Billagall Equestrian

30/10/2021

Lest we forget 🌹

20/10/2021

One of our favourites on the far left 😀

Showjumping Championships

The third Sydney Festival Showjumping Championships were held in 1982, and promoted in the program was the winning team from the 1981 International Teams Trophy at this festival - Australia!

Ireland won in 1980, then the Australian team of (l to r) Guy Creighton (horse not named), Jeff McVean (Arrest and Trial) and Gavin Chester (Lancaster) took it the next year.

Teams were all to ride B Grade horses, with overseas teams loaned horses for the event, with one day for familiarisation. With the cost of horses now, one wonders if this would still happen.

In 1983, the teams were to be from Canada, Switzerland, Australia and a composite International team featuring Nelson Pessoa (father of Rodrigo, also a superstar) of Brazil.

Does someone recall the name of Guy's horse, or can ask him?

(Psst . . . we used to know this as the Benson and Hedges Championships in the days of to***co sport sponsorship).

Program: Brian Nowell collection

24/08/2021

Love this

It was one of those occasional, beautiful northeast summer mornings. Though it was early August, the temperature was low, there was zero humidity and the sky was a cloudless blue. I stood in a perfectly manicured field looking over the deep green grass punctuated by jumps of bright colors and shapes...

11/08/2021

Just love this❤
Harvey Smith and a three year old Robert.

An amazing photograph of Harvey riding one of his great horses of the sixties, Warpaint. Here they are ba****ck on the Yorkshire moors overlooking Bingley.
Repost: Golden Age of Showjumping
Photo credit: Enjoy this spectacular one of a kind photograph from the "Golden Age of Show Jumping".

04/08/2021

29/07/2021

When you're Charlotte Dujardin, collector of gold medals and holder of world records, and you’ve won everything it’s possible to win in the sport with one amazing horse, what’s left to do after that horse retires? Start some new prospects up th...

26/07/2021

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22/07/2021

So me! 😄

So what's the problem 🤣 ?
credits: Pinterest

22/07/2021

Love this 💕

Ribbons are lovely mementos and symbols, but be careful... when you allow ribbons to tell you if you have done a good job, then their absence will try to tell you that it was bad. And that is never the whole story.

Although one mistake can deny you a ribbon, one mistake cannot negate the positive growth, teamwork and joy that exists in every single ride. Always carry your own goals and progress closest to your heart. 💙💗💙

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17/07/2021

9a.m UK time is 6pm Brisbane time

This could be very useful….. the timing for the Olympics for dressage, show jumping and Eventing! 🇮🇪🐴🇮🇪