By Jon F 

After waiting for almost 6 months, equestrian competitors around Australia can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Numerous equestrian clubs around the country this weekend held competitions under strict regulations from their respective state governing bodies.  Many were restricted in the numbers allowed, and a plethora of paperwork had to be completed by each competitor prior to arriving at the venue.

We took the opportunity to take most of our horses to a showjumping training day at the Metropolitan Showjumping Club in Adelaide. only 60 competitors wer able to attend, and we were lucky enough to get our entries in early enough.

A competitor at the Metropolitan showjumping training day on the weekend 

I have to say that I’ve never been more excited about going to a training day, but considering we arrived home from Europe over 8 months ago, armed and dangerous with knowledge and a “fire in the belly”, and we’ve had to sit on our hands for that time. Keeping the horses in full work has been a good decision, as they all went really well and we had a total of 15 clear rounds from 4 horses.

For the next month at least, there are competitions every weekend.  All going well, we’ll be back competing as normal very soon, and we can all put the horride equine influenza debacle behind us for good.