Category: Entries

While it is 3 months until our next event – it’s never too early to look at the do to list for the event.

If you were wondering how an event gets up and running, and you see something that you can help out with – please don’t hesitate to get in contact with Kate (by email or whatever takes your fancy!).

Some of the tasks in the lead up to the event include:

• Assisting with XC course building
• flagging the XC course
• whipper snipping around the XC jumps, dressage arenas, and yards
• decorating the XC course
• laning the XC course where the tracks go past the water jump and into the Cotter Plots so riders don’t go the wrong way!
• moving the sprinklers on the sand arenas (does anyone have a spare sprinkler or two? – big ones, not pathetic little ones!)
• Mid week prior to the event – gathering a team of people to help put the dressage arenas up (luckily we only need to build two – but we like to divide up the warm up arena as it can get a little chaotic in there!) and the letters need to be put around the 3 permanent arenas.

Friday of the event:

• shopping at Costco for all the food for our volunteers – you will need a big car and several people – Lauren and I filled the ute with the two trolley loads and we didn’t get everything!
• putting A-frame signs around the venue
• putting all the rubbish bins out
• collecting the programmes from KwikKopy in Phillip
• cleaning the toilets (someone has to draw the short straw – and thank you to those who have done it in the past!)
• getting all the folders for the dressage judges, show jumping officials and XC jump judges ready
• set up the secretary/officials marquee – all the tables and chairs need to be moved from the shed down into the marquee.
• put the boundary chain around the show jumping rings
• help the SJ course builders with the two show jumping rings

The event itself requires many helpers – dressage pencillers, marshalls, pole pickers, gate marshals, XC jump judges, score sheet collectors to name but a few.  Please put your thinking caps on and consider friends, colleagues, horse fanatics or family members who can help out with any of those tasks.

THEN there’s the painful task of packing it all up again!  Sadly we don’t have a public holiday on the Monday – so we will try and do as much as we can on the Sunday afternoon – assuming we have any puff left!

So please don’t be shy – we are a slightly crazy but nonetheless awesome group of people, but don’t let that put you off!

With 31 days to go it’s probably a good time to look at the do to list for the event.

If you were wondering how an event gets up and running, and you see something that you can help out with – please don’t hesitate to get in contact with me! (by email or whatever takes your fancy!)

Some of the tasks in the lead up to the event include:

• a team of people to help put the dressage arenas up (luckily we only need to build two – but we like to divide up the warm up arena as it can get a little chaotic in there! and the letters need to be put around the 3 permanent arenas.
• flag and number the XC course
• whipper snip around the XC jumps
• decorate the XC course
• lane the XC course where the tracks go past the water jump and into the Cotter Plots so riders don’t go the wrong way!
• moving the sprinklers on the sand arenas (does anyone have a spare sprinkler or two? – big ones, not pathetic little ones!)
• collecting the winners rugs from Horseland and taking them to the embroidery shop in Fyshwick, then collecting them once they’ve finished and bringing to the event.

Friday 15th March:

• shopping at Costco for all the food for our volunteers – you will need a big car and several people – Lauren and I filled the ute with the two trolley loads and we didn’t get everything!
• putting all the signs around the venue
• putting all the rubbish bins out
• collecting the programmes from KwikKopy in Phillip
• cleaning the toilets (someone has to draw the short straw – and thank you to those who have done it in the past!)
• getting all the folders for the dressage judges, show jumping officials and XC jump judges ready
• set up the secretary/officials marquee – all the tables and chairs need to be moved from the shed down into the marquee.
• put the boundary chain around the show jumping rings
• help the SJ course builders with the two show jumping rings

THEN there’s the painful task of packing it all up again!  Sadly we don’t have a public holiday on the Monday – so we will try and do as much as we can on the Sunday afternoon – assuming we have any puff left!

So please don’t be shy – we are a slightly crazy but nonetheless awesome group of people, but don’t let that put you off!