Blog

Gidday Sit Tighters, A wrap up of 2020, the year that flew by! It was a year for some innovative broadcasts that’s for sure. This year we announced that all our shows would be free to tune in and listen. We even have a podcast show available where you get your podcasts from, itunes orRead more

Gidday Sit Tighters! Australia is separated by the state borders due to the Covid Crisis but our eventers are united to keep our sport going in one form or another. This month we have the Sit Tight Radio New Show featuring state representatives- Carlene Barton, NSW. Lesley Brodbeck, Qld. and Megan Jones, SA. Listen LiveRead more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What a year it has been Sittighters!! Hard to believe it has been nearly 8 months since we did our first live coverage for 2018 from Equestriad but there is nothing like starting the year with a bang. 600 plus combinations, huge entries in all the “Put on your big pants” star classes, 1 star showjumpingRead more

Here comes Adelaide!! We all have our favourites we reckon will be on the podium! OK now is the time to get your tip in writing, here’s the rules and the link to enter. The winning tipster of each competition receives $100 Woolies shopping card.   FOR THE CCI 2*, CCI 4* &  CIC 3*Read more

As usual the weather was the topic of conversation at the “Lynton” NSW Championships. No snow in sight but chilly winds were a plenty, keeping everyone rugged up. The CIC 2 star had thirty five starters, including five interstate riders, Amanda Ross, Asha Warnock and Florence (great name, according to Hasibar) Goodwin from Victoria andRead more

Hi Sit Tighters! Even though the winter blues are trying hard to keep us down, the Eventing action on the other side of the world is certainly doing a good job of heating up our screens! After Melbourne International 3DE all eyes were upon Luhmühlen CCI 4*. Shane Rose jetted off from Melbourne to rideRead more

Enormous thanks to our broadcast sponsor Bimbadeen Park, Shane and Niki Rose. Thanks also to Pine Park Farrier Services, Paul Slattery, farrier and eventer for supporting the Tipping comp. Kicking off the event Lindsey “Nairny” Constable and I took our possie at the end of the runway for Thursday afternoon “trot up”. If you haven’tRead more

Well the eventing season has been up and galloping since early February and a lot of the post festive season kgs. have melted away from both horses and riders in the sauna that is Aussie summer/Autumn competition. Riders were loving the new scoring system for dressage which gave most of us penalties that only IngridRead more