Solway Equestrian Academy

Entires are now open!!

Head to Main-Events.com to enter now, we’re so excited to see you all again in a few weeks time
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Entries close on Tuesday 15th of September, don’t miss out on a fantastic fun day of Dressage!!

2026 North Island Secondary School Champions🏆

So incredibly proud of these girls, all of their hard work and dedication with their horses has made this achievement happen 💚🤍

An amazing week at the NEC, proud of all of our Solway College riders and how they have represented our school over the past four days. It’s been wonderful to see the sportsmanship, teamwork and support they have shown throughout the week.

A huge thank you must go out to our support crew - our coaches Tinks Pottinger, Francesca Silver-Carter and Kate Klingender, as well as all of our fantastic Solway College parents and caregivers who we really couldn’t do this without.

Thank you to the event sponsors and organisers for making this event happen, it’s a mammoth task and we are extremely grateful to you all for putting this event on for our young Equestrians.

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Have you got this date in your diary?
It’s going to be a great event 💚💙

SAVE THE DATE ‼️

Solway Colleges interschools Dressage day is approaching. Entries are NOT open yet.

This is going to be a fantastic evening, follow the link below to enter your team! 😀🐴

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxUzkK-7Hbkbu1-P6_hjhWnzGsyMTFVRcZQrJ7mMUWqTSd6Q/viewform

💚🤍 Excitingly, next month we will be holding a quiz night! This is another wonderful fundraiser, this time for our sports teams going off to their respective tournaments during the annual tournament week! We are so excited to see our athletes represent Solway College at these events.

Here are the details you need to know:
💚 This event is strictly R18 due to the sale of alcohol on the night.
🤍 Please see further details on the poster.
💚 Register your team here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxUzkK-7Hbkbu1-P6_hjhWnzGsyMTFVRcZQrJ7mMUWqTSd6Q/viewform

We can't wait to see you there supporting our school community!

NISS Eventing 2026 💚💙🤍

All the girls did great over the weekend, lots of learning and great fun.

It was awesome to come home with the Team Spirit/ Sportmanship award 🏆

The event was run wonderfully - big thanks to the awesome parents, organisers and committee.

Well done girls -

Phoebe Wilkie
Caitlyn Hughes
Bridie King
Lucy Bourke
Jane Shelton

Thank you to everyone who took the time to go and vote for our Solway College Team’s video, we really do appreciate it! 💚🤍

And of course a huge thank you to Bayleys Real Estate & Generate KiwiSaver for their amazing sponsorship!

Our team sets off tomorrow morning on the big trip north for this exciting event.

The results are in for the Bayleys Real Estate and Generate KiwiSaver Travel Grant Awards.

The winner of the public vote, with a strong result, is Solway College. The recipient of the Pegasus Cup team selection is Otamatea High School.

Each of these schools will receive $1,000 to help support their travel to the Generate Pegasus Cup 2026.

A big thank you to Bayleys Real Estate and Generate KiwiSaver for sponsoring the Travel Grant Awards and helping make it possible for more schools to attend this year’s event.

Last week we had four teams take part in Nga Tawa Equestrian Interschools at Mansfield Park, Fielding.

Well done to all of our Solway riders, we had some great individual results on the day, and our Solway Green team (riders listed below) placed 3rd in the overall teams event.

🐴Naya Boone & Partly Cloudy
🐴Phoebe Wilkie & My Razzle Dazzle
🐴Renee Ford & Captain Morgan
🐴Farrah Smith & Mustangs Sugar and Spice

Thank you Nga Tawa for hosting us, at what is always a great day!

We had a fabulous day yesterday at St Matthew’s Jumping day.

Well done to all of our Solway College riders, thank you to the event organisers and sponsors for a wonderful day, and to our Solway College caregivers and parents for their support yesterday.

Well done to our Solway college Red Team on placing 2nd in the overall teams event, and taking out overall local team!

🐴Ruby McKenzie - Bonnie
🐴Taylor Heynes - Captivate
🐴Rhylee Cu***ng - Speights Gold
🐴 Demi Smith - Hololio Too Shelf

Lots of great individual results for our riders (too many to list) but a special well done to Demi Smith & Jane Shelton who took away Reserve Champion in their height divisions!

Demi Smith also took out the Overall Local rider of the day!