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Description : Geelong has made the journey from the Bellarine Peninsula across to Inverleigh where they have made a new home for themselves. With this comes a new cross country course built around the undulating Barwon-Leigh farm. Designed and built by Ewen Kellet, the course was up to his usual high standards. An amazingly smooth start to this new event, the committee have put in endless hours of fundraising, planning and work. Planned for the future are a one star course which will make Geelong an attractive option for this part of the season
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| Getting there : From Melbourne, take the Princes Fwy and take the Geelong bypass. Take the Hamilton exit from which it is 20 km to Inverleigh. There, turn left toward Winchelsea and 2-3 km along here there is a left turn down a sandy ,gravel road. About 1-2 km down this road is Barwon-Leigh. Beware, while most of the trip is along great roads, this last bit was corrugated badly in 2010. | ||
Facilities : Camping at Geelong is very easy with lots of space and a tree line for shade. There's food up till near dark and the local town has food 10 minutes away. The water supply is along the fence lines to the right as you enter and if you don't have your own water, it is best to park near there. There is currently no wash bay although when CNC* does run here, it will need one. No showers at the venue, portable toilets and a decent hike to the secretary's office are all well offset by the magnificent surroundings. There are no yards, although you can erect your own solid yards. |
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Tips : Intro horses need to have seen a few cross country fences before coming here. |
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Courses Intro by Deb Browell: "This was a daunting looking course in 2010 and probably not the place for a first start! With a wide variety of well built fences and caused a number of eliminations and refusals. All fences were very well built and are small examples of what you find in later grades. Horses need to be prepared well with pipes, a ditch/trakener drop fences, a ski ramp, jumps up and down banks and a beautiful water jump." Preliminary by Murray Lampherd: "The preliminary was lovely and inviting and very well built. It is a suitable place to upgrade with good going over gently undulating ground. The course features a large bank drop to arrowhead downhill and an excellent water fence with good footing. An excellent effort in it's first year." Pre-Novice by Robert Goodwin: "This newly built course rode well, with a blend of old fashioned and modern fences. While a testing course, it is suitable to upgrade. The more challenging fences include two offset houses, a ditch and a quite technical bank to an arrowhead. A typical Ewen Kellet course, testing but safe."
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Warm up areas: The dressage warm up is roomy with a relaxed atmosphere and space to work alone. The showjumping had 3 fences and plenty of room. The cross country has 2 fences and planty of room on good going. |
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Helping: This is a private property, so please leave your space as you found it, removing all rubbish. If you live in the area and can help out before the day or at the event itself; contact: Ainsley Wilkins, number in the handbook Entries: Usually only via nominate.com |
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