NZ horse claims inaugural Asian eventing champs
Hong Kong rider Annie Ho has claimed the private championship at the maiden FEI Asian Eventing Championships at Pattaya inwards Thailand, riding old New Zealand racehorse Super Combed to victory.
The host patch took squad gold, together with Thai squad members Thanaporn Chavatanont together with Preecha Khunian also claimed private silverish together with bronze.
Ho’s mount, the 14-year-old Super Combed, is a New Zealand bred thoroughbred past times Faltaat, from the New Regent mare Flick Alight. Super Combed – known every bit Harry – is an ex-racehorse who finished his racing career inwards Hong Kong. Ho worked at Hong Kong’s thoroughbred retraining facility, where she met Harry.
The Championships were held at the fabulous Thai Polo together with Equestrian Club, which has stabling for 120 horses together with embraces close 500 acres of countryside. Foreign Technical Delegate, Australia’s Geoff Sinclair, described the place every bit “world class” for Eventing. “The stabling, Equus caballus inspection area, dressage together with jumping arenas, a truthful 1* Cross Country course of pedagogy blueprint together with veterinarian facilities, including a novel hospital, would survive highly rated anywhere,” he said.
Equestrian events were start included inwards the programme of the Asian Games dorsum inwards 1998, together with the evolution of jumping inwards the portion has blossomed ever since. However it has been a fleck to a greater extent than of a struggle for the sport of eventing, amongst the full general competitive criterion across Asia all the same at a fairly basic flat inwards this discipline. These maiden FEI Eventing Championships were thence designed to assist heighten the criterion of competition, together with to growth the give away of competitive opportunities for Asian athletes together with their horses. Staged at CIC-CH 1* level, the Championships attracted nineteen riders from 5 National Federations – Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Nippon together with Thailand.
Annie Ho always looked the strongest contender together with it was clear that she had non flown Super Combed all the agency from England without a theater programme for success. Having established the Pb inwards the dressage stage amongst a grade of 46.1, she added exclusively 1.2 fourth dimension penalties on cross-country twenty-four lx minutes menstruum together with a unmarried fourth dimension error inwards the concluding jumping stage for a clear victory amongst a concluding tally of 48.2.
Thailand’s Thanaporn Chavatanont together with Painters Peer were unopen behind afterwards the start stage when the Dressage Ground Jury – New Zealand’s William Phiskie, Japan’s Sumiko Suzuki together with Australia’s Ronald Paterson – awarded them a grade of 48.8. Japan’s sole representative, Negishi Atsushi riding Rata, was lying 3rd on a score of 51.9 every bit cross-country day began, but the encounter the corporation timber was to assay real influential indeed.
Both the Indian together with Indonesian teams ran into problems over the rail designed past times New Zealand’s John Nicholson, leaving the host side, coached past times Thailand’s 2012 Olympic Eventing instance Nina Lamsam Ligon, amongst no opposition for the squad title. Only viii of the nineteen starters managed to consummate the course.
There were but 7 individuals left to battle it out on the concluding twenty-four lx minutes menstruum afterwards the withdrawal of Thailand’s Korntawat Samran (Maximus F) inwards the 2d Equus caballus inspection. Ho’s unmarried fourth dimension error over the coloured poles left her a real comfortable winner amongst to a greater extent than than a 23-point wages over silverish medallist Chavatanont who added 14.8 cross-country fourth dimension penalties together with 4 to a greater extent than for a fence downward inwards the Jumping stage for a concluding total of 71.6.
With xiv cross-country time penalties together with sixteen jumping faults along amongst 5 for time, Japan’s Atsushi dropped to fourth, allowing Thailand’s Weerapat Pitakanonda (Monarchs Royal Touch), who completed on 72.9, to pace onto the private podium for bronze. Thailand’s Supanut Wannakol (O-Re-O) finished 5th ahead of Supap Khaw-Ngam (Ardbohill Lad) inwards 6th together with the dwelling side also filled 7th house when Naphatra Lerosilpjaroen (Adventurer) completed on a score of 106.9.
In the squad event, Chavatanont was joined on the gold-medal winning side past times Weerapat Pitakanonda (Monarchs Royal Touch), Supap Khaw-Ngam (Ardbohill Lad) who finished on 108.7, together with Preecha Khunian (Miss Black Magic) who was 1 of the xi eliminations from the starting plain of 19.
Annie Ho is already re-setting her targets, amongst the 2013 National Games, the 2014 Asian Games together with fifty-fifty the 2016 Olympic Games directly inwards her sights. Born inwards Hong Kong, she moved to Great Britain at the historic menstruum of 5 together with has a grade inwards Equine Business Management along amongst a British Horse Society teacher qualification. She was stable director during the 2008 Olympic Test Event inwards Hong Kong, but lives inwards Surrey, England, together with qualified for the FEI Asian Eventing Championships 2013 spell competing on the British eventing circuit. She directly returns to her British base of operations every bit the first-ever FEI Asian Individual Eventing Champion.
Results:
FEI Asian Team Eventing Championship 2013: GOLD – Thailand 253.2: Painters Peer (Thanaporn Chavatanont) 71.6, Monarchs Royal Touch (Weerapat Pitakanonda) 72.9, Ardbohill Lad (Supap Khaw-Ngam) 108.7, Miss Black Magic (Preecha Khunian) 1050.
FEI Asian Individual Eventing Championship 2013: GOLD – Super Combed (Annie Ho) HKG 48.2; SILVER – Painters Peer (Thanaporn Chavatanont) 71.6; BRONZE – Monarchs Royal Touch (Weerapat Pitakanonda) 72.9.
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