Robertson Chasing Honours

Showjumping Canterbury

Labour Weekend 1* Show Jumping Carnival

NEC McLeans Island

Sunday, October 27, & Monday, October 28

Robertson Chasing Honours

Fresh from five weeks competing in Australia with the New Zealand Young Rider team Ohoka teen Olivia Robertson will be chasing glory at Showjumping Canterbury’s Labour Weekend 1* Jumping Carnival.

Robertson, 18, and her horse Ngahiwi Cisco returned from Australia at the start of this month and have got straight back down to business.

Boosted by some big, technical tracks and tough competition across the Tasman, it didn’t take long for the pair to regain winning form, notching up an impressive victory in the Horse Grand Prix at Ellesmere A&P show last weekend with the only clear round, as well as finishing second in the Young Rider behind Rose Alfeld (Weedons).

But it will be much tougher this weekend. Robertson faces a stiff line-up in Monday’s One Star Horse Grand Prix with a small but quality field of 11 assembled, including Mosgiel’s Claudia Hay on Euro Sport Centavos and Ashburton’s Susie Hayward on Andretti, who is down to compete after making a mad dash north to compete in the opening round of the Bayer World Cup New Zealand Series the Hawke’s Bay A&P show in Hastings this Friday. Both Hayward and Hay have already notched up wins this season.

The Telford Young Rider Series will also be hotly contested, with Robertson among 10 combinations looking to end Nicole White’s (Invercargill) winning streak aboard Cricklewood Ace.

The Country TV Pony Grand Prix promises some real action with a strong field of 15 of the South Island’s leading pony riders looking for vital points, while large fields will also contest the Caledonian Amateur and KiwiSpan Junior Rider classes.

The event has attracted huge entries with rider competing from across the South Island. New accumulators in ring two have proved popular with some classes boasting in excess of 60 horses.

There will be three rings of jumping action on both Sunday and Monday catering for all levels, with the Horse and Pony Grand Prix on Sunday, as well as a dedicated show hunter ring. Jumping action starts at 8am both days.

Results will be posted on Monday.

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