28/09/2026
🐴 Bellingen Working Equitation – Horse of the Year 2026 🏆
What an incredible weekend we had at our Bellingen Working Equitation Horse of the Year event on Saturday and Sunday! We were absolutely spoilt with beautiful weather and it was wonderful to see so many riders, horses, families and supporters come along for the weekend.
A huge thank you to our wonderful judges, Kerry Crees, our Dressage Judge, and Barbara Gosper, our Ease of Handling Judge. We are incredibly grateful for the time, knowledge and experience you brought to the event and for making the trip to spend the weekend with us. Your support of our riders and our club is very much appreciated. ❤️
A massive thank you also goes to our incredible committee, who once again put in an enormous amount of work behind the scenes to make the weekend happen. These events simply wouldn’t be possible without the countless hours of organising, setting up, packing down and everything in between.
🏆 HORSE OF THE YEAR RESULTS 🏆
Introductory
🥇 Champion: Virginia Holmes & Impressive Blizzard
🥈 Reserve Champion: Felicity O’Neill & Jumping Jack
Preparatory
🥇 Champion: Katie Lovett-Martin & Titan WD
🥈 Reserve Champion: Brydi Fittock & Red Hot Acre
Preliminary
🥇 Champion: Megan Prior & Duke of Sherwood
🥈 Reserve Champion: Wendy Hofman & Purdy
Debutante W
🥇 Champion: Taylor Shone & Meridias Moonshine Charlie
🥈 Reserve Champion: Leanne Grocott & Oaks Smart Peppe
Congratulations to all of our Champions and Reserve Champions, and to every combination who competed over the weekend. It was fantastic to see everyone out there supporting one another and enjoying their horses. 🐴💕
We would also like to extend a huge thank you to our amazing sponsors:
✨ Horseland Coffs Harbour
✨ Kari Equestrian
✨ Elders Produce
Your generous support of our club and events is greatly appreciated and helps us continue to provide these opportunities for our riders.
And finally, a very special thank you to everyone who volunteered their time over the weekend. Whether you helped set up, packed away, pencilled, stewarded, helped with obstacles, kept things running behind the scenes or simply jumped in wherever you were needed — thank you. Events like this genuinely couldn’t happen without people willing to lend a hand.
Thank you to everyone who travelled, competed, volunteered, supported our riders or simply came along to enjoy the weekend with us. We hope you had as wonderful a weekend as we did!
