2008 Queensland Dressage Championships

Riding into the rain, QEB Good As Gold & Glenn Pearce went on with the job in the Elementary 3.4, just as all the other competitors had to do during the three wet days of the 2008 Queensland Dressage Championships hosted by the Caboolture Dressage Group on behalf of Queensland Dressage.

APH True Seville & Paula Price took the wet and sloppy conditions in their stride when competing in the Grand Prix.

Elementary 3.4 competitors, Jerez & Rachael Bell.

Pony Novice 2.2 competitors, Chazar Kaleidoscope & Amanda Corbley.

In the Medium 4.2, Jenny Gehrke rode the lovely Hanoverian mare, Gitane.

Grand Prix competitors, Arianne Nijhuis & Olando.

Even with the rain falling, for Remi Louis Armstrong & Tracie Ellis, it was business as usual as they contested the Novice 2.2.

The Hanoverian mare Donna Bonita & Kaz Roe competing in the Medium 4.3.

Novice 2.2 competitors, the Hanoverian mare Dallas & Kate Wilson.

QEB Schumacher steps it out for Glenn Pearce in the Prix St Georges at the Queensland Dressage Championships.

Prix St Georges competitors, the warmblood mare Fantale & Dawn Mitchell.

Inverdoone Rokeby & Rebecca Haigh competing in the Prix St Georges at the Queensland Dressage Championships.

The Holsteiner gelding, Faulkaneer, puts his best foot forward for Anita Scampton during their performance in the Grand Prix.

The Hanoverian gelding, Leandro, was ridden in the Novice 2.2 by Elliot Patterson.

Medium 4.2 competitors, Sue Dale & the easygoing Warmblood gelding, D'Magical Moments.

The stylish Morgan stallion, Ranchboss Cortez, was ridden by Imke Quast in the Novice 2.2.

Hoofprints Flyboy puts in the effort for rider Sarah Wilson in the Pony Novice 2.2.

With feathers flowing, the handsome Clydesdale gelding Eucalypt Park Chieftain & rider Anita Scampton certainly filled the eye during their performance in the Medium 4.3.

Suzanne Burgess rode a nice test on her jaunty Arabian gelding, Sueton Messenger, in the Medium 4.2.

Prix St Georges competitors, Florette & Tor Van Den Berge.

Anglo/Warmblood gelding Johaan Strauss & Chelsea Wood tiptoe across the soggy ground during their performance in the Elementary 3.4.

Emma Flavelle & the Warmblood gelding, Andiamo, competing in the Novice 2.2 at the Queensland Dressage Championships.

Speckled with droplets of rain, River Range Centurian & Kathleen Fraser keep on with the job at hand in the Novice 2.2.

Tracking their way through the wet, Gypsie Lodge Latin Coda & Leasa Stephen contest the Novice 2.2.

Even with the wet & sloppy conditions, Naomi O'Farrell found something to smile about during her test aboard Benalbyn Classique in the Novice 2.2.

A moment of suspension for Karingal Anastasia & Tor Van Den Berge during their performance in the Medium 4.2.

Novice 2.2 competitors, the Thoroughbred mare Chest Of Gold ridden by Donella Anderson.

HP Lothar & Danielle Campbell stretch out across the diagonal during their performance in the Prix St Georges.

Hannah Champion & Beltana La Contessa competing in the Medium 4.2.

Prix St Georges competitors, the Trakehner gelding, Beluga, ridden by Amy Zeller.