UKI Sporting Horse Grounds were ablaze with colour and activity over the weekend with crack riders and horses from near and far in action at the annual Uki Campdraft.

More than 150 riders and close to 300 horses contested the campdraft events across a range of categories and for all ages from kids as young as eight up to septuagenarians.

There were chestnut horses, grey horses, blacks, bays, browns, piebalds, palominos and pintos – all ridden by riders wearing the ubiquitous blue jeans but wearing shirts and neckerchiefs of all colours of the rainbow.

Uki Sporting Horse Association's Jennifer Kearney, described conditions as perfect and the performances in the ring as “outstanding”.

“Each of the events was hotly contested and riders and horses displayed some wonderful teamwork which had the big crowd clapping with delight,” Kearney said.

The most successful riders at the weekend were Beaudesert pair Tim Rohan and Kimberley Salmon and Craig Sheppard, who hails from Peak Crossing near Ipswich.

Rohan piloted his stockhorse mare, Corina, to victory in the Novice event which attracted a mammoth 219 entries and later finished second aboard Betty behind Kimberley Salmon (Miss Moor Lynx) in the Maiden class.

Salmon's victory in the Maiden followed her second placing, filling the saddle aboard Pistol Packing Lena in the Open class which was won by Craig Sheppard on Sterling.

Sheppard's eight-year-old son, Mac, was one of the stars of the campdraft, snaring a top score of 22 in the junior cut-out.