YORKSHIRE-based Frys Equestrian, at Aike Grange, near Driffield, owned by the Fry family, will no longer hold any affiliated British Dressage (BD) shows after “miscommunications” between the centre and the governing body for dressage.

Owner Simon Fry said: “We have sadly parted company with British Dressage. After confirming with British Dressage that we would, as usual, hold our senior training camp in 2015, before proceeding to book all the equipment.

“Not long after confirmation it transpired that there were also two other camp venues booked in the Northern region around the same time. Having then spoken to British Dressage again, it seemed that there had been a miscommunication and the camp had been taken away from us.”

Aike Grange has tried to keep British Dressage members in the region happy by nominating to run 12 affiliated competitions a year, but BD has only let them run 10 of the 12 for the last couple of years. So this, along with the camp mix-up has culminated in Frys deciding to opt out of the British Dressage umbrella.

A spokesman for British Dressage said: “After a long and successful association with BD, we are obviously disappointed to lose Frys as a venue, but understand and respect their reasons for deciding not to continue. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the team at Aike Grange Stud for their tremendous support and contribution to the sport over the years.”

British Dressage members were saddened by its loss of another superb venue, but felt that the Northern region could probably cope with two camps due to the large area that the Northern region covers.

The Yorkshire area has lost several good venues over the years, not just for British Dressage but British Eventing and British Showjumping, along with a local point to point course, maybe we as members of whichever discipline we compete at, should be going to the governing bodies to show support for these venues and hosts because without them, we will shortly have nowhere to go within our local area.

Likewise, it is good to go to other competition venues locally to show your support in order to keep them viable, otherwise we end up with one venue that can’t cope with demand. The unaffiliated venues also need support because without the “grassroots” where would you begin you and your horses affiliated career and competition training?

It only costs a phone call or a letter to governing bodies to show your support for the venues or just a verbal thank you to an unaffiliated host to make them feel it’s worth the effort, otherwise we may lose more venues.