TOP young German rider Lydia Camp will officiate at this year's PSI Dressage and Jumping with the Stars at Werribee Park later this month.
Lydia, a former European Pony Championship gold medallist and four-time Bundeschampionship Pony winner, will ride the top three ponies in the four and five-year-old groups to determine the winner.
For the finalists, this is a unique opportunity to have their ponies ridden and assessed by one of Europe's most successful dressage pony rider.
Many of Lydia's major dressage pony successes were with the elegant palomino mare Dulcia, including winning the Bundeschampionships twice.
They captured the individual bronze and team gold medals at the 2003 European Pony Championships and the individual and team gold medals at the 2006 European Pony Championships.
Young dressage pony classes were first introduced at Dressage and Jumping with the Stars last year. But only a four-year-old class was offered and this attracted only a few entrants.
This year, the pony program has been expanded to include a five-year-old class and the event organisers have been rewarded, with entries more than trebling from last year.
The four-year-old class is the most popular, with 12 entrants, while there are eight entrants in the class for five-year-olds.
