Carriage driving competition set for Aug. 4 in Woodside Carriage driving competition set for Aug. 4 in Woodside (August 03, 2005)

The Peninsula Carriage Driving Club of Woodside will hold its 11th carriage driving event from Thursday, August 4, through Sunday, August 7, at the Horse Park at Woodside, 3674 Woodside Road.

The event honors the late Henry Boyd, a veterinarian in Marin County, who pioneered combined driving events in Northern California.

The public is invited to attend the free events. Thursday and Friday are dressage events; Saturday is the marathon event, when carriages race on a cross-country course; and Sunday is a cones event, when carriages negotiate a series of obstacles without knocking them down.

The combined driving event benefits Driving for the Disabled, which offers carriage driving for the disabled, and BOK, a therapeutic riding program for handicapped children.

The driving club was founded in 1982. Its members use a wide variety of horses, but predominantly light horses, such as Morgans, Standardbreds and Arabs. Many members have ponies.

For more information, go to henryboydcde.com, or call Ellie Ferrari at 851-3543.

E-mail a friend a link to this story.