must, after presenting horse to judge, lead the horse around a set of cones in a small triangle at the walk then continue onto a larger triangle at the Trot. SOQ My Sweet Scenario led by Emily Stewart placed 1st under both judges in a class of five. After lunch the first of 2 groups of ‘English’ riding commenced. Firstly the Hunter Under Saddle (HUS) which had separate classes for Amateur Senior Horse, Senior Youth, Select Amateur, Senior Horse, Junior Amateur and 3yr old Made In China with owner/handler Janeen McRobert. classes. Classes varied with 3-6 riders competing in the classes held. In these classes the horses are ridden around the arena and are asked to trot and then canter in both directions then perform a rein back. Chips Sweet Rosalie, ridden by Sharon Currie, won both the Junior Amateur and the 3yr old classes under both judges. Last for day was the Hunt Seat Equitation (HSE) which is a rider class. Again classes varied from 1-5 riders all having a go at being judged on correctness of pattern ridden, and rider performance. In the Senior Youth classes judging varied with Courtney Holden riding RQH Jiminy Cricket for 1st place by Peter Bellden and Nick Balchin riding Winderadeen Cee A Passer selected by Joanne as her 1st choice. Sunday was the start of the western ridden disciplines including Reining (fast patterns), Trail (obstacle course), western Riding, Western Pleasure and western horsemanship (rider class) Although not a huge number of entries in the reining events it was exciting to watch the riders put their horses through spins in both directions, then doing small circles and then large circles of loping up to galloping and sliding stops. Readies Lil Whizzel won the Senior Horse Reining. Western Horse riding is similar to the reining classes although there are lots of flying changes at lope for the horse to perform, Karen Nicoletto and Heez Zippin Hot won the Senior Horse Class. The Trail classes, in which riders must take their horses over obstacles without knocking poles or refusing to go over the bridge, was well attended. The Senior Horse Trail had a massive class of 15 contenders – well done to Jadien Thompson with Dakota Zulu Lisimba winning under both Peter and Joanne, and Courtney Holden coming 2nd with RQH Jiminy Cricket. The western horsemanship is the rider performance class where the rider must jog and lope a pattern and is judged on his or her riding. The Select Amateur group had the largest class with 7 competing. Both Peter and Joanne selected Lesley Elder riding YLS Foolish Pleasure as their 1st choice in this class. Last classes of the day were the Western Pleasure which shows off the horses jogging (slow trot) and loping (slow canter) ability. This is done on the rail (horses are ridden along the fence line around the arena) while the announcer calls the gait to be ridden. The most contended class was the Senior Horse in which 8 riders participated with Peter selecting Cee the Sensation ridden by Rae Hare as his 1st choice and Joanne selecting Winderadeen Gay Bar Mickey ridden by Paula Balgera. Well done to everyone who competed on Saturday and Sunday and to the Club and committee for running this event. Thank you to Judges Peter Bellden and Joanne Gregory for coming over and sharing the weekend with the competitors. A special Jordyn Dagnell in the Showmanship class with Charary Power Of One.