Welcome to

Delamere Forest Riding Club

The Club was established in 1983 by riders local to Delamere Forest; a wooded area of 972 hectares which lies between Chester and Northwich in the Cheshire Plain. Members now join us from around the region and beyond!
Please look around our site and get to know us. There is lots of useful info on the What’s On page.

Latest news

Helpers are needed to run all our events, and are a condition of membership. Please see the email from Cathy and sign up to do your Help Day, thank you! We are really struggling to find people to run our events at the moment.

July 2025

One Day Event entries will open this month! Keep an eye on Facebook and on this website.

Due to the low numbers at recent dressage competitions, the decision has been made to cancel the remaining summer competitions. Dressage will return for the Winter season in October.

Change of dressage test. From March onwards the second Prelim test will now be a BE90 test. This is due to there being only three 20×40 Prelim tests in the new BD test system. The first prelim points rules still apply, and the BE90 test will remain as an Open “prelim” class. All BE tests are available on the British Eventing website Click here

Renewal of Membership – look out for an email from British Riding Clubs inviting you to renew your Club membership. There are PDFs on the Membership page on how to renew, or how to join DFRC. Membership is now a rolling program via BRC so not necessarily Jan 1st. *****Please don’t forget Help Days are part of membership. The Help Day form is available on the Membership page. ****

About Entry Master – Members entering events will need to input their membership number to receive automatic discounts on entry fees. No more remembering to choose the correct price! For details on how to find your membership number, see the Membership page. Classes in events will also now be available to choose from a drop down menu. No more remembering to type in the right class!

Dressage points – these are available on the Dressage page and refer to the first Prelim only. Riders who accumulate more than 35 points may continue to compete in the second Open Prelim/BE 90 class. Members please check your eligibility BEFORE you enter each dressage. Thank you

Did you know?

We offer an Arena Walk before the Intro test at our Club dressage. If you are not familiar with the rules regarding this, please see the Dressage rules http://www.dfrc.co.uk/dressage-rules

BRC important updates 2025. Please read

BRC handbook 2025 CLICK HERE

2024 Flu rule update CLICK HERE

2025-brc-hat-tagging-guide-for-competitors-v3 Download

2025-brc-bp-standards-v1 Download

What’s On 2025

**2025 DRESSAGE DATES ADDED**
Check out our ‘What’s on’ page to see dates being added for 2025. There’s also details of social events, and an Area Competitions tab to try and encourage members to join in with DFRC teams. Scroll down the page for more info.

NEW – Dressage

Non-members are now able to enter our monthly Dressage competitions as soon as entries open. Although we are a Senior Members only Club, non-member junior riders are very welcome at our competitions too. From February 2025 all tests will be the “new” 2024 BD tests

We use Entrymaster for our events.

Common Questions

It’s easy to become a member of the club. Just visit our Membership page for more details.

Simply click on the link above (and elsewhere on the site) and you’ll be taken to our full calendar of events where you can select the one that’s right for you.

The full schedule will be included here and you can enter and pay electronically using PayPal.

At the moment we are accepting only PayPal payments through Entrymaster.

Due to the current restrictions, we are NOT accepting in-person payments.

We welcome non-members at events, but please check with the event organiser as we give priority to our club members.