It’s a busy weekend all over EN with The Fork of course being our main focus. Samantha is on scene with brilliant reports all weekend and you can follow her prolific tweeting @SamanthaLClark. ESJ is kind enough to be providing us reports from Kihikihi in New Zealand. We’re still working out a few kinks in the settings of the new EN platform so I am uploading ESJ’s post manually today. Now, try to say “Kihikihi” three times fast…
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Aussie Shane Rose and his Olympic hopeful ride Taurus lead the field at the end of dressage at Kihikihi in New Zealand. Shane and Taurus who were on my Team for London by the way, sit on 47.6, just ahead of teammate Christine Bates and Delago on 49.0
Christine is hoping to be selected for London on her Adelaide Hill and is impressing the selectors on her young ride Delago.
In third place is another Aussie, Natalie Blundell and her stunning Algebra who achieved 54.0. The drop score for Team Australia, is Katja Weimann who is lying tied for 6th place alongside the best of the Kiwi team members Joseph Waldron on Springvale All Black.
So at he end of dressage the Aussies are on 150.6 and the Kiwis lie a full two XC fence penalties behind on 190.6.
Having walked John Nicholson’s stunning but relentless course twice now, this competition is far from a forgone conclusion and I expect to see changes on the leader board by the end of tomorrow. That said I still expect to see Shane in the lead.
Full results are here
See you all tomorrow. Yours in Eventing,
ESJ
