Libby Lowery not only won the CCI3* but also the Best Dressed at Trot Up!
The organisers of Sydney International Horse Trials work hard each year to keep improving the event, from Mike Etherington-Smith’s upgrades to the cross country course to the volunteers who put in the hours sanding and painting fences!
The report just produced by the SydIHT committee provides a summary of this year’s event including some fast facts we love. Sadly the very wet weather on cross country day – the day when the best crowds are anticipated – didn’t help to boost this year’s numbers despite some interesting initiatives to garner the attention of the nearby city slickers and get them out to Horsley Park.
Fast Facts
- Spectators: 5,100
- Eventing Riders: 130, Horses: 165
- Showjumping Riders: 162, Horses, 312, Numbers of 3* rounds 1104
- Stables: 260
- Tack Rooms: 39
- Bales of sawdust: 1,497
- Manure removed: 15 Skip Bins
- Pot plants: 185 plus 50 pine trees
- Hours spent painting XC jumps: 40 plus 12 hours of sanding
- Pegs: 2,000
- White baling twine: 7km
- Traders/exhibitors: 27
- Facebook likes: 3,000
- Facebook reach: 60,000
- Twitter: 581 followers
Awards and Winners
- Robert Slade Memorial Trophy Winner and winner Equestrian NSW CCI3* - Libby Lowery and KL Kismet
- Holstein Park Leilani Perpetual Trophy – Highest Placed Mare – Early Days, Makayla Wood
- Rod Winchester Best and Fairest Young Rider – Isabel English
- Mike Callahan’s Groom’s Award – Sarah English
- Freestyler Trophy and winner Tarraleah Park CCI2* - Hayley Frielick and My Happiness
- Over the Top Yards and Greater Sydney World Cup Qualifier – Vicky Roycroft and Congo Z
- Wade Equine Coaches Australian Young Event Horse Championships – Rachel Lee, Amigo
- Birs Equisports Best Dressed Trot Up:
- CCI3* Male, Shaun Dillon – Female, Elizabeth Lowery
- CCI2* Male, Lindsay Honey – Female, Hayley Frielick
- CCI1* Male, Shaun Dillon – Female, Lesley Brodbeck
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