Sydney beckons for battling Tinks

Tinks Pottinger, mother of two and hard-toiling farmer, knows it will not be easy to get a ride at the Sydney Olympics. But yesterday the Seoul Olympic bronze medallist and her cheeky horse Good Fun wrote their names on the long list for the three-day equestrian team at the 2000 Games. The pair successfully defended their three-star title in the Auckland Airport-Qantas event at Puhinui, which should put them in the running for an Olympic start. Victory was a huge relief to Pottinger after a tough year -- in the water, where Good Fun kept dumping her, and on the land.