Due south for Bedale's polo youngsters (From Durham Times)

Due south for Bedale's polo youngsters

1:17pm Friday 23rd July 2010

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BEDALE Pony Club's polo team heads south this weekend to compete in the Pony Club Polo Championships.

Playing in the qualifying tournaments spread over a week at Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire, Hurtwood, Sussex and Tidworth, Wiltshire, the team of Ruby Beardsall, Angus Johnston, Ellie Tempest and D'Arcy Rainford-Blackett, all 14, will have a chance of getting to the finals at Cowdray Park - the home of polo - in a fortnight.

"The team have been training on our ground at Swinton, which is just between the hotel and the lake," says team manager, Jonny Beardsall. "It's a bit tight but it's the only polo ground between here and Toulston, which is near Tadcaster - it looks almost as smart as Cowdray, if a little more bumpy."

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