Aussie challengers arrive for NZ jumping tour
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A large squad of showjumpers from West Commonwealth of Australia has arrived safely inwards Christchurch on the get-go leg of a two-month New Zealand campaign.
Also arriving yesterday was leading Australian present jumper Alison Rowland, recent winner of the Australian League of the FEI World Cup series. Rowland heads the Australian attack to compete inwards the $50,000 McMillan Equine Feeds Super Grand Prix at Ride The Rhythm inwards Dunedin on Feb 1.
Rowland is amidst the get-go grouping of Australian riders to arrive, along alongside 8 horses who landed at Christchurch International Airport on a flying from Sydney via Auckland early on yesterday, earlier beingness transferred to the National Equestrian Centre at McLeans Island. More are scheduled to go into inwards the coming days, making it the largest Australian contingent e'er to compete on Kiwi soil.
It volition hold upwardly the get-go equestrian upshot to hold upwardly staged inwards the Forsyth Barr Stadium. “The contest inwards Dunedin sounds similar it volition hold upwardly amazing,” Rowland said.
The McMillian Equine Feeds Super Grand Prix is 1 of the highlights of the programme, earlier British popular icons The Hollies ask maintain to the phase for their entirely South Island functioning equally piece of job of their 50th Anniversary World Tour. The Aussies volition come upwardly up against an all-star Kiwi line-up which includes Olympians Katie McVean, Daniel Meech, Maurice Beatson as well as Samantha McIntosh, as well as others.
After much planning, Rowland says it’s corking to finally hold upwardly inwards New Zealand. “It’s been quite stressful trying to larn everything organised. Because nosotros are travelling on to Europe later on competing hither nosotros ask maintain had to pack everything! Now that nosotros are here, it’s a flake of a relief.”
The horses appear to ask maintain coped alongside the journeying pretty well, she says. “Coming from WA they are experienced travellers. It’s closer from Sydney to here, than it is from Sydney to WA. They were all a lilliputian flake tired as well as hungry when they arrived, but they all appear to hold upwardly fine as well as are settling inwards good to their novel surroundings.”
Coming off the dorsum of an impressive season, Rowland is expecting large things from her mares, full-sisters Bickley Brook Bianca as well as Bickley Brook Bella, spell inwards New Zealand, but she’s filled alongside both nervousness as well as excitement nearly the weeks that lay ahead equally they caput direct to Europe inwards a bid to qualify for the Australian squad for the World Equestrian Games inwards Normandy, France, inwards 2014, as well as ultimately the 2016 Olympics inwards Rio de Janeiro.
“It’s a day-to-day proposition. We ask maintain made a programme for the horses, as well as straightaway all nosotros tin create is promise that it goes according to plan. You only never know what’s or as well as then the corner.”
It is the get-go fourth dimension Rowland has been to the South Island. She in conclusion competed hither equally piece of job of an Aussie squad at Isola inwards 1992.
Rowland as well as the residuum of the West Australian army camp caput to Waimate at the halt of the calendar week to compete at the South Canterbury North Otago Area ESNZ 2* show, earlier travelling due south to Dunedin.
Ride The Rhythm is the get-go upshot of the maiden Long White Cloud Tour which volition ask maintain inwards 7 jumping events correct through to Horse of the Year inwards March, as well as has a combined total of to a greater extent than than $350,000 inwards prize coin upwardly for grabs. Other events on the tour are the New Zealand National Showjumping Championships as well as the Canterbury Championships, which are both inwards Christchurch, followed past times the 1 star Manfeild Park inwards Feilding, the 3 star Taranaki Showjumping Championships inwards Hawera, as well as the get-go of the trans-Tasman tests beingness held at the Church Road Winery inwards Hawke’s Bay, the weekend earlier the Horse of the Year Show.
More information: www.ridetherhythm.co.nz
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