The riders, and indeed organisers of such events, have to deal with what have become very busy school holiday schedules: Pony Club, Interschools and discipline specific events such as the Dressage Nationals.<\/p>\n
\u201cInterschools has exploded which is brilliant and that\u2019s a good deal due to the efforts of Penny Rose, Shane\u2019s Mum,\u201d explains Jenny Carroll, who has always been very involved in youth dressage. Previously she was NSW High Performance Coordinator and the National Youth Development Coordinator. \u201cIt\u2019s a balance between specialising too early and that very Australian approach of getting on and having a go, having a gallop, being brave. It\u2019s fantastic that there are so many opportunities for young riders these days but it\u2019s time for rationalising the calendar. Everyone from Judy Fasher down has spoken about that, and we had the same problem at the National Youth Dressage Championships in Victoria last year. There was an Interschools championships on the same weekend.\u201d![\"NovicePonyWinnerswithAdamReiss\"](\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/NovicePonyWinnerswithAdamReiss.jpg\")
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Novice Pony Winners with one of the judges, Adam Reiss<\/em><\/p>\n But you possibly get the more serious dressage enthusiasts riding here?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cThe qualifications have gone up the last couple of years, and I think that\u2019s correct because we want them to be realistic in knowing where they are in the world in terms of their standard. I\u2019ve taken two tours overseas. The whole point was that we had kids jumping up levels all the time, saying they had won on 51%. When we went to the European Championships and saw that you couldn\u2019t even get into the junior events, unless you had about 72%, let alone the freestyles, then they could see that that was the benchmark. I think giving them the opportunity to compete overseas would be great. A lot of senior riders go and do that just before the Olympics, and it\u2019s an intimidating thing. Doing it early would take the later shock out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n What development opportunities are available at the moment for young riders?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cWith the funding changes that happened last year with the Olympics coming up, the young riders did some of their own fund raising. Libby Hulin from NSW was the main driver behind a ball that they ran last year at the CDI for the young rider squad, and Victorian riders also held fund raising events. There have been lots of negotiations over the last 18 months, and changes are still going on to develop a better sponsorship model and development programme. It\u2019s not always money though. It\u2019s also opportunities; events like this, exposure, good judges, protocol days, advice on management of their horses, mental training. Realistically a lot of them will be on schoolmasters which is a great opportunity, but the child\u2019s job is then to work out how to improve their score, how to ride better, not to be forcing the horse beyond its capability, and have tactics for riding a test.\u201d<\/p>\n One of Dressage NSW\u2019s vice presidents, and A level judge Sue Cunningham, was the technical delegate for the event. We got talking about the guidance that can be given to young riders, and Sue had the following suggestion, \u201cThere\u2019s a rider mark in the tests. I\u2019d like to see a different structure in the collective marks for the young riders. Because there is such a disparity in the quality of horses, I think that some of the children on perhaps less expressive horse, are super riders. They get a real\u00a0tune out of those horses, and I think the rider mark should actually carry more weight, otherwise it\u2019s just going to become an elitist sport. There was some really clear communication, and harmonious riding out there today. There were some tests that weren\u2019t so special, but the riders were doing all the right things and were absolutely on the right path.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would also love to see some of our young riders have the opportunity to go overseas simply because there\u2019s a variety of horses to ride, there\u2019s a variety of trainers, there are more events for them to participate in, and evaluate their skills, and see where they fit; more knowledge is always helpful. They have to go overseas; they have to stay there for a while, they have to see it, and feel it, and they have to know where they stand in the world, and they can come home with renewed interest and enthusiasm. In Australia it\u2019s a small community and an outrageously expensive hobby, and unfortunately there\u2019s just not enough money to go around.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the Olympic Games is a great motivator. They\u2019ll all watch it and be inspired. We need that in Australia. Overseas they have constant input and are fed energy, and fed competitions. Here we have to make it ourselves. I think this event is a stepping-stone, and as a national event I think it has a lot of kudos. If you do well here, you know you\u2019re on a good path. When you see the young riders, clearly a lot of them are really talented, and they need as much help as they can, to get where they want to go so I think this event is an important one and it\u2019s important enough to travel around Australia. It\u2019s wonderful. This committee hasn\u2019t organised the event before, and they volunteered, and have done a great job. We\u2019ve had a lot of FEI classes today, and it\u2019s interesting to see how the riders coming along, their strengths and weaknesses and some of these tests are quite hard. I think it\u2019s our responsibility to keep running events like this and supporting our future.\u201d<\/p>\n One dressage rider who felt the same responsibility was Mary Houghton. Organising the event with partner-in-crime Jo Gunn, I asked Mary what had motivated her to take on this often-times thankless role. \u201cI don\u2019t have kids, but I do have a horse! It\u2019s an opportunity to support dressage. I think there\u2019s an obligation to give back to the sport. If people don\u2019t volunteer, we don\u2019t have a sport. The youth are the future so we want to support them in riding to a high standard.\u201d Organisers: Jo Gunn, Averill Langtry and Mary Houghton<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cJo and I have worked together for the last three years at local dressage club level, but this is our first national event. We\u2019ve been organising it for quite a few months, but the last few weeks has been crazy. I\u2019ve got two horses at home that haven\u2019t been ridden for two weeks. I think it has gone really well. There has been little fires to put out behind the scenes, but that\u2019s inevitable. From a competitors perspective, I think it has run very smoothly, everything has been to time, the results have been getting out and presentations are happening to time.\u201d<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t just the event organisers who had come from club level dressage. There were also plenty of events sponsored by local institutions such as Galston Equestrian Club, Central Coast Dressage Association, Young Dressage, Sydney Dressage and Warringah Dressage Club.<\/p>\n Although there were no overseas judges at this event, Adam Reiss perhaps comes close. A native German, he was one of three interstate judges to lend their services to the weekend. I asked him what he thought of the combinations he had seen.<\/p>\n \u201cI judged the FEI junior rider and elementary today, and the FEI young rider and novice yesterday. I think the standard is quite good. Sometimes the riders could be more accurate. For example, in the pony novice, the riders could use their corners more and prepare better so they don\u2019t throw marks away and create loss of balance for the horse. But they will learn from it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLeg yielding for example, some of the young riders pull on the inside rein, and I think where is the coach to address this? It\u2019s called leg yielding not pull on the inside rein. For me, because I\u2019m from Germany, I disagree a little bit with what the Pony Clubs are doing. It\u2019s just my opinion, but I would like to see more emphasis on the basics, correctness of the aids, seat influence, leg aids, not necessary all these games. Fun you can have somewhere else. As a child at a riding school, there needs to be discipline and structure. I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s enough of it. When I grew up it was strict and I think you need to be. You don\u2019t wake up and think, I will not ride today. You have to ride.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, I have been 20 years in Australia now, and it is definitely better.\u201d<\/p>\n The standard of riding really has improved in the young rider ranks. I didn\u2019t see any yanking in the mouth or temper tantrums when things didn\u2019t go to plan either. Amy Reilly, Edwina Hutton-Potts and Grace Kay were the three riders in the KEA Horse Training Intermediate 1, and each one was just lovely to watch. I sat down to find out more about them.\u00a0 Edwina and Heathmont Echo<\/em><\/p>\n EDWINA<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI started showing when I was eight years old until recently, but not so much in the last two years. I\u2019m 21 now. My horse Heathmont Echo, is 14 years old, and was gelded early 2013, and I\u2019ve owned him since October the same year. We started in Medium and did our first small tour start last February. We did the Aachen Challenge last year and made the final. He got the award for best horse because he was beautiful for everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI train with Robbie and Ali Soster of Robali Equestrian and I\u2019ve trained with them since 2009 (although it was David who got the job of warming Edwina up for the Inter 1). They\u2019ve been pushing for me to move into dressage from the time I started with them. Finally I gave in! I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m in third year Uni doing a Bachelor of Commerce with a management major, but I think I might do another degree. I\u2019m tempted to get into physio actually. I don\u2019t want to be at a desk all day!\u201d Grace and Karingal Jamirqui<\/em><\/p>\n GRACE<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI just have Karingal Jamirqui here for the small tour because I\u2019m too old to do anything else! I\u2019m 21 but 22 at the end of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n I was watching the three of you warming up and you all looked so lovely\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cYeah everyone\u2019s doing really well and there are some nice horses and the riders are starting to ride really nicely. It\u2019s very encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n And you were all so close with your scores\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI had little mistakes. It was a bit frustrating, he felt really flat today and I\u2019m not really used to riding him like that. Normally he just sits and comes up, and I have to contain everything but today… but he was well behaved so that\u2019s all we can ask of him.\u201d<\/p>\n Which lower level horses couldn\u2019t you bring, you old thing?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cWe have EBI Sorrento, Maggie and Julie Hitchcock\u2019s warmblood. He\u2019s six and he went out last weekend at Tarree at the regional festival and got all four of his tests over 70% and novice and elementary champion. He\u2019s working his socks off, and I\u2019m really happy with him. He\u2019s out at the\u00a0moment though having a \u201cbaby break\u201d, getting his little brain together.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI also have another six-year-old mare I\u2019m eventing and I also started eventing Faberge. It\u2019s hard to know what to do with him. He\u2019s training small tour at home, jumping 1.30 metres and we\u2019re just getting our pre novice qualifiers. It\u2019s so much fun. I have a three-year-old colt that I just broke in as well. He\u2019s really sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still at Uni. This is my last year. I took last year off as I trained overseas a lot, which was really really helpful, especially with the young horses. I have a better understanding of where I\u2019m going with them. I could really see the progression over there. I might look at going back overseas next year, but it just depends what I do with the horses coming through. I\u2019ve got some really nice ones and some lovely clients. So I have some decisions to make but it\u2019s a good rock and a good hard place! I\u2019ve also got my wonderful sponsors Trailrace and Equipe.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJamirqui will go Grand Prix. Most of it is there, we\u2019ve got our ones and passage. I just want to tidy up his piaffe a bit. He\u2019s got the baby steps, it\u2019s just not 13 steps on the spot! I feel like I\u2019ve been doing small tour on him for ages but he\u2019s just a horse that needs to keep competing.\u201d<\/p>\n (You can catch up with Amy Reilly in our Saddleworld Rising Star feature on page 82) Inter 1 riders: Grace, Edwina and Amy<\/em><\/p>\n Queensland Year 12 student Elloise Devlin has become a familiar face amongst the ribbons, and she was up the front during the presentations more than once in both high and low levels, including winning the Galston Equestrian Club Elementary 3:2 with over 70%, and second in both the Mulawa Performance FEI Under 25 Intermediate 2 and Mulawa Performance FEI Under 25 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n \u201cThis weekend I rode the Elementary and Medium on Brimstone Florente and the Grand Prix and Inter 2 on Brimstone Anakiwa. They both travelled down here really well and settled in really well\u2026 eventually. They\u2019re both a little bit like stress-heads because they\u2019re not stabled at home. They\u2019re half brothers and we bred them both. Sam (GP) is 12 and the other is six.\u201d\u00a0 How do they compare with each other being brothers?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re both very similar in their calm nature. That comes form the mare. She\u2019s got a beautiful temperament. The young one\u2019s a bit quirky and cheeky because of his Dad who is Furst Tyme (Nicole Tough\u2019s horse). The older one is by Anamour.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve just come straight from State Interschools at Toowoomba. I finished school and we left the day after. I think I\u2019m spending about two days at home in the holidays. We\u2019ll head off tomorrow for the two day trip home.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year of school. What are your plans for next year?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m taking a gap year and going to Europe to train. I want to go to a few people, but to start I\u2019ve been talking to Ton de Ridder as I\u2019ve already had a few lessons with him, and he has basically said it\u2019s all sorted, just give me your dates, so it\u2019s brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n Elloise is sponsored by Prydes EasiFeed, GiddyUpGirl Australia and Horseland Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n Another lovely young rider at the lower levels was 21-year-old Jessica Clark on Remember Me. Jess took home Central Coast Dressage Association Novice Champion and had good results, including a second place, in the In Conjunction Real Estate Elementary 3:3 as well. Jessica was one of a few riders I spoke to who really have to put in the extra miles, quite literally, to achieve her dressage goals.<\/p>\n \u201cI live at Brighton Le Sands (which is just on the south side of Sydney Airport) but my horses live next to the Ryans in the Hunter Valley. They used to be in Centennial Park but they didn\u2019t like it so much there. I make it up there about four times a week. It\u2019s about a two-hour drive one way. I have two horses in work and a two-year-old sister to Rinaldo plus his Mum, who is in foal. My horse is six and we bought him as a foal through Auction of the Stars. He was never meant to get this big.\u201d (he\u2019s 17:3hh and Jess is a tiny little thing)\u00a0 \u201cI train with Heath (Ryan). He\u2019s the boss; he\u2019s the one who screams at me. We always say, if he\u2019s not screaming, there\u2019s something wrong! I was watching some of the tests today and thought the competition was going to be hard, but I don\u2019t get nervous, I just try to be really focused and try to be really accurate and confident for the horse.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI work at the ATC doing mounted security at Randwick and Rosehill races. I really like it. We also do social engagements with the horses. I tend to find if you\u2019re nice to people, they tend to do what you want. If you say they look nice, they forget the fact that you\u2019re kicking them out! I\u2019ve been doing that since the beginning of the year. It gives me time to ride my own horses too.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was little I really liked jumping, but I fell off a few to many times so Mum said it\u2019s either dressage or nothing. I\u2019ve been riding since I was about six and competitive dressage<\/p>\n since about 12 years old. Mum, Dad and Jas my sister are all interested. We\u2019re almost always at a competition together. It\u2019s definitely a family thing. I couldn\u2019t do it without them.\u201d<\/p>\n Seventeen-year-old Sydney Evans from Sydney\u2019s Northern Beaches was collecting ribbons all over the place. First and third in the Advanced tests, plus first in both Mediums, led her to Champion in both levels as well as Reserve FEI Young Rider Champion, just a few of the successes she had in the 12 tests she rode with three horses over the weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing weekend!\u201d<\/p>\n You sound shocked!<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI am shocked! For a pony to win\u2026 I\u2019ve got a little 14.1hh pony, Dara Park Tequila Sunrise, who\u2019s just turned 10. I\u2019ve had him since he was three, and he just won the open classes against all the horses.” \u201cMy schoolmaster Belcam Geldof was awarded Reserve Champion in the FEI Young Rider, and I have a client\u2019s little horse called Biscuit (or Fiorealainn Sir Richie if you look on the program) who scored over 60% in the novice tests and over 70% in the Prelim so it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been competing since I was 10, riding since I was two. My Mum used to be a three-star eventer, but had an accident so she turned to dressage and I just followed her. She\u2019s taught me so much. I\u2019ve been training with Lizzie Wilson-Fellows for about six weeks now and she\u2019s been really helpful. I\u2019m based in Duffys Forrest and she comes once a fortnight for about six of us.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI left school last year and am doing the horses full time now. I just got my licence so I can travel around teaching and riding. Dressage is my thing. I can\u2019t jump at all, I\u2019m terrible! My 18-year-old sister Jordan lives overseas, and has been there since she was 15. I was going to go, but I think I can do it from here. I have a good base here, and I have good sponsors and lots of clients. I love it. We don\u2019t own a property but live in a little house on Collaroy Plateau and our own and clients\u2019 horses are agisted. So, we get a bit of both worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n Sydney is sponsored by Rosehip Vital and Horseland Terrey Hills.<\/p>\n Brianna Cartwright took out the Dressage NSW Elementary Champion on her six-year-old mare, Pacific Fable. The last time I spoke to Brianna she was about to make the transition from ponies to full size.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, it\u2019s gone well. We bought the mare when she was 18 months old from Nichola Paff at Taree Equestrian Centre. I was the first one to ride her after the breakers. She won the Novice Champion last year at this event, so hopefully we\u2019ll keep going up the levels like that!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m doing my HSC this year and still ride one of the ponies, but Fable is my main focus and I\u2019m loving bringing her up the levels with the help of my aunty, Eva Wright.\u201d<\/p>\n Brianna is sponsored by Mitavite and Horseland Central Coast.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t all about the girls during these Nationals with some of the lads putting in some great results. Fifteen-year-old Angus Fripp from Berry, NSW won the Central Coast Dressage Association Novice 2:2 on his homebred five-year-old Foxwood Remy, doing most of his training on his own. \u201cI\u2019ve been riding dressage for about five to six years. It\u2019s the only type of riding I\u2019ve done. I took it up because my nan Maxine Fripp used to ride Small Tour dressage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe used to live on her farm and I would help out. Then a neighbour lent us a pony, which I rode for two or three years. That pony and Remy are the only two horses I\u2019ve ridden. I only started riding Remy last year.\u201d<\/p>\n You cracked 70%! Well done!<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty surprised! The first test was a bit of a disaster. I got 66% and I\u2019m happy with that but it didn\u2019t go so well but the second test was good.\u201d<\/p>\n And when you\u2019re not riding?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m at school and I work in a cafe two or three times a week, and I do volunteer tutoring at the PCYC. The rest of the time I\u2019m riding.\u201d<\/p>\n Angus wasn\u2019t the only rider who impressed me with their hard work and diversified outlook on life.<\/p>\n Aidan Hartley is 22 this year and rode 13-year-old Warlock\u2019s Spell in the Dressage Qld Prix St Georges, an accomplishment that almost wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was lame leading up to this event so I\u2019ve only really had him back in work since half way through last week. I cancelled his clipping because I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d be coming!\u201d Aidan with Warlock’s Spell and his parents, Brett and Rozanne<\/em><\/p>\n Your horse has had an unconventional career path\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI was having lessons off various people then stumbled upon Sue (Cunningham) at Moore Park where I was having lessons about once a fortnight. She was a guest clinician. Sue helped us buy Warlock. He used to be one of Heath Harris\u2019s trick horses, but he got too big. He\u2019s Percheron\/ Quarter horse. I don\u2019t know why that combination happened, but it\u00a0did! When we first got him he knew Prelim dressage and could do tricks. He could stand on pedestals and do Spanish Walk. He would even try to walk up steps.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe bought him for both Mum and me to share. He was brilliant when we got him and then he went through a bad patch. Mum rode him for about 18 months, but where we kept him, they fed him up and he started to spin and threw Mum off and she ended up in hospital. Then he started tossing everyone off. We didn\u2019t really know what we were doing because he was our first horse.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI used to jump him up to 90cm, but we put him out for a spell once and he stuck his front foot down a rabbit hole and did a suspensory ligament. He\u2019s quite a heavy horse so it\u2019s too risky to jump him. I decided to stick to dressage for a while and then you realise what a challenge it is, it\u2019s not as easy as it looks, and it takes a lot of effort. Aiming for that perfection was really interesting to me. We\u2019ve reached Prix St Georges from Prelim in about three years. I remember the second test I ever rode on him had a lengthened trot across the diagonal, and he did that but kept going! But I always looked at the higher level riders with their tails, and I thought I want to do that. Today was only my second-ever Prix St Georges. I was really pushing to do that test because I\u2019m too old for everything else, and it would be the last year I can do small tour level at this comp.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow I just want to consolidate him at this level and we might try to get to Victoria at the end of the year for the Aachen challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n Aidan is another young rider who has a formidable work ethic and sense of discipline.<\/p>\n \u201cWe live at Leichhardt (in Sydney\u2019s inner west) and the horse is kept up at Tennyson which makes it about a five hour round trip. I try to get there about four times a week, fitting it in between Uni where I\u2019m studying mechatronics engineering at UNSW.\u201d<\/p>\n Smart boy!<\/p>\n Not everyone had the Nationals planned to perfection. There were riders who had to rely on their good training, and belief in self and horse. It could be argued that 20-year-old Lewis Newton from Western Australia was one of those! \u201cMy first test ever was in Advanced at Bowral and then two at Clarendon and now I\u2019m here! I was nervous going into the 5:3 today because I hadn\u2019t read the test until last night and there\u2019s half pass left, change and then half pass right. I\u2019ve never done that before, so we had a go at it in the test! The change was a bit short but through. He\u2019s such a quiet horse. He\u2019s eight-years-old.\u201d<\/p>\n You took the long way round from WA?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cI moved to Geelong last year and went to Marcus Oldham College to do my diploma in Equine Business Management. I finished there in December and moved to Mittagong to work for Matthew Dowsley and Rodney Martin. In February I bought Ferdinand off Matthew and did my first ever test in April. Before that I was just riding around, Pony Club and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n Why dressage?<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cThe horses are so beautiful and powerful and it takes a lot of skill. It seemed hard and I wanted a bit of a challenge. I\u2019ve been getting lessons every day from Matthew and Rodney. We were looking for young horses but I was already riding Ferdinand, so Matthew offered to sell him to me, after long discussions with my non-horsey parents, we bought him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d love to do the Aachen Challenge at the end of the year but I\u2019m not sure if we\u2019ll be ready. We need to get a bit better at Advanced first although we\u2019re getting all the Prix St Georges work at home. It\u2019s just putting in a test and getting it to flow.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI really want to thank Matthew and Rodney for all their help\u2026 plus my parents!\u201d<\/p>\n And Lewis is right. Three cheers for all the parents who were everywhere over the weekend in their support crew roles; grooms, drivers, cooks, videoers, sheet collectors, mobile phone answers and all manner of chef d\u2019equipe roles. It wouldn\u2019t happen without you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a lot of talk these days bewailing the decline of youth. They\u2019re all on their devices taking selfies with no life goals but to have their Facebook likes maxed. 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