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After an extended break caused by COVID and floods, the Far North Coast Dressage Championships will be held on Saturday and Sunday this weekend.

Summerland Dressage Club will be hosting the Far North Coast Dressage Championships this weekend at the Bangalow Showgrounds.

This will be the first time that what has historically been an annual event will be run after having to be canceled in recent years owing firstly to Covid and then to the floods.

The event offers a wide program of dressage competition over two days from Preliminary level through to the highest of the international levels, Grand Prix.

This competition will showcase young riders, amateur-owner riders and elite professional riders from New South Wales and interstate.

Competitors will be judged by high-profile local and interstate nationally accredited judges.

The Far North Coast Dressage Championships is offering free admission for spectators.

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