Welcome to Dunnabeck Horse Trials

On May 8, 2009 the Southern Illinois area, home to the Dunnabeck Horse Trials, suffered severe storm damage due to an unusually devastating wind storm.

The grounds of the Dunnabeck Horse Trials were devastated by high winds and severe rain. Trees were uprooted, many young trees were broken and bowed, and old mature deeply rooted trees were left with just the root balls showing. The grounds were littered with logs, branches and other debris. The lovely forested trails where the horses galloped were damaged and covered with downed trees and limbs.

The Dunnabeck Organizing committee made the sad decision to cancel this year’s recognized event. However, a one day unrecognized event will be held to subsidize the costs of repairing the grounds, in hopes of having an even lovelier event on Sept. 18 and 19, 2010.

We hope you will join us for our One Day Horse Trials/Combined Test. We have included a "Green as Grass" level for the youngest riders and greenest horses. Please see the tentative schedule of events and follow the listed links for all the necessary information.

Click here for Complete Entry Information for our One Day Event

Click here for One Day Entry Form

Click here for One Day Release Form

TENTATIVE Schedule for Dunnabeck One-day & Combined Test
Saturday September 19, 2009

Cross country course will be open for walking at 3:00 PM Friday September 18th (as well as Saturday morning).

Saturday September 19

8:00 AM Dressage, starting with Preliminary Level Combined Test Riders
Followed by Training, Novice, Beginner Novice, Restricted Beginner Novice and Green As Grass

11:00 AM Preliminary will show jump. Followed by Training Level.

Novice Horse Trials riders will show jump next.

All horse trials riders will start on cross country 10 to 15 minutes after they show jump.

Beginner Novice will show jump next, followed by Restricted Beginner Novice and Green as Grass.

This schedule is VERY tentative. It may vary greatly depending on the number and level of entries.