An Eventful Life is filming all competitors on cross country at Tonimbuk Horse Trials – order or view videos here
The 4Cyte & Heidelberg Materials Tonimbuk International Horse Trials 2026 will kick off the Australian international eventing season in Victoria this week from 6th – 8th March. The Tonimbuk Equestrian Centre will host classes from EvA80 to CCN1* at national level with the CCI2*, CCI3* and CCI4* short format classes attracting some top riders and horses commencing their season campaign.
Sophia Hill has done a very quick turnaround from finishing on the podium at the Grand Prix Eventing in Aiken, USA to ride Tulara Baltango in the VRW Civil CCI4* and she will be up against last year’s winners, Sam Jeffree and Santoro plus Sam’s 2025 Adelaide third placegetter Wimborne Conjuror.
The 2024 Adelaide 5* winner, David Middleton will be riding WEC In The Breeze, Sam Cesnik also brings her 5* mare Graftango and Yona Lloyd is riding Ballahowe Ayurvedic who finished in the top 10 at Adelaide 5* last year.
The event starts on Friday with dressage for some of the EvA80 and EvA95 competitors followed by all remaining dressage on Saturday and showjumping for the CCI3* and CCI4* in the Indoor Arena in the early eventing. Sunday is cross country day when all competitors take to the courses designed by Ewan Kellett and Mick Pineo.
We’ll be filming all competitors on cross country and bringing you daily reports from the event – we’ll see you there!
