2015 Royal Melbourne Show

Maddison Cooke from Panton Hill in Victoria rode her, 'Monarco 2' to fourth place in the class for Open Show Hunter 15-15.2hh.

India Mitchell rode her lovely, 'Royalwood Centre Stage' by Royalwood Boy Soprano to win the class for Open Hack 15-15.2hh.

Rebecca Richards rode the very well performed Thoroughbred mare, 'Dymondz' to win the Lady's Show Hunter class and take third place in the Open 15.2-16hh.

Troy Wilson rode his imported Warmblood mare, 'Shakira LP' by Samba Hit to win the class for Gent's Show Hunter and take third place in the class for Show Hunter Over 16hh.

Stephanie Barrington rode her beautiful, 'SLM Orlando' by Redoute's Choice to third place in the strong class for Open Hack Over 16.2hh. They were also Top Ten in the Pope Cup.

Adam Oliver had a good day at the office with his and the GC Equestrian's lovely nomination, 'Supreme' that won the class for Gent's Hack.

Heidi Pickstock as one of the lovely Top Ten final line up for the Pope Cup riding Dale Plumb's very successful, 'DP Amazing'.

Samantha McMaster made the Pope Cup Top Ten with her impressive Zabeel gelding, 'SLM Mercedes'.

Mark Kenzig rode the beautiful big Gorst and Berwick nomination, 'Xlerate' by Zabeel to make the Pope Cup Top Ten.

Vienna Smith from Grassmere in Victoria rode her lovely mare, 'Hypnotic' to make Top Ten in the Col.AV Pope Cup.

Ali Berwick rode her own, Rebecca Crane and Billy Raymont's nomination, 'France' to take out the Providence Cup. The class runs along similar lines as the Pope Cup, but in this case the three judges are looking for Show Hunter qualities. Ali went on to also take out the Open Over 16h Show Hunter class with the impressive, big Fisherman's Friend son. Later in the day they won the class for Show Hunter Over 16hh and took out the 2015 Royal Melbourne Show, Show Hunter Horse Championship.

Briony Randel (nee Payne) is having an amazing 2015 Spring season with her own, Warren Coyle and Howard Morris', 'Entourage'. The horse was declared Champion Hack at both Brisbane and Adelaide Royals and today Briony added another first to her overflowing ribbon cupboard, by taking out the prestigious Col. AV Pope Cup for "horses showing Thoroughbred qualities".

Jason James rode Alexandra Nairn's Champion Child's Hack, 'Boyfriend' to fourth place in the class for Open Hack 16-16.2hh.

Bettina Stanton from Bletchley in South Australia rode her lovely, 'Vienna Night Devine' to make the Pope Cup Top Ten and take third place in the strong class for Open Hack 16-16.2hh.

Paul Austin rode his own, Sue Stafford and Mark Lilley's, 'Pandemonium' to second place in the class for Open Hack Over 16.2hh as well as the class for Gent's Hack.

Matilda Longbottom rode her well performed, 'Broadway Duntroon' by Donautraum to take second place in the class for Open Show Hunter 15-15.2hh.

Tara Kirk did well to take second place in the class for Open Hack 15-15.2hh with her eye catching, 'Nadal'.

Penny Greenhill had a successful Adelaide Royal with her , 'Kolbeach Party' an today took fourth place in the class for Open Hack 15-15.2hh.

Rachel Wessel rode her own and husband, Scott's successful Thoroughbred Show Hunter, 'Gervase Park Fractional' to take fourth place in the class for Open Show Hunter 15.2-16hh.

Laura Heffer rode Jane Veall's Rotspon gelding, 'Remi Rockafella' to second place in the class for Open Show Hunter 15.2-16hh.

Courtney Bird rode her beautiful former Horse Deals Off The Track subject, 'Marquise' to second place in the class for Open Hack 15.2-16hh.

Darryl Hayes rode Belinda Cusworth's well performed, 'Aspen Park Icon' to fourth place in the class for Open Hack 15.2-16hh.

Mark Kiddle rode Malcolm McCrae's nomination, 'Rouge Trader R' owned by Michelle Labahn to fifth place in the class for Open Show Hunter Over 16hh.

Well known showing identity, Brian Scholes rode his eye catching, 'Fields of Harvest' to fourth place in the class for Gent's Show Hunter.

Simon Deleeuw rode Eileen Clarke's, 'Ritchie's Girl' to win the class for Open Show Hunter 15-15.2hh and go on to take out the 2015 Royal Melbourne Show, Show Hunter Reserve Championship.

Popular and successful showing personality, Laura Thomas from Diggers Rest rode her, 'On Fire' to win the class for Open Show Hunter 15.2-16hh.

Tess O'Connor rode her, 'D' Artagnan' to take second place in the class for Open Show Hunter Over 16hh.

Francesca Christie rode her own and Jillian Russell's beautiful, Best Novice Hack, 'Eye Of The Tiger NZ' to win the class for Open Hack 16-16.2hh and go on to claim the 2015 Royal Melbourne Show Hack Championship Reserve title.

Jordan Skyring from Park Ridge in Queensland rode her, 'DP Polo' to win the class for Lady's Hack.

Michael Christie was keen to add the Mac Greaves Memorial Melbourne Royal Hack Championship to the beautiful 'Mikimoto's' extensive list of achievements. They delivered today for owner, Sandra McCann by first winning the 15.2-16hh class and then with a beautifully ridden workout, claimed the Championship.