Val Lederhose is a proud grandmother to the Lewis sisters, and was eager to spread the remarkable results of the team penning event.

“They did absolutely brilliantly. We couldn’t believe it,” she said.

“Our two girls have been riding since they were two-and-a-half. The three of them have been a team for, well, some months now, but they’re really getting into it, and they love it.

“They’ve been over to Grafton, down to Gravesend, down to Moonbi, they’ve been travelling, the three of them as a team. Brilliant.”

Lederhose said she had followed the girls since they started pony club and then into team penning.

“It’s only recently that its taken off around here,” she said.

“And it’s so much fun to watch the kids, and when they can beat the adults; oh, brilliant!”

Bundarra Show Society president Matthew Doak agreed the team’s performance was a stunner. He said the competition had been part of the show for three years and the team were contestants from the beginning.

“They’re always pretty consistent with placings in the juniors,” Doak said.

“They’re doing a pretty good job at it really. It is a team event, you’ve got to have good horses and work as a team, and if they keep doing it together, I think they’re only going to get better and better.”

Doak said the society would hold onto the Team Penning as event because it was growing in popularity.

“As quick as you open the entries they fill up,” he said.

This year Graham Francisco, Nicki Taylor and Candice Senior won the Team Penning Open Section, while Russell Hamel, Virginia McCosker and Sharon Hall took out second place and Jillian Hall, Pat McMahon and Fran Fleming came in third.