Details of the 2025 May ANTs Trail Horse Challenge

The Trail Horse Challenge consists of 3 events:

• Trail Obstacles,

• a Hack Pattern, and

• a Keyhole.

You are invited to participate with one or 2 horses and can ride AND/OR compete online.

Novice or Open Classes

To make it fair, we're offering a Novice or an Open Class. If you nominate a horse in the Novice Horse section, it cannot compete in the Open section. Similarly, an Open Horse cannot compete in the Novice Horse section however you can compete in both Ridden and Online with the same horse if you wish.

Judges:

Obstacle Course: Louise Hillman
Hack Pattern: Charlotte McIntyre
Keyhole: Jim Mitchell

Both of your judges will be focussing on assessing your relationship over and above achieving the obstacles. They will be evaluating the following:

Confidence (20) | Relaxation (20) / Connection (20) / Turnout (20)
with Each Obstacle’s total score of 10 (10 x 12 obstacles) (120)
Maximum potential score of 200

There is a $20 entry fee per horse for the day.

Nominations have closed.

There are 2 categories, each with a Ridden and Lead (online) component. You may choose to do both components, or just the one.

Below is an example of instructions for competing in the Novice Horse Lead category of the Obstacle Challenge.

See the buttons for the Keyhole and Hack patterns further down this page.