Laidley-Walloon Camp Quarter Horse
Danielle Vandenberg, Laidley-Walloon Quarter Horse & Performance Association
2015 September school holidays started with a bang. Thirty one
keen Youth riders of various ages, abilities and backgrounds
flocked to Gatton for three days of fun, learning through clinics
and demos, showing and making new friends, at the Laidley
Walloon Quarter Horse and Performance Association’s Camp
Quarter Horse.
Myself and co, co-ordinator, Julie-Ann Curry, were super excited to kick off our second Camp Quarter Horse. Q-Kids coaches,
Dallas Rumbelow and Lyndsey Ebdon, along with Camp Quarter
Horse coaches Peter Biggs from Just Equus, Leanne Kelly, Sharon Gillard, Laine Gillard, Anita Demmers and Tim Chelsom
were kept extremely busy for two days, coaching these amazing
kids their own talented skills, so they could put it all into practice at the show on the third day for judge, Anett Kerslake.
The kids were exposed to the western show world through
hands on clinics. They were split into rotational groups and
participated in Horsemanship with Peter Biggs from Just
Equus, Halter, Showmanship and Hunter in Hand with Leanne
Kelly, Hunter under Saddle and Hunt Seat Equitation with
Anita Demmers, Western Pleasure and Western Horsemanship
with Laine Gillard, Trail with Sharon Gillard and Reining with
Tim Chelsom.
They even got to