NZ puissance record to be challenged
A $70,000 bonus is inwards the offing for the showjumper who tin transcend New Zealand’s tiptop tape yesteryear 8cm inwards a puissance contest inwards Dunedin adjacent year.
Allan Goodall’s long-standing tape volition live fair game at the Forsyth Barr Stadium every bit purpose of Ride The Rhythm inwards February.
The bonus is inwards add-on to the $5000 prize money.
Goodall’s the tape was ready dorsum inwards 1984 at the Highland Games inwards Hasting when he cleared 2.13m riding Skud, breaking Stuart Mitchell’s 14-year tape of 2.12 metres ready at the Tomoana Showgrounds aboard Jatent inwards 1970.
Undoubtedly 1 of the highlights of the Ride The Rhythm equestrian programme, the puissance volition run into a star-studded draw of piece of occupation upward of Australasia’s transcend jumpers set aside their fears every bit they bound into the unknown.
Puissance competitions were commonplace during the 1970s as well as 80s, but straight off they are rarely seen inwards New Zealand. Translated from French, “puissance” agency power, as well as that’s precisely what’s going to live needed if Goodall’s tape is to tumble, he adds.
Horse as well as passenger combinations volition commence yesteryear attempting a course of written report of 4 to vi fences ranging inwards tiptop upwards from 1.4metres which volition include the GJ Gardner wall. As the rounds of the contest progress, the jumps volition live raised higher until but 2 obstacles, including the wall, remain. Only the Equus caballus or horses that clear the lastly circular volition live eligible to seek for the $70,000 as well as ultimately write their way into the history books, Hansen explains.
Although 2.21m (7ft 3½in) is seemingly unobtainable it is good brusk of the electrical flow globe indoor puissance record, which is held yesteryear High German passenger Frankie Sloothaak, who jumped 2.4m (7 ft 10 in) aboard Optiebeurs Golo inwards Kingdom of Belgium inwards 1991, breaking his previous tape assault Leonardo.
At lastly year’s British Horse of the Year Show 2 riders – Nottinghamshire’s Joe Clayton, alongside Nick Ward’s riding Leonardo, as well as Scotland’s Douglas Duffin on Volcano – shared the honours afterwards clearing a whopping 2.20m (7ft 3in) inwards the 5th as well as lastly round. Last calendar month British passenger Tim Gredley proved to live 1 of the world’s bravest riders when he clear 2.13m (7ft) wall aboard his talented mountain Unex Valente inwards the $50,000 Puissance at the Alltech National Horse Show inwards the United States.
The puissance volition live but 1 of the climaxes of Ride The Rhythm’s high-octane equestrian programme which includes the $50,000 McMillian Equine Feeds Super Grand Prix inwards the lead-up to British supergroup, The Hollies’, 50th anniversary tour performance.
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