Training competition and rally at Vaumicel

Led by Hubert de Bellaigue, the Vaumicel equestrian club organized a training competition on a Sunday bringing together seven clubs, as well as an equestrian rally.

The first series had 31 courses, including 22 without fault. Samuel Bollinger on Kashmir was ahead of Mathieu Pinet on Quel Bel Air and Claire Thiboumery on Cantor, all from Vaumicel. The second series brought together 39 courses, including 24 without fail: Hugues de Bellaigue on Geisha and Caroline Lecaudey on Pirate, from Vaumicel, preceded Sabine Olive on Suky, from the Pony-Club de l'If.

In the third series, six of the 26 courses were completed without fail. Duclo de Micheli on Olesbay took first place, ahead of Sophie Létan on Hurioso-Rouge and Géraldine Ferdinand on Redingotte. In the fourth series, seven of the fifteen courses were flawless: Duclo de Micheli was ahead of Christelle Leconte on Ifara and Elvine Lédé on Redingotte.

The rally was won by the Roussel-Lecaudey-Tirel crew, ahead of Thomas-Fossi and then Lepoivre-Mandairon. An upcoming contest was announced for Sunday, July 17.

A separate brief announced the festivities of July 14 organized by the Friends of the beach, presided over by Jean-Pierre Delobel: torchlight retreat, parade around 9 p.m. with about thirty people in Revolution costumes, then fireworks at 11 p.m. symbolizing the burning of the castle and popular ball.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The source writes "pony-club Antwerp" for Duclo de Micheli then "Auvers" for the other riders of series 3 and 4. The precise membership of this rider has not been harmonized by assumption.
- The name of Samuel Bollinger's horse is printed "Cachermire"; it is rendered Kashmir, a spelling used elsewhere in this corpus.

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