Australian Interschool Equestrian Championships

 During the school holidays Abby Douch, Year 7 and Shelley Kleven, Year 8 and represented NSW at the 2018 Australian Interschool Equestrian Championships hosted by Australian Interschool Equestrian Championships and Equestrian Victoria at Werribee Equestrian Centre, Victoria.

Abby riding Rainwood Park Melaleuca competed in the Secondary Working Hunter, a three phase competition and placed 3^rd in Led, 9^TH in rider and 12^th in the jumping phase.  These scores then placed Abby 8^th in the overall Open Secondary Working Hunter National Championship. Abby was also one of the 4^th highest scoring NSW riders and subsequently a member of the NSW scoring team to help NSW take out the overall Secondary Show Horse Section National Championship.

Abby also loaned her other horse Rosegate High Alto to a Western Australian rider for the event to allow them to compete and that combination took out 13^th place overall representing WA in the Secondary Showhorse.

Shelley Kleven riding Amaranda Moet competed in both Dressage and Combined Training. On Moet Shelley placed 6^th in the Open Novice Freestyle Dressage, 3^rd in the Intermediate (Year 7-9) 2.2 Novice Dressage and 12^th in the 2.3 Intermediate (Year 7-9) Novice Dressage.  These scores then also placed Shelley 8^th overall in the Intermediate Secondary Novice Dressage Championship which is quite a feat for a pony against the larger horses.

Shelley then rode her second qualified horse Neversfelde Jinx and took out 7^th in the Open Elementary Freestyle Dressage and 8^th in the Open 3.3 Elementary Dressage.

Both riders and support crew/s thoroughly enjoyed the trip and are already looking forward to hopefully qualifying for 2019.