With a temperature in the 30’s at Goulburn today, it’s hard to believe that two years ago this event was battling weather conditions of a very different kind – the white, fluffy stuff called snow. That year the organisers had to ship in trucks of gravel just to get the horses into the property but in the past two years the Lynton Estate, where the event is held, not only has the weather changed but so too has the entrance.
This event, one of the oldest in NSW, is run across two properties, Lynton (owned by Alan Cardy) and Breamar House (owned by Anne Poidevin) and the entrance via Lynton is now heralded by stone walls, landscaped areas and smart new flags.
This is the event that everyone heads to in the lead up to the Australian International 3 Day Event as a good pipe-opener and also to contest the NSW State Championships. The international classes have run here for 12 years and the organising committee is, well.....organised, with Neil and Georgina Kennedy at the helm. They need to be as there is a lot going on; CCI classes are run at 1*, 2* and 3* plus a CIC1*, 2* and 3* and at National level there are three divisions of EvA105 and EVA95.
Do my ears look big in this? One of the cutest sights in the parking area at Lynton today
Today the CCI classes completed their dressage and Tim Boland currently leads the Baxter Boots CCI3* on Napoleon on a score of 47.30. We talked to Tim at the end of the day
Tim Boland
In the Rocky Hill Sand & Soil CCI2* Katie Roots and Friday Street lead the field on a score of 46.60 while Victorian rider Emily McQueen heads the Bucas Rugs CCI1* on Riddick with a score of 45.30. Emily has only recently started to ride Riddick, owned by Jo Furphy, and she has relocated to Merrijig where Jo runs Van Eyk Horses
The CIC1* and CIC2* also got underway today with the first half of the riders in these classes getting underway. Currently Simon Tainsh riding Vengeance is leading the Coprice CIC2* on a score of 46.70 ahead of his friend and fellow Victorian Andrew Cooper on Toronto and Sophie Adams on Mercator du Ry while Jye Thurgate leads the Roses Cafe CIC1* riding My Caballo on 48.20
The famous Lynton Lane Crossing awaits the first cross country riders tomorrow (above) and riders working in for the rest of the dressage classes, also taking place tomorrow
