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Gidday Sit Tighters, It’s early August, time for all Aussie horses to have a little party, hope everyone managed to share a special treat with our 4 legged friends! The August News Show goes live on Monday 3rd of August at 6PM. Click LISTEN LIVE on the app to hear all the latest Eventing news. CarleneRead more

Gidday Sit Tighters! It’s seems like forever ago, the 2020 eventing season was getting underway. The Aussie drought was at it’s worst and then the devastating bush fires!  End of March and our whole world changed. Here we are, the new financial year, let’s hope it brings our eventing season back to life! During theRead more

It’s the simple pleasure of Easter Eggs this weekend, which is something we can enjoy. With no events, holidays ending and home schooling about to begin, thank goodness for chocolate! We are reaching out to our Sit Tight Radio listeners, to ask you if you would like to be part of our fortnightly news show?Read more

The April News show is LIVE Monday 6th April at 6PM. Our panel is Jade Findlay, a young man from W.A. now based in N.S.W. Will Baxter, Amanda Ross, Prue Barrett, Alex Townsend and Fiona. Our panel chat about plans, getting things done and staying motivated. Other news is we’ve got a new Bronze Partner!Read more

2020! Who could’ve have predicted  how sideswiped we all feel right now! What a crazy roller-coaster of a ride we’ve all been on! Since the beginning of 2020 the sport we love and share we has endured everything our Australian weather could throw at it. Drought, fire and then all the rain for us onRead more

Everyone should’ve updated the app! WHY!!? This year we have a new app so everyone can listen FREE! Yep, so giddy up and sort out the new app before the News Show Monday, 6PM. It’s the beginning of March, what does that mean? It’s time for the News Show! This month tune in for JadeRead more

Gidday Sit Tighters, As you probably know Sit Tight Radio has been covering live events and bringing ­­interesting news to the sport of Eventing for over four years now. To date our costs (including internet fees, streaming engines and technical support) have been covered by sponsors and listener subscriptions. However, we now feel that SitRead more

Sit Tight Radio have grabbed the bit – in an effort to join the fund raising for the bush fire crisis many Aussie Equestrian riders, coaches and personalities have autographed Wallaby Hill 2020 calendar. It can be yours! The funds raised will be split 50/50 and between RFS NSW and Victorian CFA. Autographs and messagesRead more

Sit Tight Radio had a fabulous 2019, covering our Aussie events live cross country day and brought you the monthly News Show. I’d like to thank all my co commentators that called the action in true sit tight style, I’ll try to not leave anyone out so let’s go from the beginning. Equestriad, Merran WallaceRead more

The tipping competition is now open but if you missed the Adelaide Preview on the November News you could be at sea with who’s who! Listen in to Prue Barrett and Fi chat with Heath Ryan and discuss all of the classes. Lindsey caught up with Mike ES to get the scoop of the new thingsRead more

Hooting down the Hume freeway on Friday afternoon should’ve been fairly boring. Two phone calls from neighbours and I’m wondering if the cruiser, the blue couch, the dogs and I should spin around to defend our little house from the now outta control fire. Which was in control two hours before!! Na! We can’t missRead more

5 years seems like yesterday but it is actually an eternity ago! In 2014 the first broadcast from the Sit Tight Radio commentary team took place at Goulburn “Lynton” horse trials. To give you the background, Sit Tight Radio was born primarily due to myself and Marcia Williamson’s sense of humour about riding horses inRead more

Time flies!  It’s well into the second half of 2019, the July and August News Shows are available if you missed them live. So here’s a reminder to be listening on the first Monday of every month at 6PM.  During the final Taupo Talk show Fiona and Sam Lyle discuss the Aussie Team outcome atRead more

Woo Hoo! Not only is almost time for me to pack my bags and microphone for the upcoming Melbourne International 3day event this coming weekend, but it’s also time to share some pretty special news. We’ve been offered a fantastic sponsorship opportunity from SuccessMasters (a lot of you might know Michele Nash the owner asRead more

Hi Sit Tighters, Hope you enjoyed Taupo Talk with Laura Rae! What an event for our Aussie team, it became a test event for the new teams scoring system for the Tokyo Olympics. It was a new concept of scoring to grasp, nothing that a scientist from NASA would shy away from, mere Eventers wereRead more

There’s a new release of “YEARLY” subscriptions, great value for our listeners as we’ve got 3 broadcasts coming up in the next short while. Monday 6th May, The New Show. This month, we chat to Craig Barrett, thanks to Sandhills, about breeding future Eventers. The Taupo 3DE Oceania Championships 2019 Australian Teams Challenge, reporter onRead more

We’re excited to announce Kelato as a sponsor for the upcoming Sydney 3DE broadcast. Kelato’s GastroHEALTH, the EXCITING BRAND NEW PRODUCT from the leaders in gastric health, is finally here! So what is GastroHEALTH? We all know that the health of your horse reflects the health of their gut. Maintaining good gut function is essentialRead more

All the stars were shining at Equestriad! Of the 18 horse and rider combinations announced as team hopefuls for the Oceanic Teams Challenge 12 of the senior team and 1 young rider were out in force. Saturday morning our broadcast kicked off for the CCI 4* dressage, I was accompanied by Merran Wallace. Merran isRead more

Sydney Eventing @SIEC kicked off the 2019 Season absolutely perfectly! The weather and the going could not have been better! Our sport is extremely fortunate to have the 2000 Olympic venue in pristine condition, in fact, they are still making improvements! The CCN4* was well supported with entries, possibly due to the upcoming Trans TasmanRead more

A new show every month and the EARLY BIRD sale.  The 2019 Eventing season is about to kick off which is the time of year we release the EARLY BIRD special offer. This offer entitles subscribers to all live events covered for 2019, which will include all overseas events, all interviews throughout the year andRead more