Good news amongst EI gloom

After two months of being unable to ride her competition horses due to EI, Grand Prix young rider Dimity Lourey, 14, of Lochinvar, has reason to celebrate this week.

The Year 10 student has just received an early Christmas present – she has been announced as one of a two-member Australian team to compete in New Zealand in January.
Dimity will join Qld rider Victoria Welch to contest the Trans Tasman Derby at the Lions Foundation New Zealand Young Rider Championships at Taupo on January 12/13.
Dimity, who is believed to be the youngest rider to ever represent Australia in dressage, will compete on borrowed horses in the competition, which will be her first in the international arena.
The competition is for riders aged 21 and under, and it is unheard of for a rider as young as Dimity to be given the honour of representing the country.
Dimity is the youngest member of the Australian Young Rider Talent Squad and a member of the NSW State Young Rider Squad.
She is the youngest competitor in Australian history to be riding at Olympic level and this year has won the open Prix St Georges CDN title at Sydney CDI*** on Hollybrook Boston.
Dimity first rode FEI level at the age of 10 on the Arabian schoolmaster Atallah, winning her first national title. She has also won numerous other championships at FEI level on Royal Treasure and Byalee Gold. Dimity has been competing at Grand Prix since she was 13 and this year won and placed in her first major CDN competitions at that level at the Victorian Dressage Festival and at Qld CDI.
The news of Dimity’s selections comes just as she leaves school to complete an accelerated HSC whilst concentrating on her riding career.

Congratulations Dimity!
*Photo's by Derek O'Leary www.derekoleary.com