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Viva Las Vegas, Laurie eyes Olympics
It's amazing what a win can do for the spirits, and the ambition. New Zealand's best showjumper, Katie Laurie, discovered that in Las Vegas this week.
It's amazing what a win can do for the spirits, and the ambition. New Zealand's best showjumper, Katie Laurie, discovered that in Las Vegas this week.
Two imported German horses took the top titles on the final day of the Farmlands Horse of the Year Show in Hastings yesterday.
Jock Paget has his sights set firmly on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Thanks to people like Gina Schick, visions of former champion horses being trucked off to pet food factories are proving false.
The country around Clevedon, southeast of Auckland, is parched and brown. Hawks circle slowly in the blue sky and even at 10am, the sun is like a hammer blow. The occasional "Road May Flood" sign seems like a grim joke.
Dumped eventing star Andrew Nicholson could be back in New Zealand's high performance squad by the middle of this year.
Katie Laurie pulled off a fairytale finish when she won the FEI World Cup New Zealand Series final at Woodhill Sands in Auckland yesterday.
Andrew Alderson looks at six of the best horses New Zealanders have ridden in the past 30 years.
Andrew Nicholson made history at the Burghley horse trials today, winning a third straight title on the same horse, his outstanding grey Avebury.
Normally the prospect of seeing the world's 379th-ranked eventer sitting in the top three of the World Equestrian Games might raise a few eyebrows, but not this weekend.
Compartmentalising is a concept to which Paget has become adept since his career crashed abruptly on October 14.
Erik Duvander used to compete against Mark Todd in the early years of the great eventer's riding career.
When Mark Todd says everyone is getting a "little bit jumpy", one of the world's most decorated eventers isn't trying to be funny.
Equestrian Jock Paget has been cleared of any wrongdoing over his horse Clifton Promise failing an anti-doping test last year.
Some put their Olympic gold medals under lock and key, Muhammad Ali claimed to have thrown his into the Ohio River after being denied service at a Louisville restaurant and others put it in their sock drawer.
Jock Paget's chances of representing the New Zealand eventing team at the World Equestrian Games at Normandy this month appear more certain.