The OEA’s Adult Rider Team Challenge is back for 2025 and with a Year-End Finale!

This adult rider team challenge gives OEA members aged 21 years and older a chance to compete in a friendly team competition with their friends and peers across the province! Riders may register as a team or as an individual (we will do our best to match individual riders to a team). Teams may be made up of three or four riders and can be at different levels and different locations across the province.

Team members earn individual scores at every sanctioned Ontario horse trial they attend. Point scores will be calculated and added to a leaderboard maintained by the OEA. To determine the winning team, the OEA will take each rider’s best three scores over the season. Teams with four members may drop their highest score.

Riders are free to join more than one team on different horses or to join one team with multiple horses, which must be listed on the Adult Rider Team Challenge registration form and the Rider may enter any of the listed horses in a given HT.

• If only one horse is entered in a HT, then that score counts towards the Team Challenge score.

• If more than one horse is entered in any given HT, the Rider is asked to send an email to info@ontarioeventing.ca declaring, before the HT starts, which horse’s score will count towards their Team Challenge total for that HT. If the rider does not declare, the OEA will use an average of the scores earned by each horse entered by the Rider at the HT as the score for the Team Challenge.

And new for 2025: an Adult Rider Team Challenge Year-End Finale will be held at the Wits End Fall HTs on October 12, 2025 where teams will compete for final year-end placings, with ribbons to sixth and prizes for podium finishes.

Find more information and details on scoring here: https://www.ontarioeventing.ca/annual-awards/high-point-awards