Berrima Horse Trials, NSW

Berrima Horse Trials serves the sport of Eventing at both the elite international level and the sport development level, and is a significant spoke in the wheel of Australia Equestrian success at the Olympic Games.

Berrima Horse Trials was founded in the wet winter of 1989, when Vince Roche gathered a group of Southern Highlands equestrian enthusiasts together, walked them around his parents 160 acre property “Araluen” at Sutton Forest and showed them where he proposed to build a cross country course. The group agreed to found Berrima Horse Trials, and settled on a philosophy that remains sound twenty one years later … the provision of high quality cross country fences with as much attention given to the lower grades as to the more elite classes.

Two or three One Day Events have been held each year, attracting up to 420 competitors. In addition, the club holds clinics for its members and other eventers. Such clinics have been given by Olympic medallists Matt Ryan, Ian Stark and Lucinda Green, as well as the previous Australian National Coach Wayne Roycroft and Assistant Coach Heath Ryan.