24 This past year has been a fruitful one. We started in January with the Southern Carraige Club hosting a week-long Boyd Exell clinic including a junior programme. His event was very well attended. The host club along with Boyd and his family made everyone very welcome and all enjoyed the activities after the clinics each day. The Oaklands Horse & Carraige Driving Club hosted a CAI 1*, 2*, CAN event along with an ACDS event in March. The weekend included a FEI Level 1 & 2 Course Designers Clinic. Both were well attended. The event welcomed Mr James Rooney from Great Britain as a Judge and Mr Christian Iseli from Austria as Technical Delegate for the event & course presenter for the Course Designers Clinic. Following this the Horse Driving Trials Club in Grafton hosted a participation event which attracted over 20 entries across various classes. In October the Horse Driving Trials Club is again hosting a Boyd Exell Clinic, as well as a Junior Drivers Clinic. Drivers from New Zealand & Australia have signed up for the schools. The Junior range in age from 8 years old to 16 which is great to see. October 5th to the 7th will see the Horse Driving Trials Club host their annual event once again which is growing in strength year to year. This year there are over 28 competitors entered. This year we welcome 3 Foreign visitors with Joaquin Medina of Spain, Marie De Ronde-oudemans of Netherlands as judges, and Marc Johnson of USA as the course designer. A FEI Judges Clinic is scheduled with Joaquin Medina of Spain prior to the event with good numbers entered to participate. There have also been numerous club activity days, and junior clinics run throughout the eastern states & South Australia. This year the National Carriage Driving Committee will be calling for two nominations to join. Please if you are interested in applying and are willing to give to the sport we all enjoy please keep an eye out on the National website. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my committee for the hard work and persistence throughout the year. This year for the first time we have a Drivers Representative appointed to the committee, so if you are an athlete wanting to suggest anything to the committee or have any concerns please don’t hesitate to contact Corby Cunnington or any of the committee, all details are on the EA website. The committee would like to thank the EA office for their continued support and the national board also for their support and foresight in carriage driving. Dot Wilcoxson Equestrian Australia Driving Committee Chair Equestrian Australia Driving Committee Dot Wilcoxson - Chair Ty Nichols Dianne Norris Lorraine Cairns Christine Gibbons DRIVING Driving Dressage