Sophia Hill (nee Landy) wins the CCI3*-L and Australian Eventing Young Rider Championship on her off the track thoroughbred, Humble Glory
Racing South Australia will be the title sponsor of the CCI3*-L at the Adelaide Equestrian Festival from 20th – 23rd April 2023
Racing SA has extended and expanded its sponsorship of the Adelaide Equestrian Festival (formerly known as the Australian International 3 Day Event), which incorporates the only CCI5* in the Southern Hemisphere as well as CCI4*-S and CCI3*-L classes
The Racing SA CCI3*-L also incorporates the Bates Young Rider Championship, hotly contested by the up and coming younger stars of Australian eventing. It has been three years since Sam Jeffree, who is hoping to return and contest his first CCI5* this year, was the last rider to win the Young Rider Championship at Adelaide in 2019, while the 2018 winner Sophia Hill (nee Landy) won on board the off the track thoroughbred, Humble Glory.
Sophia and Humble Glory are also aiming to compete at their first CCI5* in Adelaide this year (watch our interview with Sophia here)
The event is back for the first time since the Covid pandemic and is being held in April for the first time ever, from its usual November date, making it the first CCI5* to be contested worldwide on the FEI calendar
The sponsorship by Racing SA is a three-year commitment to the event and Racing SA’s sub brands Thorough Care SA and Racing Careers SA will be on show at a marquee in the event’s marketplace throughout the four days.
“Even though many of the spectators and competitors and involved in the Equestrian Festival have a background in horses, they may not realise there’s so many fulfilling career pathways in the racing industry. So, there’s an opportunity here to educate, and perhaps turn a passion for horses into a career,” said Racing SA’s General Manager of Operations Nick Bawden
Presently 65 per cent of thoroughbreds retire into equestrian and pleasure riding activities.
“Along with celebrating the achievements of the many retired racehorses that are competing at the Festival, this is a chance to showcase all the great aspects of the racing industry. If in turn it also helps get more thoroughbreds into eventing at a grassroots level that can only be a positive.”
Watch cross country videos from the Australian International 3 Day Event 2019 here
