NZ’s young rider eventing champs this weekend

Defending Junior entitle holder Sarah Young as well as Oakley Vision on the cross-country final year. © Barbara Thomson

The 2013 New Zealand Young Rider as well as Junior Rider Eventing Championships postulate keep house this weekend at the Rotorua A&P Showgrounds at Ngongotaha, alongside the cross-country running over the following Ngati Whakaue Tribal Lands. 

Sarah Young as well as Oakley Vision. © Barbara Thomson

This is the minute successive twelvemonth these prestigious championships postulate keep taken house at Rotorua, sponsored past times Dunstan Horse Feeds, alongside the Young Riders (under 21) vying for the coveted Charisma Trophy at Intermediate level, as well as the Junior Riders (under 17) for the Hoffman Trophy at Novice level.

Bing Allen designs the cross-country course, which is ever beautifully presented, as well as the challenging entitle classes meet terra firma inwards opposite lodge of standings, as well as hence the excitement builds every bit the rival progresses. H5N1 amount schedule of classes from Training through to Advanced/Intermediate is too run, as well as hence a amount day’s activeness is assured.

Nine Young Riders volition rival their entitle class, all having qualified at Intermediate level, although ane is good performed inwards Advanced competitions. This is Ashleigh McKinstry (King Country) on Pioneer Makokomiko, winners of the Puhinui 3* Three-day Event, who postulate keep an unassailable atomic number 82 inwards the Massey University Young Rider series, every bit good every bit lying minute inwards the Bell Tea Super League, merely postulate keep nonetheless to win this title.

Ten Junior Riders volition rival their championship, alongside final year’s winners, Sarah Young (Tokoroa) as well as Clarke Johnstone’s one-time international Equus caballus Oakley Vision, defending their title. Young too rides Vaughn Jefferis’s High’n’Dry inwards the Young Rider championship, as well as hence is making the nearly of the chance to ride such good performed schoolhouse masters.

She leads the Alltech Junior serial on High’n’Dry, as well as is minute behind McKinstry inwards the Young Rider series, beingness eligible for both. The entitle classes earn extra points inwards their respective series, the Massey University Young Rider serial as well as the Alltech Junior Rider series, both of which run throughout the year, culminating at the NRM National Three-day Event at Taupo inwards May.

 

 

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