Clockwise from top left : Dianne Latta of Edenhope Hunt Club riding WONDER BOY at the Strathyre Hunters Spectacular . Photo : Dean Williamson ; Mr M Barton and NABINABAH GUNMAN , October 1982 ; Classifiers Maxine Brooks , Aaron Ryan and Peter Grogan at a North Coast Branch Classification Day in 1981 , with George Walters ’ gelding SPIKE JONES . Photo : Anne McNickle .
1981 a Special Meeting was held at Emerald , attended by Branch Delegates and Directors , Theo Hill , Bryant Gavin , Bill Keen and Charles Duke . The Queensland Management Council was elected as : Chairman – Peter Blundell , Vice Chairman – Tony Bloodworth , Jnr V . Chairman – Denis Hanrahan and Secretary – Kelsie Fitzgerald .
On 9th July , 1982 at the Convention Centre , Chevron Hotel , Surfers Paradise was the official handover of Eddie Hackman ’ s ‘ Nat Buchanan Sculpture ’ to the State President . This trophy is keenly contested each year in Queensland in nine rotating equine disciplines .
On 19th April , 1984 , at a Special Meeting in Charters Towers , the North Queensland Management Council was formed , with Ernest Bassingthwaighte elected as President and Margie Rea as Secretary . This gave Queensland a South and North Qld Management Counci , and each Management Council now holds its own State Show .
In 1985 , Gympie Branch held the first Futurity of its kind ever held in Australia – even before the National Futurity / Maturity , of which Gympie Branch is very proud . The first Futurity was held at Widgee , and was the brainchild of three horse people in the Gympie area – Ian Francis , the late John Elliot and Anne Sutherland . The idea was to have young horses competing against their own age group , and also to promote stallions who sired these youngsters , in order to have successful bloodlines recognised by the public . Some of the original committee are still involved in the event today .
Chinchilla Branch was formed in June of 1985 , with
Cec Sullivan as President . The Branch had Classification Days , training and competition days with the Campdraft Club . Their first Annual Show was 1986 / 87 and the Branch later joined the South Queensland Futurity Series .
In 1986 , Don Cross gave a Perpetual Trophy for a Teams Campdraft Competition between Branches . Central Darling Downs Branch was the first to win the Trophy . This competition continues today , culminating each year in a hard fought final with much rivalry . In 1992 , East Moreton Branch held its first Futurity , Maturity and Challenge . In 1995 , South Queensland Management Council hosted the first National Show to be held in Queensland at Chinchilla – a very successful event . In 1998 , the first Maiden Campdraft Series Final was also run at Chinchilla .
The South Queensland Futurity Series began in the mid 1990s , and is very strongly contested each year , with currently five Branches — Gympie , East Moreton , West Moreton , Eastern Downs and Chinchilla — hosting a Futurity / Maturity and Challenge for the overall High Point . In 2011 , a new section for Youth Judging was added .
Queensland has hosted three very successful National Championships – at Chinchilla ( 1995 ), and Warwick ( 2003 and 2006 ). Warwick also hosted the National Show in 2010 . Queensland has also had the honour of presenting State Service Awards to Cec Sullivan , Gwen Lyons , Dawn Sullivan , Mary Ann Atthow and Sue Goodmanson . These people have all supported the Society for many years at Branch , State and National Show level .
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