PHOTO: Riders in action at Hermidale gymkhana
NYNGAN horse trainer Rodney Robb might have had six horses racing at Bourke on Easter Sunday but he chose instead to go the Hermidale Gymkhana where he compared the horse events and watched his six grandchildren compete.
“I sent my strapper up to Bourke because I was involved in our gymkhana at Hermidale, about 45kms west of Nyngan,” Robb said.
“I first started going to it when I was 11, and I was 68 on my last birthday.”
Rodney is part of a small committee which has kept the bush gymkhana tradition alive and also raised valuable funds for the Hermidale community…