Bits: Showjumping gone, new statue and top comp for Dertell
DESPITE all efforts, this year’s 156th Wangaratta Show won’t have showjumping on the program. “It’s the first time many of us can...
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Sep 13, 20234 min read
Four seasons in one royal show at Adelaide 2023
THE Royal Adelaide Show has been run and won for another year with those who were there from start to finish experiencing all the...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
Big and small contend carriage driving championships
THE Victorian Indoor-Outdoor Carriage Driving Championships were held at Huntly north of Bendigo on the weekend. Organised by the Central...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
Pony clubbers pick right time to make their run up the straight
THE Pony Club Victoria’s Ride to Time final held at Moonee Valley was a huge thrill for the 20 young riders who qualified in trials...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
Amateur owner riders enjoying dressage just for the love of it
MORE and more equestrian disciplines are finding it necessary to provide competitions for their non-professional members. The intent is...
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Sep 13, 20232 min read
Pony crosses filling gap in dressage mount market
ROSSANNE Mason is not only a horse lover but an astute business woman as well. She was one of the first to see the expanding interest in...
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Sep 13, 20234 min read
Bits: Foal ambulance, stolen horse, Brumby plan & Waler dies
THE Victorian Equine Group at Bendigo in Victoria has set up a most important and valuable resource – a foal ambulance. The project was...
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Sep 6, 20234 min read
Volunteer crisis could bring down the sport of equestrian
IT’S easy to go to a big horse event and admire the beauty and talent of the horses, the elegant riders, the enormous size of the fences...
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Sep 6, 20233 min read
Adelaide a joy for those who love a traditional royal show
ADELAIDE still holds on to many of the agricultural features that many royal shows have lost and they are much appreciated by the lovers...
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Sep 6, 20232 min read
After 15 years, interschools showjumping still going strong
THE Interschools Show Jumping series was started in Victoria in 2008 to promote the sport in the school community over courses designed...
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Sep 6, 20232 min read
Bendigo club puts in top effort to win three-phase championships
WHILE the Equestrian Federation of Australia has morphed over the years to focus on the elite level of equestrian sport, it has to a...
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Sep 6, 20232 min read
Werribee becomes dressage central for combined event
DRESSAGE riders have been serenely circling in the Werribee Park arenas at the annual inter-club weekend. It’s a shared format;...
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Sep 6, 20234 min read
Bits: Equine jeweller in finals, Good Old Days news & AGM time
A WOMAN who makes jewellery from the hair of “the special horses in our lives that leave their hoofprints forever on our heart” has made...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
Royal gala lights up the faces of showies in the north
THE Show Horse Council of Victoria responded to the request of many of its members to hold an event in the north of the state with a show...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
Thoroughbreds dominate field at Friends of Werribee event
FANS of the Thoroughbred would have been excited to see more than 200 ex racehorses competing at the Friends of Werribee Park Horse...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
Jodie Mckeone unstoppable as she chases down her dream
AUSTRALIAN carriage driver Jodie Mckeone is living out her dream, claiming the bronze medal in the Grade I class at the FEI Para Driving...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
All levels well catered for at Kadina's Copper Coast show
IT’S been a busy three years for the Kadina Agricultural Society’s “Copper Coast” show in South Australia. Like so many, the Covid...
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Aug 30, 20232 min read
Rockstar crowd turns up for Future Farms open day
WHEN a stud’s open day attracts a crowd big enough to rival a rock concert, you know it’s going to be great. The attention to detail at...
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Aug 30, 20235 min read
Bits: Road users hearing, pony trots and endurance news
ANIMAL Care Australia and Bitless Inc represented the horse community last week at a Victorian Government hearing for the inquiry into...
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Aug 23, 20233 min read
Mount Duneed show was so much fun it will be hard to top
SHOW competitors can be fickle but every now and again an event is run so well that all you hear is laughter, cheers and a unanimous...
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