Cave ne Cadas

At Cave ne Cadas everyone is welcome to enjoy this amazing sport. We're a small association which gives us a friendly, family-like feeling. Our active members come together weekly to ride together.

Impression of our activities 

Weekly:horseriding on Tuesdays
Monthly: activities
Twice a year: general members meeting (GMM)

Outside of our weekly riding lessons we have many more activities to offer, such as riding outside, bowling, having drinks together and SO's. SO's are student competitions organised by different student horse riding organisations in the Netherlands. You can ride dressage and eventually qualify yourself for jumping. These competitions take place over the weekend, so you stay the night. This means a nice party or other activities will be organised!

If you've become interested in our association, you can contact the board by sending an email to info@cavenecadas.nl to book a private lesson. Hopefully see you soon!

Establishment

It all started around September 20, 1980. An international student concours was organised by a student association from Caen. The concours was held in Cabourf, subsidised by the bank Societé Generale in France. This concours was reason to establish the student horse riding association of Tilburg. In Cabourg we enjoyed the nice weather during the day, the beautiful hippodrome with good quality horses, and an excursion to Calvados. Apart from a group of Dutch riders and supporters, other countries were also represent. We would go for walks on the beach together and have a lot of fun after some beers and wines. I really wanted to visit more international student conrours during my time as a student. The only important thing was to find the right circuit to get invitations for these kind of international coucours. The only problem I had was that I was lacking horse riding experience, and there was no student association near Tilburg where I could start riding more seriously. The establishment of this association became a clear goal. With the help of some friends and the board of a national student horse riding organisation, we managed to establish Cave ne Cadas within a week. On October 10, 1981, we started with 20 members at manege 't Laar, where we could ride for only fl 10,- per lesson.

In Cabourg genoten we overdag van het mooie weer, het prachtige hypodrome met kwalitatief goede rijpaarden, en van de excursie naar Calvados. Naast een grote en zeer gezellige groep van Nederlandse ruiters en supporters, waren uiteraard ook andere landen aanwezig met wie ’s nachts na veel wijn en plezier nog strandwandelingen werden gemaakt. Het kriebelde om meerdere internationale studentenconcoursen, voorzien van dit soort uitspattingen, veelvuldig tijdens mijn studententijd te bezoeken. Het enige belangrijke was om in het circuit te komen om voor zulk soort internationale studentenconcoursen te worden uitgenodigd.

Hierbij had ik echter het probleem dat het mij aan paardrij-ervaring ontbrak en dat er geen studentenvereniging in heel Brabant was waar je kon leren paardrijden. Het opzetten van een studentenrijvereniging lag dus vrij snel voor de hand. Met hulp van enkele vrienden en het bestuur van de overkoepelende organisatie van Nederlandse Studentenrijverenigingen, de SNS, was binnen een week de oprichting van Cave ne Cadas een feit. Op 10 oktober begonnen we met 20 leden in manege “’t Laar” bij Jan van Gils, waar we voor fl 10,- per les konden paardrijden.

(Roeland Reichert, co-founder of Cave ne Cadas)