KEY POINTS:
New Zealand have three riders and four horses in the top 16 with one day to go at the Badminton Horse Trials.
Andrew Nicholson had two superb cross country rides on his two horses, Henry Tankerville and Lord Killinghurst.
Joe Meyer, on Snip, and Caroline Powell on Lenamore also completed faultless rounds which kept them on their dressage scores and pulled them right up the placings.
Meyer moved up from 27th to 11th on 48.2 penalties and Powell from 38th to 16th on 51.2 penalties.
Nicholson's Henry Tankerville is now in sixth place on 45.2 penalties just 9.6 behind the overnight leader Lucinda Fredericks who stormed around the cross country course to retain the lead in spite of 0.8 time faults for being two seconds over the time.
Fredericks' lead has been cut to just 0.2 penalties over American Kim Severson who lies second on 35.8 following a clear round.
Lord Killinghurst is ninth place on 46.2 penalties, just 10.6 behind the leader with showjumping to go.
- NZPA
