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WHO
WE ARE
Horseball is a fast paced game played on horseback with a football sized ball being shot through hoops. It’s a combination of rugby and basketball on horses. It’s nuts! And we love it!
The Grove Horseball Club was set up by a bunch of avid enthusiasts to keep playing and training regularly with the aim to enter a team in the league in 2017. In 2018 we managed to enter two teams Kites finished 3rd in National Division II and our novice team Ravens were placed 2nd in Division III ! We also won the best player/horse combination in Div II thanks to Susi Cooper and Costa.
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The club is open to all with weekly training sessions available to hone those horseball skills and we help with Have A Go Days at The Grove Riding School on a monthly basis. We’re based in Buckinghamshire but close to the Oxfordshire and Berkshire borders.
The Club also has a mission to introduce Horseball to as many people as they can! If you've the slightest interest in horses and fancy seeing what it's all about, get in contact to find out when our next open day is and come along! You don’t even need to own your own horse. If you’ve got your own yard and horses, we’ll happily come along and run a taster session at your place too!
ABOUT
OUR CLUB
A long, long time ago in an indoor school far, far away, some idiots started throwing a rolled up jumper wrapped in packing tape around while on horseback. This "cushion polo" became a long standing Christmas tradition at the Grove Riding School and that was how it remained. Until Christmas 2015...
One of our instructors thought "I wonder what this 'Horseball' malarkey is all about?", sent an email to the British Horseball Association and next thing you know a top player comes down to show us all how it worked. 'You what?' 'You have to lean off the horse and pick the ball up!' Ha ha ha it'll never catch on!
So we hired Pyatts arena to play a game on a Sunday evening, made some goals out of water pipe and scaffold poles and hacked over for a one off laugh. It was fun! We hired the arena again the next month. And the next...
We started playing on alternate Wednesdays. Next we live streamed the World Cup from Portugal and before we knew it Dede Godfrey from the Great Britain team turned up to coach us! Wow! we thought, We could end up playing a match in a year or so if we practice really hard! Dede, however, had other ideas. Within 2 weeks she had us signed up for the British Horseball Association Open Championships and we're now officially hooked!
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Thanks to BHA Chairman Jim Copeland we entered a team in the national 2nd Division in 2017 and after a series of defeats whilst learning all the time we eventually won a game and then followed that up by winning the 2017 British Open Novice Championship! In 2018 we have continued to progress and now have 2 teams in the national leagues.