This year sees a new venue for the Avenel Horse Trials at the Bulla Adult Riding Club grounds at the Greenvale Reserve and we’ll be filming every competitor on the updated cross country course
“The reason we came here was because we thought we had every chance of winning it” says Francis Whittington and indeed he did win the CCI3* at Blenheim on Catherine Witt’s talented grey, Easy Target in a tense finale
The CCI3* cross country course threw up some challenges for the riders at Blenheim today with loose dogs, some tricky fences and a bit of a re-shuffle at the top
With big events struggling for numbers in 2014 the QI3DE organizing committee were very happy with the 175 horse and rider entries which included the largest contingent of NSW riders to attend so far.
James Bond (aka Francis Whittington) put in an appearance at Blenheim today, as did HRH The Princess Royal and by the end of the day two Australians, Andrew Hoy and Sam Griffiths, topped the CIC3* and CCI3* leader boards