Equine

A Winning Team

WACOA-Denmark equine students Kasey James, Nell Bouffler, Chontelle Bock, Shahna Davis, Willow Donohue, Ella Cameron, Dakota Dalton, Matilda Steinhoff, Misha Utber and Alyssa Marson recently competed at the Narrogin Equine Intercollege event. 

The event is open to students attending one of the West Australian Agricultural Colleges with this year Narrogin, Harvey and Denmark competing. The event tests the students’ skills in show jumping, dressage, games and in-hand presentation. Students competed as individuals and in teams of two and four with points counting towards overall College score. With the highest averaged College score winning the overall trophy.

In the lead up to the event the students were busy washing and plaiting their horses, memorising their dressage tests and having a bit of fun with group demos on the finer points of handling techniques. All that work paid off on the day with comments from the dressage judge on how well presented and polite they were. 

It was great to see the students giving each other encouragement and helping each other out, showing good team spirit and sportsmanship. It was also a pleasure to see students handle their horses sympathetically with positive encouragement, helping build their horse’s confidence and partnership which is so important when riding horses. 

The support from parents and Jenny Scahill was also greatly appreciated and certainly helped with the smooth running of the day. 

The Narrogin Equine Intercollege event is always a highlight for the equine students. All the students had a good time and the day culminated with numerous individual and team placings and Denmark winning the overall college trophy. Results from the day included:

Overall College:

1st WACOA Denmark

Overall Teams:

1st place Team of 4 (Kasey James, Matilda Steinhoff, Alyssa Marson, Dakotah Dalton)

1st place Team of 2 (Chontelle Bock, Shahna Davis)

2nd Place Team of 2 (Ella Cameron, Willow Donohoe)

Overall Individuals:

1st place Shahna Davis

2nd place Willow Donohoe

Showjumping:

75cm 1st place Willow Donohoe, 2nd place Matilda Steinhoff

50cm 1st place Shahna Davis, 4th place Ella Cameron

In-hand presentation: 

1st place Ella Cameron, 4th place Kasey James

Thank you to Narrogin staff for organising and running the event, Jenny Scahill and the parents who assisted transporting the horses to the event as well as during the day and congratulations to the students. A wide range of photos from the day can be found on the College Facebook page.