Camden Team Sorting and Campdraft Club

Well Saturday afternoon threw us a curve ball. The storm that initially looked like it was going to go around us decided to hit instead. The rain it dumped resulted in the arenas ending up in a gluggy slippery mess. Didn't look to bad until you tried to walk on it - yeah nah.
It's such a shame because prior to that everyone seemed to be having a great day - probably with the exception of poor Pete who took a nasty fall. He's still in hospital with some broken bits but we've been told he's on the improve enough to start giving the nurses cheek. Thank you to all that helped Pete with special mention to Tanya, Monique and De'hanne.
We made the difficult decision to cancel Sunday as the condition of the arena surfaces were just not safe to proceed. It was great to see some of you make the most of it and take advantage of the lovely grounds and enjoy a ride out through the park on Sunday.
The Training Sessions were once again very well received, so thanks Norm for sharing your time and expertise and as usual a huge thank you to all of you that give your time to help us run the events. There's always lots to be done to keep it all running so your help with cattle, organising riders in and out of the pens, timekeeping, doing coaching runs etc. is greatly appreciated.
As mentioned in a previous post refunds of Sundays entry fee's are available or you
can choose to have your money held over in credit toward the next event. If you do wish to get a refund could you please message the page ASAP as I would like to get them processed as soon as possible.
The results and happy snaps for Saturday are below so congratulations to all winners and placegetters.

REMINDER: Entries for 7th & 8th of March open at 9am TODAY!

It's going to take me a couple of days before I get back to you so don't panic if your message appears to be unopened.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

‼️ATTENTION PLEASE📢‼️
Newcomers and Novices
Training Sessions are back for 2026

Due to the success of the previous Training sessions we're going to run these again at the March Event.
2 sessions will be run on each of the mornings with approx. 8 riders per session and are designed for anyone who is new to working cattle, those wanting to work on their skills or as an introduction to cattle for young horses away from the pressures of the Competition arenas.

➡️Each session will run for around an hour and a half and the cost per session per rider will be $50.00. To book in for a session please add this to your entry details.

➡️You can do a training session in the morning and then have your 3 runs after your session has finished.

The feedback that we got after we ran these before was extremely positive with many participants commenting on how beneficial they found the sessions and how much they enjoyed them.

If you're new to our Team Sorting events and unsure of which division to nominate for or if you're a current competitor thinking about pushing yourself a little more 😉 the updated 2026 Division Classification information is as follows.

‼️Reminder ‼️
Entries open for the 7th and 8th of March event on
💥SUNDAY 15.2.26 at 9.00am💥
The information you'll need for your entries is below but please remember that no early entries will be accepted.

⏰💥 It's time to set your alarms 💥⏰

Our first event for 2026 will be held on
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of March.
👉Entries will open👈
❗️Sunday 15.2.2026 at 9.00am ❗️

More details will be posted in the next few days so watch this space
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NO EARLY ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED

📣📣❗️REMINDER ❗️📣📣
It's nearly time to kick off our 2026 season with our first event for the year being 7th and 8th of March.
More information will follow but for now make sure you add these dates to your calendars🙂

Wrap up and Results from Sunday 7.12.25
Firstly, apologies for how long this has taken me to get this post done. Life got a bit busy 🤪but finally got to putting this together. Thanks to all of you that sent photo’s in for me.

The weather played much nicer for us on Sunday although there were a couple of “fresh” horses about that were showing their enjoyment of the cooler conditions🫣🤭. Everybody soon settled and it ended up being a great day of Sorting. Thanks to all our riders for being mindful of the cattle on both days.

The Christmas Parade made a reappearance again this year and although a bit smaller in numbers than some previous years there was still a fabulous effort put in by those who decked out themselves and their horses in Christmas gear. Mrs Claus judged the best presented to be young Evie Briggs who was at one of our events for the first time with her Grandmother Sue.

One of the many things I love about Team Sorting is that it’s such a family sport. We have many families that come and compete at the same event but in many instances can’t actually have a run together. The Old Hands and Young Guns event that we finally got to run on Sunday afternoon gave them the chance to do this as well as other “Old Hands” having a chance to ride with and encourage our up-and-coming “Young Guns”. It was great to see everyone really enjoying themselves with many of the Young Guns showing the “older folk” how it should be done. We even had a mum who’d never sorted before who nervously got herself into the ring with her daughter to have a run for the first time, had a good go at it and looked like she loved it.

Following are the results for the day so please join me in congratulating all our winners and placegetters.