Horse Festival Renamed

The Scone and Upper Hunter Horse Festival has once again become the Scone Horse Festival.

The decision was made by the committee last week and president Lee Watts explained the reasons behind the change.

“The committee is going back to the Scone Horse Festival because each major town in the Upper Hunter Shire now has a major event of their own which is fantastic,” Mrs Watts said.

“Merriwa has the Festival of the Fleeces, Murrurundi is on the map for the King of the Ranges and Aberdeen’s Highland Games is going from strength to strength,” she said.

“It is brilliant that these towns each have an annual event which attracts tourists and they are all growing,” she said.

“In terms of the events during the Horse Festival they are centred in Scone and since Scone is the Horse Capital of Australia.

“There have been several name changes for the festival from Scone Horse Week Festival in May 1987 and then changing to Scone and Upper Hunter Horse Festival in 2010 and it just seemed sensible to simply be the Scone Horse Festival again,” Lee Watts said.