OSBORNE REFRIGERATORS
BDS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Unex Towerlands Arena, Braintree, Essex

October 3rd & 4th 2009
 

Osborne Refrigerators Ltd. are the sponsors of the BDS National Championships.

Over 100 qualifiers take place throughout the season with the finals culminating at a new venue at the Unex Towerlands Arena in Braintree, Essex

The Championships are known as the Osborne Refrigerators BDS National Championships.

The move of the Osborne Refrigerators BDS National Championships finals to Towerlands (3rd & 4th October) has enabled the expansion of the series. It will now be divided into four sections: Private Driving, Light Trade, Exercise Vehicles and Young Drivers.

The full rules will be printed in the 2009 Yearbook but the type-sections will be as follows:-

1. Single hackney-type
2. Single non-hackney type (excluding purebred Registered Welsh) over 13.2hh
3. Single non-hackney type (excluding purebred Registered Welsh) 13.2hh & under
4. Single Country Turnout
5. Single purebred Registered Welsh Cobs – Section D
6. Single purebred Registered Welsh Ponies – Section C
7. Single purebred Registered Welsh Ponies - Sections A & B
8. Single Registered Mountain & Moorland (excluding purebred Registered Welsh)
9. Pairs & Tandems - Open. Any height.
10. Two-wheel Light Trade
11. Four-wheel Light Trade
12. Single Turnout driven to a two-wheel exercise vehicle.
13. Single Turnout driven to a four-wheel exercise vehicle.
14. Pair put to a four-wheel exercise vehicle.
15. Single turnout driven to a traditional type vehicle by a young driver aged 10 – 14 years
16. Single turnout driven to a traditional type vehicle by a young driver aged 15 – 17 years
17. Single turnout driven to an exercise vehicle by a young driver aged 10 – 14 years
18. Single turnout driven to an exercise vehicle by a young driver aged 15 – 17 years

for the Towerlands  website.