One to watch: eventer Chivas Royale
Palmerston North’s Laura Knight has won this year’s prestigious Saddlery Barn South Island Young Event Horse Championship aboard her four-year-old thoroughbred gelding Chivas Royale.
Held equally the precursor to the principal event, the NZCT South Island FEI Three Day Event which gets nether means today with the dressage phase, the immature resultant course of education is opened upward to rising equine stars of the time to come aged 4 too v years.
Knight was real surprised with the win. Chivas Royale was a racetrack turn down past times the sire His Royal Highness.
Fourteen combinations started, including 6 four-year-olds too exclusively ii mares. It was judged across dressage (30%), present jumping (30%), crusade too conformation (20%), too gallop suitable for cross Earth (20%) past times an international line-up which headed past times president of the Earth jury Nicoli Fife, who has been on the Earth jury at international events worldwide including Badminton, Kentucky too the Asian Games, judging the present jumping phase.
The dressage was judged past times visiting U.K. guess Gill Makey-Harfield amongst South Canterbury’s Stuart Bishell, spell Kumeu’s Winky Foley judged the conformation.
It was a tightly fought battle, with piddling separating leaders Julie Batchelor’s S.E. Godswalk, ridden past times Brent Jury, too Katharine Gilllaly (Woodville) on Double J Sunshine, earlier the gallop phase. Knight was sitting inward 6th going into the gallop, exactly catapulted herself upward the leaderboard with a stunning display to ask maintain the Best Four Year Old too Overall laurels on a amount compass of 70.04.
Gillaly took instant too Best Five Year Old with Double J Sunshine, a boy of Repecharge, on 69.1, spell tertiary went to West Melton’s Kristen Beaven too the Thoroughbred RV Dreamcatcher on 68.8. S.E. Godswalk, a fille of the Canterbury-based warmblood sire Kinnordy Gym Bello, finished 4th too was the Best Performed Mare for the instant twelvemonth running.
The principal activeness inward the South Island Three Day Event volition larn nether means today with the dressage stage for all classes.
Aside from course of education honours, competitors inward the CCI2* volition also survive vying for the Swarbrick Trophy for the National Young Rider Three Day Event champion, spell those inward the CCI1* volition survive fighting it out for the Lenamore Trophy for National Junior Rider Three Day Event champion.
Entries across all levels are potent with to a greater extent than than 200 combinations taking purpose including a potent North Island contingent.
RESULTS: Saddlery Barn Young Event Horse – Laura Knight (Palmerston North) Chivas Royale, 70.04, 1; Katharine Gillaly (Woodville) Double J Sunshine, 69.1, 2; Kirsten Beaven (West Melton) RV Dreamcatcher, 68.8, 3; Brent Jury (Rangiora) S.E. Godswalk, 67.72, 4; Emily Cammock (West Melton) Cavorts (owned past times Kay Buckley) 66.28, 5; Tayla Mason (Paraparaumu) Mosaic II, 66.23, 6. Best Four Year Old – Chivas Royale. Best Five Year Old – Double J Sunshine. Best Performed Mare – S.E. Godswalk.
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