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The superstars have been found across the age groups after another very successful National Young Horse Jumping Championships in Hastings this weekend.   The moment Bailey Marshall sat on Haupouri Evandro NZPH she knew she was onto something special. Today, at the 2020 Championships he delivered, taking out the Matthews Hanoverians Seven-Year-Old Championship Final ahead of a very competitive class. The registered nurse from New Plymouth was ecstatic with Lou – as he is known at home. She only got him in August after a trip to Haupouri Sport Horses to....

New Zealand’s future superstars are heading to Hawke’s Bay this week for the 2020 National Young Horse Jumping Championships with a record 510 horses taking part in the 25th anniversary event. It’s a very special event that was started by long time Hawke’s Bay breeder Graeme Hart but only in the last eight years has it been hosted in the Bay. Champions are decided over the three days in four, five, six and seven-year-old divisions, alongside national series classes and the FEI CSI1* class which has attracted 53....

Francis Flies to Victory in World Cup Qualifier

  Taupo teen Annabel Francis has ticked off one of her big goals for the season with a win in a very competitive POLi Payments FEI World Cup qualifier at the Feilding Industrial, Agricultural & Pastoral Show at Manfeild this evening. The 18-year-old was one of 10 very classy combinations to line up in the qualifier of the high-ranking series which was held in the indoor arena. In the opening round clears came from Annabel aboard La Quinara, the in-form Tegan Fitzsimon (West Melton) on....

  Fitzsimon World Cup Hat Trick at Hawera

It’s three from three for West Melton showjumper Tegan Fitzsimon who with Windermere Cappuccino....

New Zealand’s most prestigious jumping series gets underway on Friday at the Hawke’s Bay A&P Show in Hastings. Fittingly, the POLi Payments FEI World Cup New Zealand Series opener has a star-stacked field featuring Olympians, World Champs representatives, World Cup finalists and previous New Zealand series winners. The trio of women who were the top of the leaderboard last season are all lining back up – back-to-back series winner Tegan Fitzsimon is in on her very special 10-year-old bay gelding Windermere Cappuccino and they’ve already won two grand prix in the build-up to the World Cup opener. Two-time final winner and current....

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COVER PHOTO HEELAN TOMPKINS AND CRUSADER ON THEIR WAY TO COMPLETING A MAGNIFICENT CLEAR CROSS COUNTRY RUN AT BADMINTON 2002

PHOTO CREDIT & COPYRIGHT Michelle Thomson, daughter of the late Barbara Thomson.

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In January 2019, I had my worst fall off my horse at a show.  I entered Louie in the pleasure ring, and he took off jumping into a canter, leaping upwards and finishing with a huge buck on landing.  We parted ways quite spectacularly.  After a year of more downs than ups with Louie, this was not a knock to my confidence I needed.  But that fall has probably saved my life.

A week or so later I went to the doctor to get a sign off for a slight concussion. I had checked for other injuries before I went and found a large lump on my left breast.  I presumed it was from the fall.  My doctor wanted scans done as she thought it was a large cyst that needed....