3 days ago
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
Loved by the rich and famous, this horse sport is taking off in Australia
It's 6.15pm on an unseasonably warm Saturday evening at Snake Creek Cattle Company in Werai in NSW's Southern Highlands. Trying to find a spare seat in the crammed wooden grandstands that overlook the enclosed 60-metre-long sand arena is impossible.
Although we're a 90-minute drive south of Sydney's CBD and surrounded by Snake Creek's 565 hectares of grassy paddocks, it feels like half the city's eastern suburbs are here. The audience: teenage girls punctuating their Ralph Lauren denim-on-denim looks with $700 cowboy hats from Tamworth label Phylli; tech bros showing off their shiny new square-toed cowboy boots; a household-name Australian fashion designer putting a yee-haw spin on one of her signature flouncy skirts; and members of the local well-heeled farming set all clad in identical snap-button navy shirts and indigo jeans.
