Please ensure your helmet and back protector meet the required standards!
Here are the PDFs with the standards listed.
Upcoming Hunter Trial
Not long to go until our Hunter Trial!
Volunteers are VIPs – and we can’t run this competition without them.
If you are handy with a whipper snipper we have many many jumps that need tidying up – a working bee this Saturday so please come if you can.
We will be flagging the XC course and setting up the SJ on Saturdy (12th) so we welcome your assistance with that.
If you can help on the 13th with either the SJ or XC jump judge – please send an email to Kate on canberraode@gmail.com
Cross country course maps
We are so lucky that local rider and NCHTA member Sophie Coutts has recorded all of the courses. They can be found on the cross country website. A reminder that our officials need to sign off on the distances and times. We will post when they have been signed off.
You can also download a paper version of each course.
Countdown tips and facts
The almost endless list of jobs…
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!
Sneak peek at some of the jumps
Don’t forget that here in Canberra we use slightly different colours on our XC jumps – red and pink fade and look very similar! Click here for the link to the XC maps
So we use red/pink for the 1* (or 105 or Prenovice depending on what language you use!)
For the EvA95 we use white numbers:
For EvA80 we use blue:
And for the EvA60 we use orange:
2* are yellow (which is the same everywhere!) but here’s a photo so those riders don’t get envious:
Venue Map
Here is a map of the venue – hopefully it helps!
The draw is available.
At a somewhat late hour – here are the notes and draw.
They have been emailed to all riders. Please take the time to read the notes – it’s full of necessary information.
Delay for publishing the draw
Gremlins got into Kate’s computer – and no external back up of the draw was made – so the draw is being prepared again.
I am very sorry for the delay and hope to get it to you ASAP.
Tour de Cure
Our long time sponsors Funky Brew are fundraising for Tour de Cure again this year.
In May, Kent will be cycling 1300km from Sydney to Geelong, to raise funds for cancer research, awareness, and promoting a “Be fit, be healthy, be happy” lifestyle campaign.
With only 7 weeks until Kent sets off, he has many hours of training ahead! More importantly though, he still has about $5,000 to raise before he reaches his target of $12,000.
There will be a bucket at the Funky Brew Coffee cart this weekend, but you can make a donation more easily online (tax deductible). NCHTA encourages all our eventers to support Kent and Tour de Cure.
National Capital Horse Trials Association 