MRC hosts sixth annual show
Mataffin Riding Club (MRC) welcomed horses and riders from all over the province to join in on the festivities of the dressage and showjumping competition of the sixth annual Betty Burgess Show.
The 2018 winner for the Betty Burgess Best Performance Trophy was won by Anisca Smit riding Swazi-Lizkhar Lady Luck and Kraai Kamffer taking joint Rockys Armature Winders runner-up trophy with Lezar Solero and White Waters on Time.
On Friday evening the club started a new tradition by hosting an opening ceremony and sending out a quadrille challenge for the local stable yards to enter. It is a performance ride of four riders that create their own dressage test to music and costume.
MRC quadrille team members Charmaine Vincent, Bev Gillespie, Kim Husband and Ashleigh Buys rode a great worked out test to the music of Top Gun.
Uplands Equestrian Centre entered a phenomenal team that created a performance to the music and costume of The Lion King.
The hosts entered an extra team for a pas de deux with Kelly Harris and Mia Tinkhof dressed as the rainbow nation.
The quadrille challenge team for 2018 went to Mataffin Riding Club Top Gun Team.
Saturday was the dressage portion for the competition and the last qualifier for the Mpumalanga Dressage Series for 2018.
Course designer Arnold Botha put together technical showjumping courses for the riders.
Photos: Neil Whyte
