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The Australian season is up and running, and Wandin is where things start to take shape.
This week's Preview Show looks at a four-star field that may be small, but has plenty to like. Some arrive in form, others are building, and for a few, this is an important step on the road to Adelaide.
Sophia Hill brings Tulara Baltango off a strong run, Sam Jeffree has two contenders after an impressive start to the season, and there is plenty of experience alongside combinations looking to step forward. Add in the demands of Wandin, the terrain, the time, and it starts to ask the right questions.
Highlights
Guest
Sharon Ridgway, Australian eventing expert and analyst
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to Berley this September. We have talked a lot at the start of the 2026 season
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particularly over here in the UK. Now it is time for the first preview show down under,
because Wondon is coming up this weekend, and it's always a fun show to look at some of those
combinations that might be heading up to Adelaide Five Star. There's a real kind of buzzer
excitement around a few combinations as well that we could well see come over for the world
championships later this summer. So I have gathered a lady. Anything this lady doesn't know about
eventing in general, not just Australian eventing, is not worth knowing. Sharon Ridgeway,
it is lovely to see you. Thank you. What a lovely introduction.
The start of the season is here that it feels like all the excitement levels are high, and we've
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I'm liking this. I know. I have to admit, I was licking at the eye scenery and I was like, I want
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and it's one of my favourite events for you. So I take that back. Greg, I love you, but I take you
back. I want to stick with the job. Right, Sharon, build up to Adelaide Five Star. There's a number of
combinations in the horseland four star at Wondon who will be vying for a five star run in just
a few short weeks. Entries are still pretty much under wraps. We've also got the Oceana Championships
that Adelaide this year, which is at the four star team competition Australia versus New Zealand,
so we could see some combinations go there. So I think where I'm going with this is plans at this
stage, a fairly wide open. Is that fair? That's exactly right. So in our little rundown of the
horses today, most of them, I've got a fair idea which level they're going to pitch at at Adelaide,
but there might be a couple that change plans because obviously the teams haven't been announced yet.
And in fact, there's going to be two senior teams and one under 25 team, which is kind of gives
eight people the opportunity to get, you know, that first team experience, which is really what
the Oceana is designed for, is designed to let the New Zealanders make a trip over. And when they
are the host country, they get two teams and we get one, but when it's the other way around,
when we're the host country, we get two senior teams. So, you know, that takes a decent chunk of
people that are heading to Adelaide that are hoping that fingers crossed they might get selected.
See, when you talk about the under 25 element as well, we've of course got the under 25
well championships coming up this year in Mill Street, and then next year they had to British
Swords Cormory House. So, there's some real indicators there as to some ones to watch. We've
talked about it. Absolutely. On the show, one of the Barrett being won, and I'm sure we'll talk
about a few more in this episode as well. Before we dive into entries for Wondon, Sharon,
can you rough us up? We've had a couple of four stars over in Australia already this year.
Who's run out as winners? Who are the ones that have started the season with the bank?
Well, Tonne and Back was two weekends ago, and Tonne and Back Sam Jeffrey was first and second,
which was pretty impressive for his first four star run of the season. Sophia just can to
grind on her beautiful 10-year-old Bal tango. I think she ended up fourth. Dave Middleton, who's,
you know, another person that we often talk about who's on a bit of a jumping mayor. He was
third at Tonne Back. Then up in Sydney, they, on the same weekend, had their four star short,
their first of the season. Emma Mason won that on her Kingfisher horse, and Shane was second on
his young horse, Holy Moses. At the moment, we're in two separate states, and we're both following
our own sort of four star paths, but everybody will come together at Adelaide. Then, of course,
we'll include the Westerners, the Greensanders, and anybody else who wants to join in.
We're looking forward to seeing how it all comes together. Let's talk about Wondon now.
Yes.
Kind of the role of honour for this class, listeners. There's plenty of big names that have won it.
T.S. Jumaymo, plenty of you all have remembered him. Of course, Adelaide five star winner with
Chris Burton, actually won this with Wilhelm Enzinger, who is, I believe, the high performance manager
for Australia. He is. Yes. Yes, that's correct. Good. Just, just make sure I haven't slipped
up too early. Amanda Roth, the wonderful cocoa popping candy, has won this before. Yes.
We put one at a couple of times. Sam Jeffery, who we'll talk about today, he won it
at back-to-back years, Woodmount LaLita, 2021-22. Sophia Hill, humble glory, who, of course,
is the horse at stateside at the moment, building up to Kentucky. Sophia has another one in this class,
this weekend, and we'll be Adelaide bound. Let's start with here, because to Laura Beltango,
I think I actually put this horse up as my five star Wondon to watch coming in the season.
He's a stunning young horse. He won Melbourne four star long. He was second at Sydney four star long.
So even though he's only just turned ten, he's actually, you know, he's now getting a decent
sort of band of good performances together. Sophia's one who she could head for the five star
at Adelaide, just looking at Sophia's schedule over the last couple of weeks makes me exhausted
just thinking about it. If I give you a quick rundown as to what she's been doing, she went to
A into the showcase, and obviously that went fantastically, and humble glory was on the podium there.
Then she came home, went to Tonabat with not just this lovely Beltango four star,
she had a whole team of young horses. I think she won three sections on her young horses. She's got
a fantastic young team together. Now she's doing Wondon two weeks later. I'm quite sure
straight after Wondon, she heads to Terra Nova to give humble glory, another prick run before
Kentucky. Then she comes back here, goes straight into Adelaide, where she will either be in the five
star or the four star, whichever she decides to choose. And then the night that it all finishes
at Adelaide, she literally has to jump on a plane straight to America, and that is Kentucky
week. So I know on every trip she takes a wonderful husband and a little boy all over with her.
So the whole team goes, so they all went to Aiken, they all came back, they're all going again
and coming back, it's exhausting. I mean, I have no idea how she does it. She's amazing though,
and I have to say it is a real joy to be able to watch the sort of, I guess, the Kiwi camaraderie,
you know, Monica Spencer is based over in the US now, and I know humble glory is with her,
and sort of she's taking the lead on his training at home, and the amount of trust that that
involves, to allow somebody else to kind of take the lead on preparation on your horse for a five
star is incredible, but also it opens up a whole world of opportunities, and that is what we've
seen for sure. And I think there's probably plenty of horses you couldn't do that with, but
little Kiwi, humble glory, being a thoroughbred Monica is brilliant with those sort of horses.
I mean, that is clearly a pure braid horse as well, but Monica's such a consummate professional,
you know, I couldn't think of any better that you would trust with the horse at the other side of
the world. And to be fair, Sophie, she knows him so well that it must be like putting on an old
comfort pair of slippers when you come back, and they've come up through the grades and have had some
thoughts. So, okay, so to Laura Boltango, will she run quickly this weekend? Do you think,
I mean, this is one of the things. Do you know the reason? I think she probably won't, but what I
would like to say is Sophie and not running quickly is still probably quicker than some people,
because she's just a naturally quick rider. Her horses all travel nicely. It doesn't take a lot to
set them up. They're all good jumpers. She's just got that very free, flowing way of riding,
where she just kind of gets in her nice forward position, sets off, and she basically is a really
economical rider, I think. And Boltango is a bit greener, obviously, he's not thoroughbred,
but, you know, he's quite a, he's sort of, sort of, by a son of Ballot de Rua. So, he's got
quite a bit of sort of decent galloping blood in there, and certainly plenty of good jumping blood.
So, I think she probably won't run fast. I don't think Winning Wondon is her goal. I think
Adelaide's clearly the goal at whatever level she decides to go, and I think probably she will just
have a comfortable round around Wondon this weekend. It's healy, it's twisty, it's a tough terrain
at Wondon. You know, you wouldn't want to run the legs off them if this wasn't your end goal.
It's funny actually, I was looking back through past winners, and when we were looking at actually
what it's taken to win, is there has been a real kind of variety in terms of starting score in the
first phase, you know, you'd rail down in the show jumping, because ultimately, at Wondon,
the cross-country time is so influential. 173 stars in the four-star going back this is 2008,
and only five have ever made the optimum time in the cross-country. So, it is really, really
tough to do. Mia is one of those with humble glory when they won back in 2023. She's, I think she's
the only person to have ever finished on her draft-style score at Wondon in the four-star.
That would be right. That would be right. It is a very hard track. Just the terrain makes it
difficult to go fast. You know, you set off, you go sort of quite downhill for quite a while,
and round the back and launch yourself off this amazing big unfinished bridge, which is a really
iconic Wondon fence. I think quite a few events around the world are now building a similar thing,
but it's been there for 30 years, I think, the unfinished bridge at Wondon, and you literally
gallop along this bridge just into space off this jetty, which is so spectacular. But then you wind
away through the lake and twist around, back through the lake, way back up the hill again,
and then through this incredible quarry, which is made of sort of that red clay sort of dirt.
And if horses haven't been to Wondon before, they get to the edge of this quarry, and they're just
looking down at this giant orange hole. I mean, that is quite, you know, quite a sort of intimidating,
and, you know, the fences are always beautifully built there, and so they all jump well. But,
you know, it's still quite a lot to look at for the first time as I'd Wondon, but of course,
most of the Australians have come up through the levels at Wondon, so they've been through the
orange hole at all the different levels. But if you brought a four-star horse straight to Wondon,
never been through the quarry, it did have a decent look, I think. I think, what an earth is this?
Let's talk about Sam Jeffery, because he's got off to a brilliant start this season. He had a
one-two in Tonnenbach in the four-star shorts, and four-row-one at beat Wimbonghondra. He's obviously
one here a couple of times previously. Both of those horses, I believe the plan is to go to Adelaide,
whichever level that may be. I think Rum Jeffery's name should be on the tip of a lot of people's
tongs, Sharon. He's a very, very capable young man. He worked really hard. He set up a new
property that he's been sort of madly getting at that all set up, putting a little training cross
country course in, and just trying to get himself set up for the future. These two horses are both,
you know, really nice competitive horses. There's a little bit of up and down as to which one
is slightly better on the flat, which one is a slightly better jumper, and they're both good
cross-country horses. So I would expect that one would certainly go five-star at Adelaide, and
possibly the other one, he would be hoping might be Oceana team type horse, because he's clearly
a very capable young man. And so I would have thought they would be his targets. But I would say
here at Wondon, again, possibly it's so difficult to know who's going to run competitively. You know,
as we say at Wondon, you'd have to seriously go for it to even attempt to get the time. And I'm
just not sure if the ones that are leading in Adelaide are going to do that. They're going to
still try and ride them fast. It's a good fitning run. It's a great test to find out where they're at,
and whether they're always as sharp and on the ball. But whether they'll actually really go for it,
I don't know. Who's the cross-country course designer? It's you in Kelet who designed quite a lot
of courses here, but Jared Stanley does the three-star and then all the lower levels. And I think
you and does the two-star and the four-star. Okay, and a big shout-out to Jared, actually, who
is a huge huge eventing fan. And he is one that has made the trip over to events overseas as a
bit of an eventing fan. Exactly. But a really talented horse designer as well. So that's
exciting for the future of Australian eventing. I do think that because remember we missed Wondon
Nassau, we didn't have a Wondon in 2025. So there's been a little bit of a hiatus with Wondon.
I think that's given them time to build a whole heap of new fences. So I'm quite excited to get up
there on the weekend and see what's been happening because of that a bit of time. And I've
feverishly seen them all working away on little clips that I've seen on social media. So I think
there might be a few interesting new fences this year, which will be fantastic.
I think it's an important point to make that it's very hard sometimes for an event to be
sustainable for the future. And if you miss a year for whatever reason that may be, actually,
sometimes coming back from that is particularly difficult. So huge shout-out to Jared, the whole
team at Wondon who have made it happen to Horsland as well, who are the sort of main sponsors,
because that is serious commitment. And it's very important for the Australian eventing
calendar. So we're very, very, very happy to have a Wondon back for 2026.
The bit that I think is really exciting is although there's only 12 starters in the four star,
there are 31 horses in the three star. Now that is a great three star turnout. And I think 33
in the two star. So there's actually a decent amount of international level competitors here
this weekend. And I think in those 31 three stars, there'll be quite a lot of them that will be
easily up for the four star next year. So I think that bodes quite well for the future.
Okay, let's pick up. And then if you had to go elsewhere in the class, we've covered Sam Jeffery,
Leithia Hill as well. David Middleton? David Middleton will be on his horse that is definitely
heading to the five star. She's been around the five star twice before. That's WEC in the breeze.
So this is the mayor in the blacks in the money is out of action at the moment. He's just having
a little bit of time off. So this is actually Dave's only horse he's campaigning at the moment.
This is the mayor that I think last time we talked about her, I said she has a very freaky
unusual jump. She snaps an exact really tight and then reaches out like that under the
grand. So she's quite spectacular to watch. You know, Dave would be the first to admit that he's
a little bit rusty and you know, he's getting a bit older and he doesn't sit quite as neatly as
he used to in these young years. So watching Dave and Breeze go cross country is they've got
such a partnership and she's an amazing jumper. But there's certainly there'll be some excitement
when you're watching Dave and he can go fast, you know, and she's a very good show jumper. In fact,
she came second in a big show, Jamaica last last weekend at a local show. So I think she jumped
around, turned him back quite nicely. I think he had a very unusual rail down which he
just blamed himself for. So I think he's one that he'll certainly be giving it a crack.
He'll be giving a good competitive run. But do I dare? Would it be fair to ask how old David
Milton is now? Do you know, that would be putting me on the spot here, but I would say he'd be in
his definitely younger than me. I'd say mid fifties, maybe. Sorry Dave, if I've pegged you too
wrong, I'm trying to back down from how old I know I am. And I think he'd be, I think he'd be, I mean,
he went to, he went to World Equestrian Games in Heref, I think I want to say, on Willow Bank Jack.
So, you know, that was what was at 2002, was it? That was a fair while ago. So he did have a big
gap and then braid all these lovely home braid horses and then his girls were riding and so he
sort of came back to the spot. So he did have a decent sort of gap in the middle when he wasn't
competing. So, but you know, he's always fun to watch. So the other couple of fives, well, the other
fives don't always in the field is Sam Chesnick with Graff Tango and she's one that you would have
seen on European and British soil. She hated over to do pole at the end of 24 and then had a
go at Babington, sadly didn't pull that one off and then went to Lemurland as well where I think
she also had a fall. But that, that horse is done the whole campaign now in the UK. It's come back
here. She, I watched her turn her back, she's a great cross country horse, you know, she just kind
of pins her ears back and gets on with the job. So she's certainly one of the more experienced horses
in the field and I would say for sure would be heading to the fives star at Edlady. So that's another
one that might have a fairly competitive run. It's funny when we talk about those horses that have
sort of come up through the levels at Wondon. Graff Tango is a prime example of that actually her
first ever international event was a two star back in 2021. She finished fifth at Wondon. She's been
back for I think pretty much every level since maybe miss the three star level but has been placed
in the four star a couple of times. Best placing was second back in 2024. Jumped to lovely double
clear. Funnily enough, actually, I was just looking at the form this year. They were sick that
Tonne Buck and they had a nine penalties cross country in it just. That's right. She had a flag
coming out of the water. Yeah, yeah. Just a minute for my brain. We're recording this Monday morning
and I'm fresh off the school run and my brain just took a beat to go flag penalty. I said nine
penalties and of course the flag penalties have changed for 2026. So if you see a nine penalties
on the cards, that is a flag penalty reduced from 15 penalties. So that's interesting because on my
notes, I went sick that Tonne Buck had a nine exclamation mark and of course, yeah, it takes me a minute
to get my head round as well. So yeah. So another one I would like to pick up on is Ed Derby
on a really lovely little home braid mayor called Don of the day. She's an older man now. She's 15.
He wants to get as much mileage as he can on here. He's a really, really talented up and coming
young rider. He's about 25. So I think he probably is going to age out from those sort of
under 25 championships. But I think he's got a lot of potential for the future. He took himself
over to the UK and spent a couple of weeks with Tim and Janelle in the depths of your horrible
winter, which I think takes a lot of breath every and you know, he's like a sponge. He's a smart young
lad. He juggles being an engineer with riding. His mum actually is my vintage and she rode at five
star level. Julie, it gives him many moons ago. So he's bred for the job on a home braid horse.
And I think he'll probably give it a bit of a good go as well at trying to chase the time down.
He also is quite good on the flat. There's a couple of first, yeah, Asha, that she's a
thorough braid. He's a nice little thorough braid horse. And this would be his first time
at this level at Wondon. He might have done one forester at the back end of last year. So there's
a couple that are sort of stepping up to the level. The other one would be the Shaw Shank,
our lovely boy from India, who's based here while he's at Melbourne University. He was in the silver
medal team at the Sea Gameless recently in Thailand with his other horse. So you know, he's quite a
talented elegant sort of rider. Interesting horse that he's riding. It's called Ikaro B and he's
17 now. He's an order horse that he bought in Europe. But he's actually a Spanish braid horse
who has campaigned up to three or four star level back four or five years ago by a Spanish rider.
So Shaw Shank is at Melbourne University studying architecture, juggling, riding a couple of horses.
He's got a three star and this four star horse. So he's very good on the flat. Could potentially be
one of the top ones after the dressage. But I think given that he's a little green at this level,
he wouldn't be on my podium. But I think it's nice to see those talented younger riders stepping
up. A couple of other ones. Yona Lloyd on his five star campaigner is going to come and have another
go here at Wondon. I would say he probably has jumped round Wondon plenty of times Yona. He's one
of the more senior competitors and he is heading into Adelaide Five Star. And then we've got a visitor
from South Australia, which is Rachel Verma on Sandhill's Chrystella. And of course that prefix
Sandhill is getting quite well known now because that's Peru and Craig Barrett's study. And of course
both all of her Barrett's lovely young horses are heading into Adelaide Five Star have that Sandhill's
prefix. So she's a visitor from South Australia coming over to have her first go at Adelaide Fource
at the end, Wondon Four Star probably has a lead up to Adelaide I would say. Yeah, I'd just give a
big shout out to Lily Wittenden as well actually who has Lily. And that horse has had sort of a
bathroom of four star form. It's got a lot of three star form as well, but was sick that Tonin
last year with a good clear hand and produced a low 30 stress odd. So probably she would definitely
one of the front runners after the dressage for sure. Yeah, yeah, she's a lovely elegant,
another talented young rider that was quite local to me, but they've now set up her and her
partners. Seed who also events have set up a pre-training and breaking property on sort of
bigger acreage. So she's actually moved further away from me. But yeah, Lily is definitely one
we should watch out for in that first phase. They are actually doing the 2026, the new test B,
which I haven't actually seen done yet. And that will be quite interesting. We've got Les Smith
coming out from the UK to Judge and Douglas Hibbert. So yeah, so that that will be a bit of fun.
I'll get my Scottish accent fix for the weekend, which will be nice. But yeah, that test B,
the changes are right at the end. So I think for some of these horses stepping up to the four star
level, you know, the tests could potentially look like they're going quite well. And then it could
go a little peer-shaped if they haven't got those changes nailed because they're on the centre line.
It looks it comes out of the half pass up the centre line and change on the centre line. So it
will be interesting to see how that test rides. Is it I always think a sort of a bit of a moment
of change when you have a new test that gets thrown in at the different levels because we've
talked to the likes of Andrew Benny, who's been really instrumental in actually helping to
write those tests. And they get a lot of feedback from riders, other coaches, judges, everything
to be able to kind of finalize that. But actually, it sometimes takes a little while. Doesn't it
for riders to get the head round? Can you remember when the stretchiest canter circle was introduced
about? And a few. Well, firstly, everybody forgot it. Yes, it's the most forgotten movement.
There was a one on the centre line that you had to make a downward transition from canter to
trot. And the amount of brilliant five star horses that all of a sudden, because more different to
what they'd been doing, we're like, how in a second trot, you want me to stop? No trot?
What are we doing? Sort of ways fascinating. What is that? And I think, actually,
listeners, you can tune in to watch certainly the cross-currentry of horse into it. Clip my horse.
Clip my horse definitely. I don't know for the horseland. Yep, please. So you'll be in very safe hands
and yeah, it's a great opportunity to be able to see some of those Adelaide bound combinations
up close and personal in the build up to what will be, it's not the first five star of the year this
year, is it? Is it the first one? No. But yeah, four weeks down. Yep, it's the weekend before
Kentucky goes weekend. So we go Adelaide, Kentucky, week off, badminton, three five stars, four weeks,
busy, busy, busy listeners. Wait, can't wait. Sharon, can I ask you for your
podium, please? Who wins? You can. I am going to say Sophia Hill wins just because she's on
such top form. I know she doesn't really want to go fast this weekend, but I'm banking on Sophia's
smooth riding means that actually she will be quite economical and will end up quite fast.
Tellara Beltango isn't unbelievably good jumper and you know, he's just got that bit of quality
of Adam and she can do quite a 32-ish sort of test. So I'm going to pick Sophia for the win,
I'm going to pick Sam Jeffrey's for second. I couldn't decide which choice, but I think I'm going
to go for Wimborn conjurer because I think he's probably just a little bit more reliable.
He's a good jumper. They're both lovely horses, but I've decided to pick for that one. And I'm
going to go for Ed Derby, who I think is just such a talented up and coming young rider on
dawn of the day. Okay, I'm actually going to say that Sam Jeffrey will take the win. I think he's
going to reverse the fortunes. All the horses will reverse their fortunes of Tonne Buck a couple of
weeks ago, though. And I think Wimborn conjurer will now beat Santoro, but it will be another one
to Sam Jeffrey. And I think it's actually going to be a very similar podium to Tonne Buck. David
Middleton, BUEC in the breeze is going to be third, I think. Excellent podium. What's the space?
Well, your plans for this year, Sharon, are you heading over to come over to Europe for any events?
Yep, I'm going to come to Ark in this year. I couldn't resist that. And then I'm actually going to do
a little Scottish trip up to Scoon Palace because I'm quite excited to see how it's all done.
I've been to Blair many times. And I actually remember the first time around at Scoon, but I never
actually went. So I've got lots of lovely family and friends in Scotland. So it's a perfect excuse to
go to Scoon and heartbreakingly, I'm flying back home on the week of Burley. So going to miss out
in my Burley fix this year, but I did go last year. So you can't do everything.
You can't, and you will get the worlds and Scoon will be really, really, really, really good fun,
but even so, we'll miss you up, Burley. We're looking forward to it. We'll probably chat. I'm
sure in a few weeks. Adelaide is just around the corner. I've got loads to look forward to there,
but listeners, I hope you've enjoyed a sneaky little preview as to everything that you could keep
your eye on at Horseland Wondon at this weekend. Don't forget you can tune in.
Let my horse will have the live stream and watch this space. We'll sound Jeffery perform another
one, two at the top of the podium, or will somebody else take the honors? For now, that is all we've
got time for. Don't forget to check out eventingtores.com if you're interested in a trip to defend a
Burley this year. Give Greg a call. If you've got any questions, give him a call. He's a man with
huge eventing experience knowledge. It was actually sharp to keep with the Canadian team for a number
of years back in the early 2000s, I think. So he's massively, massively knowledgeable person about
eventing, but ultimately knows what it's like to be a fan as well. And hopefully this will really
open up the doors for a trip of the lifetime of some of you guys listening along. But for now,
Sharon, thank you, and listeners, thank you very much for tuning in. Enjoy Wondon.
I was a pleasure. I was a pleasure.
Sam Lissington, are you ready to take on Fairfax and Favour's quick fire questions?
Ready. Okay, let's go. What is your party trick? Probably enthusiastic dancing, but that doesn't mean
I'm any good at dancing. You can see how some is all you need. That's fine. Which B is your
favourite? Bags, boots or belts? Boots. Then belts. Then bags. What was your favourite
subject in school? I think English. Sam Lissington, thank you for playing Fairfax and Favour's
quick fire questions. Thanks for having me. Hi, I'm Lucy Robinson. One of my favourite foreign
equine products is the Kentucky Caron Oil. Now, I've used this product a lot over the winter,
mainly to help support my ex-racers digestive health. But this oil also helped superbly with
his coat condition. It really brought back the chest snap shine.



