Over the weekend I attended the 'Return of The Horse' show at the Sydney Olympic Equestrian Centre. The weekend served as a trials for budding hopefuls to the Australian Equestrian Team for the Beijing Olympic Games later this year. Many of Australia's Olympic and international team are based permanently overseas and this was a chance to show off some home based talent. I took my 14 yr old daughter out to the event (who is a horse lover and used to own her own horse). She loved the action - I saw it as an opportunity to take some photos.... On show was Australia's up and coming stars for show jumping and cross country. We watched the showjumping for a while and then made our way out to one of the water jumps on the cross country course for some different action. One young woman next to us was just about to embark on a wonderful trip to the United States to be based in Carolina for the next 6 months to further enhance her equestrian experience. She had plans to compete in all kinds of events around where she will be staying. Kentucky was mentioned alot so I gather thats where a lot of horse action is. I know of the Kentucky Derby, but that's a different kettle of fish!! Sounded very exciting! She was so pleased to have passed the interview for her work visa. I quite enjoyed the day. Judging by what I saw on the day we look strong for the equestrian events at Beijing. C'mon Aussie C'mon...Gold, Gold, Gold !!!!
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