At the completion of the final classes, the event has been deemed a resounding success and the Media Manager, Katherine Plomer,  filed this report.

That’s it for another year! The Saddleworld 2014 Brisbane CDI has been bigger and better than ever. The Saturday night entertainment featuring the Freestyles and the Bareback Show Jumping drew in the biggest crowd at the event to date.
 
The sun shone brightly on the final day of the Saddleworld 2014 Brisbane CDI. The first class was the horses-store.com Advanced Freestyle. This class was taken out by Amanda Shoobridge and Revelwood Destiny.

The Revelwood team have had a fantastic event and David even participated in the bareback showjumping spectacular in great form with his dressage tails and all! (Picture from Revelwood)
 
The Young Horse Showcase features the top three performing horses from the Moreton Bay Regional Council Young Horse 4YO Round 2, Moreton Bay Regional Council Young Horse 5YO Round 2 and the CSG Young Horse 6 YO Round 2. The showcase drew quite a crowd as the judges commented on what they looked for in a young horse and what level they expected them to be ridden at. The judges also stated that the young horses all had promising futures ahead of them. Pictured above left: MI Sirtainly Sir repeats his 4YO Championship win at Dressage and Jumping with the Stars to be the 4 YO Champion in Brisbane. (Pic: Berni Saunders)
 
The Sharon Doe Memorial class was the final class of the day and was open to riders under 25 years of age, and is judged on the rider not the horse. The winner of this class was young Elke Gutsche from Queensland.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our sponsors, supporters and volunteers of the event, in particular our naming rights sponsor, Saddleworld.

David Sharp, Saddleworld’s Business Development Manager (right) states, ‘Saddleworld is thrilled to be associated as the naming rights sponsor with a prestigious event like the 2014 Brisbane CDI. It is our desire, at Saddleworld, to continue to support dressage in Australia and Australian riders through prestigious events such as this. The Brisbane CDI is an important ‘International’ fixture on the Australian dressage calendar and provides a qualification opportunity for our top level riders looking to be included in the Olympics, World Equestrian Games and World Cup Finals’.

We would also like to take the opportunity to thank our event director, Cathie Drury-Klein.

Don’t forget you can still rewatch the tests via the live streaming HERE and review all of the results HERE.
 
We look forward to seeing you at the event again in 2015. If you would like to be involved in any way please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you all for a great event.

Katherine Plomer
Media Manager,
Saddleworld 2014 Brisbane CDI