Olivia Inglis: Hundreds of mourners remember 17yo killed in Hunter Valley horse riding accident.

By Mazoe Ford.

Hundreds of mourners have packed a Sydney church and spilled out into surrounding gardens to remember 17-year-old Olivia Inglis, who was killed in a horse riding accident last week in the Hunter Valley.

The Inglis family, known for its global bloodstock auction agency, was joined by Olivia’s school friends and members of the equestrian community for the service.

Also in attendance were big names from the horse racing industry including Gai Waterhouse, Tom Magnier, as well as Inglis chairman and Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates.

The teen was remembered as a happy and loving girl who had a passion for horses and eventing.

Leading the tributes was her mother Charlotte Inglis, who said her daughter was always a joy to be around.

“There is very little that Olivia needed in life – the love of her family, her friends and her horses,” Ms Inglis told the congregation at St Jude’s Church in Randwick in Sydney’s East.

“She had big goals and she worked tirelessly on these every day.”

Ms Inglis said her daughter’s love for horses was obvious from an early age.

“Olivia graduated from ponies and with her first horse … she won the Pony Club NSW Novice Eventing Championship as a 12-year-old,” she said.

“Her path was now determined and we set off towards Equestrian Australia competing and an eventing focus.

“She wanted to do all the hard yards herself.”

Olivia remembered as ‘the most beautiful human being’

Other eulogies were given by Olivia’s father Arthur, sisters Antoinette and Alexandra and her best friend Sophia Estigneev.

“I can’t explain the comfort I felt in your presence and the mere happiness your company brought me,” Miss Estigneev told the congregation.

“Olivia, you are the most beautiful human being I have ever come across and will ever have the pleasure of coming across in my entire life.”

Miss Estigneev said she and Olivia became friends one lunch time years earlier when they were designing super hero costumes, adding when they grew up they both wanted to be super heroes.

She spoke of the fun they had and their shared passion for horses.

“You will forever be my other half, my partner in crime, my best friend, always in my heart,” she said.

“I will love you and miss you more than you could possibly know.

“You always used to tell me that if a friendship lasts longer than seven years psychologists say it’ll last a lifetime – it did.”

A scholarship for young eventing riders has been set up in Olivia’s name.

The Scone Horse Trials Organising Committee initiated the fundraising by donating the remainder of the prize money from the 2016 March event to the memorial scholarship fund.

This post originally appeared on ABC News.