Highlights of this year's event can be seen across Australia on New Years Day at 12noon on Channel 7. What an awesome way to remember all the thrills of the 2013 event and start your new year with some world class equestrian action.
2013 WRAP-UP - BRING ON 2014!
As we recover from the edge-of-your-seat excitement of Chris Burton's fabulous AI3DE win on TS Jamaimo, let's take a look back on what makes this event one of the world's best equestrian events.
A huge thank you to all of you who attended and to our major event partners:
The Government of South Australia,
Adelaide City Council,
Equestrian Australia,
The Australian Sports Commission
and of course, FEI.
An event of this size requires the ongoing support and input of a number of sponsors and we are extremely lucky to have these fabulous sponsors:
HSBC,
QANTAS,
Channel 7,
ATCO Australia,
Horseland,
ARIAT,
The Advertiser,
Grant Burge Barossa Wines,
Pryde's EasiFeed and Hilton Adelaide.
The 2013 Event was supported in many different ways by a number of quality brands and companies:
Renniks, Nominate, Olympic Trailers, Bates Saddles, Mount Franklin, Horse Deals, Bakers Advertising & Marketing, Dublin, An Eventful Life, St John, IRT, Big Screen Video, C4 Architects, Eventing South Australia, T&R Pastoral, Db Business Events, Staging Connections, Red Jam, Southern Stars Saddlery, Chocolateria San Churro, Lancome and Frauenfelder Gates.
Please keep these sponsors and supporters in mind when making your purchasing decisions to show them their support of your support means your support of their businesses!
Photographs above HSBC CCI4* winner Chris Burton from Libby Law Photography NZ
and Dublin Young Rider Champion Isobel Houghton Kangra Photo
VIVA LA VOLUNTEERS!
A massive thank you to everyone who volunteered at the 2013 AI3DE. With your help, we put together an event that is being applauded by riders, officials and visitors from all over the world. Hundreds of volunteers make this event happen,and if you were one of them, we'd like to THANK YOU very much - you were the reason the event ran so well.
From marshalls, jump judges, to those providing you with information at the gate, photocopying thousands of results sheets to keep you updated, writing up the results board in the marketplace, replacing jump poles, delivering results, making sure everything happened in the VIP tent, honestly the list of jobs done by volunteers is so long, you'd be surprised and without you, well, without you there simply would be no event.
It could not run without you so wear your ARIAT volunteer shirts with pride throughout this year and if you know someone who volunteered, give them a pat on the back and a thank you for their work. Keep your eyes on the website, we'll be calling for volunteer applications again around March 2014.
Photographs above courtesy of Andrew Graham of Kangra Photography.
OFFICIAL THANK YOU TO THE OFFICIALS
A massive thank you also to the officials who worked tirelessly not only throughout the weekend, but for many months prior to the event.
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Members of the Organising Committee devote hundreds of hours of their time to working through every detail of the event, and when it's over (like now), they're meeting again to debrief, review, improve and build an even bigger, better AIHT in 2014.
Thank you all so much for your energy, efforts, enthusiasm and encouragement and your support of Australian (and international) eventing
NO PARTY WITHOUT PUNCH!
The headline is an old saying and the "punch" at our party is the fabulous horses, riders, owners, grooms and families who travel from near and far to compete.
The athleticism of horses and riders competing feverishly at this level is inspiring and we appreciate the hours and hours and hours of training and work that goes into bringing a horse to this level of the sport.
Thank you for inspiring those of us with horses to be better, to work harder and to appreciate that we're all part of this fabulous equestrian world.
Channel 7 will broadcast all the highlights of the 2013 event on New years Day - 1st January 2014 at midday across Australia. Mark your calendar and get ready to start the New year with some exciting eventing action on Channel 7.
Thank you to Jenelle Christopher and Libby Law for the photographs below.
2* winner Cassie Lowe and Koko Doro
AI3DE events written and edited by Carol Neller, Tell Tayls Creative. If you need words for brochures, marketing material, websites or pretty much anything, contact Carol on 0418 896 359.
AI3DE newsletter written and edited by Carol Neller, Tell Tayls Creative. If you need words for brochures, marketing material, websites or pretty much anything, contact Carol on 0418 896 359.
