Equestrian

Horsemanship 

Best wishes to Zoe Weinberg who travels to Adelaide with her family and horses this week to compete at the Adelaide Show.

Our Equestrian Captain, Georgia Hodgetts, has continued to pursue her competitive endeavours balancing Year 12 with her co-curricular riding passion. Here is a little update from Georgia about her year so far!

Most of my weekends are very different to most Year 12s. I normally spend my Fridays travelling great lengths as far as Albury, NSW, to compete or train April and Melli. Traveling and riding them is a great stress relief away from Year 12.

Sometimes these weekends away are not successful at all, but then sometimes they are. Luckily at Albury (Border Districts Showjumping Championships), Melli came home with a win in the 90cm in competition with 70 others. We also traveled to Werribee for a Nationals training day on a Saturday with Melli and then traveled down to Geelong to compete on April. In the metre class April came home with a 2nd and then went on to win the ‘Off the Track Award’. The ‘Off the Track Award’ is presented to the best performing Ex Racehorse and April was able to gain this award even with a one day start compared to others who had two days.

During the winter, we also had Squad trainings every few weekends. This consisted of Mum traveling with my horses, April and Melli, down to Werribee during the day and then I would drive myself after school. Luckily enough there are breaks in between some of the sessions with Squad which is my study time.

We have the ‘Victorian State Titles’, ‘Interschool Nationals’ and ‘Australian Showjumping Championships’ just around the corner and I am very excited to be able to compete in all of them. 

ANDREA REIDEL-CARRISON CLINIC 21st July & 15th September 2018

Andrea Reidel-Carrison will be running another Intensive Dressage Clinic at our Equestrian Centre on the 15th September 2018. This clinic is filling fast so please send your entries in as soon as possible.

The Hamilton and Alexandra College Equestrian Centre will be hosting the following events during Semester 2, 2018. The entry forms are on our website and attached to this newsletter. We hope to see you all there!

THAC & Geelong Dressage Club Interschool Dressage Competition Saturday 6th October 2018 (Official Equestrian Victorian Qualifying Event)

Western District Interschool Equestrian Competition Sunday 4th  November 2019 (Official Equestrian Victoria Interschool Qualifying Event)

Our community greatly appreciates regular updates of results of competition and the achievements of our students in their Equestrian sport! Please make sure you email me at ateboekhorst15@hamiltoncollege.vic.edu.au or let Georgia Hodgetts, our Equestrian Captain, know what you have been doing and include as many photos as you like so that we can all celebrate and promote equestrian sport, your efforts and accomplishments for 2018.

Please make sure you join our THAC Equestrian Facebook page for regular updates and photos of all our Equestrian endeavours. Updates and entry forms for competitions are also posted on this page so make sure you keep up to date!

For updates, news, Calendar, entry forms, results and more GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES:

Victorian Equestrian Interschool Series:

http://www.veis.com.au/calendar

http://www.veis.com.au/series-summaries

Equestrian Victoria:

http://www.vic.equestrian.org.au/content/interschools

http://www.vic.equestrian.org.au/Events/calendar

Please note any horses who are regularly coming to and from the Hamilton and Alexandra College Equestrian Centre must be up to date with vaccinations for Tetanus and Strangles and records of these will be maintained to ensure the biosecurity of the centre. You must also notify the Director of Horsemanship immediately if your horse has been in or originated from Queensland or Northern New South Wales. Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions.

Amanda te Boekhorst