Lloyd shines at Lakes and Craters

Strong competition in the two-star class at the picturesque Lakes and Craters horse trials saw Yona Lloyd score well with his young horses.

Standout jumper: Yona Lloyd on the two-star winner Alby Talkative. Picture: Derek O'Leary

THE Lakes and Craters horse trials is set in one of the most beautiful parts of Victoria.

On a ridge between the two magnificent lakes of Lake Bullen Merri and Lake Gnotuk, it’s been the home of the horse trials for many years under the stewardship of the famous Roycroft family.

While numbers were light in the highest levels, there was solid competition from the two-star class down.

In the four-star, run as a combined training class, Molly Barry’s La Muso won, and in the three-star horse trial, Jessica Cocks added just four showjumping faults and some cross country time faults to a good dressage score to win.

The two-star class started a great weekend for Yona Lloyd, who won two classes and placed in others with his young horses.

He took first and second place in the two-star, with Alby Talkative and Ballahowe Ayurvedic respectively. Charlotte Curwen’s LP Janvier dropped from first after dressage to third place with time faults in cross-country.

The dressage scores placed little emphasis on the final placings in the 40-strong field in the one-star class, with good jumping around Lakes and Craters’ testing course playing its part.

The winner, Sarah Boatwood’s Edenvale Joshua, rose from 12th after dressage with super jumping rounds, David Middleton’s WEC in the Breeze was sixth after dressage and finished second, with Yona Lloyd taking another ribbon home for third with Havelock Brandy after being 11th after the dressage.

The EA 95cm class saw Yona Lloyd’s Carlyle Park Bravo win one section and Emily Tyrrell’s Divine Affair Casper the other.

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