Jock Paget and Tim Price have positioned themselves ideally for a strong push in the cross country stage at the Kentucky four star eventing trial tomorrow.

One of horse racing's most revered jumpers will be banned from competition in Australia at the end of the 2015-16 season.

Todd and Paget seem sure to be in Rio for August's Olympic Games, and good medal chances once more as well.

New Zealand's two most successful Olympic eventers could team up again in Rio this year.

All Black and Blues prop Charlie Faumuina and jockey Mark Du Plessis talk about their big sporting weekend. Faumuina will battle the Hurricanes at Eden Park tonight and Du Plessis will saddle up in half a dozen Auckland Cup Day races tomorrow.

Michelle Payne's Melbourne Cup win on Prince of Penzance struck a blow against sporting misogyny.

Obstacles have loomed as regularly as fences and jumps for former world and Olympic eventing champion Blyth Tait in his comeback, but his Rio Games dream remains alive.

Veteran rider Andrew Nicholson's neck injury shocked the equestrian community but New Zealand's two Olympic eventing gold medallists say the sport has never been safer.

Andrew Nicholson has undergone successful surgery to repair the injury to his neck suffered during a fall from his horse.

Nicholson fell after the last fence on the cross-country course at Gatcombe Park, where he was in the lead.

Top New Zealand event rider Andrew Nicholson is in hospital in Oxford after suffering a neck injury at a British event.

Andrew Nicholson's chances of being selected for a record eighth Olympics have improved.

Kiwi sporting officials want answers from Olympic organisers after a deadly horse disease was discovered at the Rio 2016 equestrian venue.

Another top class performance from a NZ eventer yesterday rammed home the country's standing in the equine world, yet qualification for the Olympics has still to be confirmed.