de b’Neville will not return to eventing after a break from the sport that began after the Pratoni World Championships last year, at which she won team gold and individual silver with Germany’s Julia Krajewski in the irons.

“I suppose many people are wondering how Mandy is doing and what’s next for her,” writes Julia in a statement on her Instagram. “First of all she is doing absolutely fine, spending her life in the most horsey way (lots of field time) and being her usual proud self.

“About what’s next for her — to be able to give a reliable answer to that question has taken quite some time and consideration… She is an incredibly special horse to us and every decision about her has to do her the best justice possible! To make it short, she will not return to sport but hopefully become as wonderful as a mummy as she was in eventing.”

Julia Krajewski and Amande de B’Neville. Photo by Shannon Brinkman Photography.

The decision, Julia continues, “was taken together with her part owner Professor Dr. Bernd Heicke, who is the most supportive owner in these difficult topic, always having the horse’s best interest in mind!”

The 13-year-old Selle Français mare’s (Oscar des Fontaines x Perle de b’Neville, by Elan de la Cour) absence from the sport began with “a hoof issue […] which in itself is not very dramatic”, but despite the dedicated ministrations of Julia and her team, including head groom Sandra Decker, it “simply didn’t improve as we hoped since then, despite all sorts of approaches in treatment. While it does not make her uncomfortable in normal life, there is a risk that it might get way worse when the pressure of performance is put on. Even though there also is a little chance it could work, we decided against trying it.”

Julia Krajewski and Amande de b’Neville. Photo by Tilly Berendt.

For Julia, co-owner Bernd, and all of the special mare’s connections, it’s been a labour of love and a major decision to retire Mandy from sport and begin her career as a broodmare.

“Everyone is to judge himself what chances are right to take, but I felt that Mandy gave me so so much, being the most outstanding horse, making all my dreams come true, that my biggest fear would have been to fail her in return and not deciding in her best interest,” says Julia. “Honestly though I’m feeling ambivalent about this final decision… while I am very sad that I will not feel her incredible power, clever mind, scopey jump and sheer determination, which then sometimes peaked into this unreal connection I felt in Tokyo or Pratoni at the last day, again, I am very much at peace with the decision to retire her now and hopefully have some nice foals from her in the future.”

If those foals live up to half their mother’s talent, they’ll certainly be worth getting excited about. In her FEI career, which began in the latter half of 2016, Mandy tackled 31 international events, finishing in the top ten 21 times and winning four times. Though she spent the early part of her upper-level career in the spotlight of her stablemate, the five-star winner Samourai du Thot, she blossomed at exactly the right time: in 2021, just before the German team’s final selections were made for Tokyo, and just as Julia had to retire ‘Sam’ after he lost an eye.

“At the beginning of the year, I deleted all of the Tokyo deadlines and cancelled flights and things, because I thought, ‘okay, well, it’s not for me this year,’ and then we went to Saumur and I had to say, ‘oh, maybe we can go — better cancel the holiday!’,” Julia told EN at Luhmühlen that summer, just weeks before she took the gold in Tokyo. “She’s really come into her own this year — she’s stabled next to Sam, so perhaps he’s telling her a few things. She’s so cool — she’s a real princess, and sometimes a queen. She’s quite a fighter, and a real machine.”

Happy retirement, Mandy – we look forward to covering the successes of your offspring in the years to come.

‘A Different System Means a Struggle’: An Excerpt from Jim Wofford’s Memoir

By on Dec 24, 2023 10:00 am -

In this excerpt from his autobiography Still Horse Crazy After All These Years, Olympian Jim Wofford shares what it was like to struggle with learning a new system of riding in 1965 when he was first selected to train at Gladstone with Stefan von Visy, then US Eventing Team coach.

Jim Wofford as a 14-year-old Lance Corporal at the 1959 Round Barn Horse Show in Barrington, Illinois, doing a pretty good imitation of the U.S. Cavalry seat. Photo courtesy of Culver Academies.

I had always ridden with instructors who based their teaching on the U.S. Cavalry system, as developed by General Harry Chamberlin. Dressage was taught under his system, but the exercises were aimed at improving the rider’s control of the horse, not as specific exercises and movements produced at an exact spot and designed to produce a numerical score. According to Stefan, the rider should control every movement of the horse, especially when approaching a jump. For the first time in my life, I was introduced to the concept of “timing,” which I later defined as the rider’s ability to predict and influence the remaining increments of stride before an obstacle.

In short, I had never known that it was possible to get to a jump “wrong,” so usually produced acceptable efforts from my horses, who were willing partners in our attempts to get to the other side. Not only was I now required to regulate my horse’s approach and arrive at a pre-determined spot in front of each jump, but also I was a terrible rider and a stupid boy when I failed to do this. Stefan had a short fuse, but there were twelve of us on the eventing talent squad (and another twelve on the show-jumping squad), so there were plenty of other stupid boys and girls around to share his critical comments. I didn’t complain; I had expected it to be tough. My military background had accustomed me to discipline and strict behavioral parameters. However, I had expected to be able to improve, and that wasn’t happening.

All this was from my perspective; from the Team’s perspective, I must have been among the best of an unskilled lot. At the end of the two-week clinic, the show jumping and eventing  squads each named six riders who would remain at Gladstone for further training, and I made the list.

The training became more useful as the Intermediate Championships approached. We had a couple of cross-country schools, and we now galloped on a regular basis. Stefan was as organized in his conditioning work as in everything else, and I quickly realized what an advantage I had in coming from a high-altitude location. Both of my horses were obviously fitter than the rest and handled the work easily. My long, slow, progressive conditioning was paying off. Play the Field looked especially good—her old tendon injury did not seem to be an issue—and Atos sniffed disdainfully at his workload.

When the event was over I had placed in the top five, but I suffered one of my most embarrassing moments to do it. The Championships used the Classic format, including road and tracks, steeplechase, and so on. In those days, riders got down after steeplechase and ran alongside their horses on Phase C in order to take the weight off the horse’s back. Atos and I were jogging happily along a gravel road behind the Gladstone estate after steeplechase, heading for the ten-minute vet box, when a car full of young ladies including Lana du Pont, Carol Hoffman, and Donnan Sharp pulled up alongside and started to tell me how good we had looked on the steeplechase. Carol was already a successful show jumper, Lana was an Olympic veteran, and Donnan soon would be. I was consorting with equestrian royalty, and good-looking ones to boot, plus I was fit enough to jog and talk at the same time. But just at the moment I started to think that maybe I was pretty cool, I caught one spur in my other spur strap, tripped, and fell flat on my face in the gravel. Atos never suffered fools gladly and bolted up the road, heading for the barn.

I knew if he ever got loose from me, I wouldn’t catch him until next week, so I held onto the reins like grim death. He pulled me up the gravel road for a while, but finally got tired of my weight on the bridle and stopped. I got to my feet with bloody knees and torn breeches, looking as if I had been pulled backward through a hedge, while the girls in the car pulled past me. I could hear them shrieking with laughter as they went around the bend. I can laugh now, but at the time I was in a suitably grumpy mood for cross-country.

I wasn’t in a hurry to share that story, and obviously Stefan did not hear about it, as I survived the next cut and remained in residence at Gladstone, preparing for the U.S. National Championships in early September. This event would be held in upstate New York, outside of Geneseo, and would provide my most serious test to date.

This excerpt from Still Horse Crazy After All These Years by Jim Wofford is reprinted with permission from Trafalgar Square Books (www.horseandriderbooks.com).

Sunday Links from Etalon Equine Genetics

By on Dec 24, 2023 12:01 am -

Merry Christmas Eve to all! I think a pony gift box from Chewy sounds adorable, and am thinking about starting a new tradition myself. What are your horsey or barn-related Christmas Day traditions? Do you bring a gift for your pony, make a Christmas mash, go for a snowy hack, or give your four-legged partner some R&R? Maybe I’ll start bringing my horse-related gift haul to the barn so my horse can sniff through the box of evidence of just how much of my life belongs to them… Merry Christmas ponies, it’s all for you anyway!

Links to Start Your Sunday:

Dressage riders allowed to ditch spurs completely, plus other horse sport rule changes for 2024

YEH Symposium Returns to Ocala on Feb. 20, 2024

British Eventing 2024 fixture list released

Sponsor Corner: How much blood does your horse really have? Eventers often take the amount of Thoroughbred breeding in their horse as fact. But little do they know that how we currently calculate a horse’s blood percentage isn’t accurate.

Morning Viewing: Last week of the year! It’s been a rollercoaster, so enjoy these wrap-up reels from some European favorites. May your 2024 be full of good rides and healthy horses!

Saturday Video: Sit in on a Lesson with Unstoppable Nicola Wilson

By on Dec 23, 2023 7:22 pm -

Apparently the lead-up to Christmas is also ‘vlogmas’ for those thus inclined — and that means plenty of horsey hijinks over on YouTube, some of which are actually pretty fascinating. For example, this video from British eventing vlogger Meg Elphick, who headed up north to Nicola Wilson’s Yorkshire yard to get a lesson from the former European Champion — and to catch up with her about life on the other side of a major accident. It’ll certainly make you feel grateful for all you’ve got as we head into the holidays proper.

Horse Sport Ireland Confirms High Performance Eventing Managers for Paris Campaign

By on Dec 23, 2023 11:30 am -

Dag Albert and Sue Shortt. Photo courtesy of HSI.

It’s been an admittedly tumultuous period for the Irish eventing team, at least as far as leadership is concerned: after the temporary suspension of team manager Sally Corscadden, who was cleared after an investigation into training practices concluded in July, the team has been operating under the interim management of Swedish Olympian Dag Albert. While the outcome of the case against Corscadden went public in September and HSI, at the time, said that it had not yet confirmed whether or not she would return to her role, in early November, it was announced that Corscadden and HSI would be parting ways, ostensibly amicably, with each thanking one another for a fruitful period spent together — one which saw Corscadden lead the team to team and individual silver medals at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon.

Now, though, with the Paris Olympics inching ever closer, the Irish can sleep a little easier knowing that they’ve once again got a permanent team in place to steer their ship at the Games. Dag Albert has been confirmed as Corscadden’s official successor, taking on the title of High Performance Director for Senior Eventing, while double Irish Olympian manager Sue Shortt will step into the role of Junior Manager, alongside managing Ireland’s Junior and Young Rider eventing teams.

“I am delighted to lead the HSI High Performance Eventing Team to Paris next summer,” says Albert, who stepped into the role in an acting basis in 2022. “Having lead the team to qualification in Pratoni, Italy at the 2022 World Equestrian Games, it is a great honour now to build on that success, and lead the team to the 2024 Olympic Games.”

HSI Chief Executive, Denis Duggan, says: “We are delighted to have secured Dag’s services as High Performance Director for Senior Eventing in what is a very exciting period for Irish eventing. Equally, we are pleased that our existing Young Rider Manager, Sue Shortt will assume additional responsibilities for the Junior Programme while Dag focusses on the Olympic programme over the months ahead.”

“Dag has done a fantastic job at underage level and in the role as Acting Director over the last 20+ months and he has the utmost trust of the organisation and the athletes as we build towards Paris. He has outlined his plans and hopes for the team and has had really productive conversations with our Acting Head of High Performance Sport, Bernard Jackman – we’re really excited for the future and delighted to have him leading the programme, with support from Sue in the Junior and Young Riders programme along with Jane Kinsella who continues as the Eventing Pony manager.”

All High Performance contracts will run until October 2024, after which a review will take place following the closing of the Olympic cycle — but Ireland, which claimed its first five-star win in over fifty years when Austin O’Connor and Colorado Blue took Maryland in October, can head into the pivotal season to come with a real hope for an uptick in Olympic fortune.

 

Saturday Links from World Equestrian Brands

By on Dec 23, 2023 12:01 am -

Keeping in fashion with this entire year, Christmas is coming FAST. Granted, up until about a week ago I was convinced that Christmas Day was on Sunday this year when in fact it is not, it is on Monday. So at least I have one more day to clean my house for guests and finish gift shopping than I thought. Did I leave everything to the last minutes (yet again) this year and will I have a spare moment to ride my horse this weekend? TBD.

Links to Start Your Weekend:

How To Be An Informed Auction Buyer

Stable View to Host Alumni Challenge at 2024 USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Championship

Horses drove societal transformation in South America – study

Horse And Jockey Stay Partners, Even After The Track

FEI sets strict criteria for participation of Russian and Belarusian Athletes, Horses and Officials in FEI Events

Sponsor Corner:

When it comes to saddle pads, it doesn’t get any better than combining velvet and sheepskin 😍🐑 Head to worldequestrianbrands.com to create your custom Mattes pad.

Morning Viewing: I would have through Santa would ride through Badminton on a horse, but I guess bikes have become pretty essential to eventing too.

Going South: SMART Goals, Equestrian Style

By on Dec 22, 2023 12:07 pm -

As we count down to the New Year, it seems fitting to talk about our goals for the next season, particularly as equestrians flock to warmer climes in search of adventure and improvement. In order to make the most of starting out 2024 in the horse capital of the world, i.e. Ocala, set goals for your trip before you leave. Don’t be intimidated – your goal could be as simple as “don’t fall off” (a goal I definitely did NOT achieve last time I went south for the winter!).

We’re taking the SMART acronym for goal-setting and making it applicable to every equestrian who goes south this winter, or to anyone who is planning out their 2024 season, really. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. You’ll find a few slight variations out there. Some people like to replace Attainable with Achievable and Relevant with Realistic, but the acronym still achieves the same thing: a goal that challenges you, pushes you slightly outside of your comfort zone, but is still realistic in the time frame available to you.

 

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Specific: I want to decrease my dressage score.

Right off the bat, many people make rookie mistakes with their goals. They tend to set a goal as something like “I want to improve my riding” or “I want to have a successful horse show.” But what does that really mean? Is a successful horse trial one where you come home with a blue ribbon or score better than before, or maybe one at which you just had a great time? If you want to improve your riding, do you mean in all three phases or just a faster time on cross country?

A specific goal is one that gives a concrete benchmark to work towards. So, instead of saying, “I want to improve my riding,” try a goal such as “I want to decrease my dressage score.” Decreasing your dressage score is a specific action you can take that will improve your overall riding performance.

Measurable: I want to decrease my dressage score by five points.

Okay, you’ve chosen the path you want to take to improve your riding. But what does decreasing your dressage score mean? Are you happy with a half point lower? Four points lower? At the end of the day, you could spend your entire life working towards a lower and lower score. How do you know when it will be enough?

Your goal has to be measurable. To know if your goal is measurable, ask yourself – how will I know if I achieve my goal? “I want to decrease my dressage score by five points” gives you a hard number to work towards. Whether or not you’ve achieved your goal is black and white. You’ve either decreased it by five points while you’re in Ocala or you haven’t. You’ll also know if you’re making good progress towards your goal or going in the wrong direction.

Attainable: I want to decrease my dressage score by three points.

Goals look different for different people. An attainable goal is customized for where you are in your riding journey. For example, my attainable goal for my OTTBs first horse trial was “not fall off…” but we’re all at different points in our eventing journey.

Look back on how long it took you to get to where you are today. Are you being realistic? Are you expecting perfection? Do you have the time to ride often enough to reduce your dressage score by an entire five points? Do you have the budget for the lessons/clinics required?

In Ocala, you’ll most likely have more time to ride than you would at home, but keep in mind that equestrians as a whole have a tendency to be perfectionists, which sets us up for failure. I once had a trainer tell me that if your goal is perfection, you’re actually being lazy. Perfection will never be attainable. So, when you’re striving for perfection, you’re actually working towards nothing at all. It’s better to set a goal that is realistic but still challenging.

 

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Relevant: I want to decrease my dressage so I can pursue my dream of getting my USDF bronze medal.

Why do you want to achieve this goal? Is your dressage score preventing you from coming home with a blue ribbon? Do you want to do more pure dressage? If your goal isn’t relevant to the bigger picture, then there’s no point pursuing it.

Before you head down to Ocala, take some time to reflect on the bigger picture. Think about what you want your future to look like. What would make you happy? What would make your horse happy? Are you retiring your horse from eventing and hoping to resell them as a proven dressage horse?

If your goal isn’t relevant to your big picture, pick a different goal.

Time-Bound: I want to decrease my dressage score by three points before I leave Ocala.

Having a time frame for your goal is important. Without one, you could procrastinate your goal and take years to lower your dressage score. But, your time frame still needs to be attainable. For example, it’s unlikely you’ll manage to drop your dressage score after just one lesson or just one horse trial. Luckily, going to Ocala gives you a built-in time frame. Set up your goal so that it is attainable and realistic to accomplish before you leave.

Ocala is a great location to accomplish your goals. You’ll have access to some of the best trainers and clinicians in the world and more time than ever to ride your horse. As a matter of fact, the biggest risk of going south for the winter is that you’ll want to come back year after year.

Disclaimer: Eventing Nation is not responsible for any equestrian who goes to Ocala on our advice, falls in love with the horse capital of the world, and winds up buying a farm. The best we can do is recommend you use Ocala Horse Properties as your realtor.

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Friday News & Notes Presented by Stable View

By on Dec 22, 2023 9:40 am -


 

Some of my very favourite events are those that really create a family of the wider team around them — and one of the ways they do that is by treating their volunteers as the essential workers they are and showing their appreciation accordingly. I love that Stable View in Aiken makes sure that their volunteers get a celebration to acknowledge all they do — and boy, are some of those goodies and prizes appealing! If I lived on that side of the pond, doing some volunteer hours there in 2024 would definitely be on my priority list.

News from Around the Globe:

It’s a good day to be a Canadian Mounted Police Horse. When the RCMP put out a call to action to find retirement homes for its Musical Ride mounts, they didn’t quite expect the deluge of interest they’d receive — over a thousand applications in 24 hours, as it happens!

We’ve said some sad farewells to some great horses this year. From Olympic gold medalists to rising star stallions, the logbook of losses covers a wide gamut of talent — and Horse&Hound is looking back at six of them in this piece.

Few things thrill me quite like an unlikely mount succeeding at the upper levels. Or, to put it simply: PONIES. In DRESSAGE. So naturally, all I needed to do was read the first paragraph of this COTH piece to know that I was truly, irreversibly in love with The Hot Topic of SpringSong, who has definitely made himself the hot topic of the sand school. Join me in the fangirl clique.

Hot on Horse Nation: Speaking of dressage, and speaking of things that thrill me — an op-ed, this one on the prolific output of classical dressage armchair quarterbacks on the internet, and why many of their suggestions might be… well, not necessarily rooted in the modern reality of the sport. Give it a read and join in the conversation with your thoughts.

 

British Eventing Releases 2024 Fixture Calendar

By on Dec 21, 2023 5:00 pm -

Early season eventing action at beautiful Thoresby Park. Photo by Hannah Cole Photography for BEDE Events.

It’s time to get planning: British Eventing has released next season’s fixtures calendar, which is set to get underway at Epworth (1) in South Yorkshire and Poplar Park in Suffolk on Saturday 2 March 2024.

The 2024 calendar has been particularly challenging due to both Badminton and Burghley moving their dates which has had a huge knock-on implication for the rest of the fixtures for 2024 and 2025. BE has worked hard with organisers to create the most fair and balanced schedules as possible.

Despite the challenges, there are plenty of positives to focus on including the welcome return of Weston Park who will run on 6-7 April, offering classes from Novice to Advanced, which will no doubt be very popular with members.

There will also be several exciting new grassroots additions to the calendar, including two new events in Scotland; Brechin Castle in Angus (BE80-BE100) and Oatridge in West Lothian (BE80-BE100), while in the South West, BE welcomes Kingston Maurward in Dorset (BE80-BE100).

Regional Championships will continue at venues across the country acting as a pathway to the NAF Five Star BE80 Championships at Bramham and the Voltaire Design BE90 and BE100 Grassroots Championships at Badminton.

The British Eventing Leagues will also continue to run across BE80 – BE100 in 2024, including the Newcomers league for those in their first season competing within these height categories. A performance-based prize fund of £10,000 prize fund continues to be allocated to them with prize money being paid out bi-monthly.

The popular GoBE classes will also be available across multiple venues. GoBE BE80 – BE100 classes will continue to require no membership fee payable and offer unpublished results across all levels.

Some other changes to the calendar include an additional day of cross country on the Friday at Cirencester (1) while Oxstalls (1) will replace Goring Heath for 2024 on the Easter weekend. Oasby (1) in March will offer extra Intermediate opportunities for the membership.

For the second year running, Chatsworth will host the British leg of the FEI Nations Cup in May, and in addition to this, BE is grateful for the organisers of Epworth (2) stepping up as a permanent replacement for Speetley in June.

Osberton International (1) is a replacement for Rockingham with classes running from BE100 to Intermediate, CCI2*S, CCI3*S & CCIP2*.

We have also seen some calendar moves this year including Bovington moving to 20-21 April, Tweseldown (2) moving to 10-12 May, Little Downham (2) has moved to 3-4 August, Hopetoun has moved to 3-4 August with Regional Championships, and Chard Equestrian has moved to 31 August-1 September.

Due to reasons beyond the control of the Organisers, South of England has had to move to 21- 22 September for 2024 only, and sadly this means that for one year South of England will not host any FEI classes. A replacement will be announced early in the New Year.

The Fixtures Committee have circulated an Expression of Interest (EOI) to existing Organisers in the hope that these valuable MER opportunities can be replaced. This move was enabled due to the organisers of Munstead kindly agreeing to move to the last week in September to help South of England, a splendid example of organisers working together to give members the best opportunities as possible.

The organisers of Horseheath, Floors Castle, Richmond, Speetley, Somerford Park and Warwick Hall are unable to run this year for various reasons, but we trust that the exciting additions to the calendar will make up for those lost.

 Numbers of key classes

  • 11 events with advanced classes
  • 38 events with Intermediate classes
  • 5 events with 1*S classes
  • 13 events with 2*S classes
  • 14 events with 3*S classes
  • 11 events with 4*S classes
  • 5 events with 2*L classes
  • 4 events with 3*L classes
  • 3 events with 4*L classes
  • 4 events with P2*S classes
  • 6 Regional Championships
  • 19 105 classes
  • 11 80u18 classes
  • 15 18u90 classes
  • 13 18u100 classes
  • 13 18uN classes
  • 106 GoBE cross country days

View the fixtures calendar here. Please note that the website is updating at the moment and will take time for all the fixtures to upload.

In the meantime you can view the full fixtures calendar and further details of which classes are running on each day here.