IT would be hard to find another family with such a deep history with the Queanbeyan Show, but for the Kier and Cody family, this weekend's show is just another in a participation spanning back some 100 years.
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This year they will field an impressive sixth generation of the family into the show, and across their whole family, will float 35 horses to the Queanbeyan Showground and compete in around 50 individual events.
Across those 50 events they will ride horses across multiple age groups in harness events, hack events and sporting events such as flag racing and barrel racing.
For fourth generation rider Shane Kier, who is the second oldest still alive in his family under his father Peter Kier, it will be his 50th Queanbeyan Show- a milestone he can only think back on as to how far his family has come in show competition.
"My great grandfather won a first place at the show way back in 1947, and my grandfather did the same thing two years later in 1949," Kier said.
"My great grandfather was Charlie Morrison, and back in the day he was well known for driving street cleaner around Queanbeyan with a horse and dray."
"He was about 50 in 1947, which is the earliest Queanbeyan show we know he was in, but he was around 50 years old and we know he rode most of his life, so we think it's been about 100 years of Queanbeyan Shows."
Right down his family from his great grandfather, members of each generation have been frequently active in show horse riding, with his grandparents Billy Kier and Jean Kier riding often before their nine children all came on board as well.
Peter Kier is the eldest member of the family still riding at 78, while Logan Cody is the youngest, at just three years of age.
This year alone they have competed at a huge 17 city and country shows, and the family also has a history at the Canberra Show dating back to 1928.
Shane Kier said the thing he loves most about shows is meeting many different people.
"It's always lovely just meeting new people or people you haven't seen for a long time," he said.
"I ride in harness and sporting events. I think sporting is the real challenge of the show. Shows have got smaller over the years, but we'll always support our local show. We love it."
