Strong Competition For Easter Show-Jumping

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28256, 18 April 1957, Page 15

Strong Competition For Easter Show-Jumping

YiyiTH many of the finest show jumping horses and riders competing, the Easter meeting to be held by the Canterbury Area of the New Zealand Horse Society at the Addington Show Grounds on Saturday should be one of the best yet held. Several members of the South Island representative show-jumping team which has just concluded a strenuous tour of the North Island, as well as riders who have taken part in the course conducted by Mr Colnman Bolgar in Christchurch last week, will take part.

Although the North Island tour was a strenuous one, the results achieved by the South Island team were quite satisfying. At the first competition of the tour at Hastings, E. Uprichard (Land Rover) was placed first in the jumping, with the South Island team second to Northern Hawke’s Bay in the teams’ event. At Waipawa on March 19, H. C. Greenwood rode Tora brilliantly and win the open jump, rounds and win the open jump. Both Uprichard and Greenwood are entered in next Saturday’s events. Land Rover is an excellent jumping horse, and at the Gisborne Show on March 29, the horse jumped brilliantly to win the Gamblers’ Stakes competition. At Auckland on Saturday. Uprichard rode him over a 6ft jump before he was disqualified.

Smuggler is another horse which should do well on Saturday. D. B. C. Allin rode him to victory in the open jump at the Sheffield Show on Saturday. Other very well-known horses which should be to the fore are Miss E. Ashton’s Araan, and Miss F. F. Wilding’s Pepper Pot. A horse well worth watching will be the solid Bomber, B. G. Rutherford’s mount _ which has

; done well in events in the North ■ Island. i Three entries in the pony events t should dominate their sections. . They are Miss E. Morton’s Sansi, s I. Monk’s Safety Pin, and Miss P. j McGowan’s Savanna. These ponies > have all represented the South l Island, and Savanna was the winl ner of the Olympic event at the . Christchurch Show last year. > The largest event on Saturday’s

programme will be the “Take Your Own Line Event.” In this competition, the rider can take his horse over the jumps as laid out in any order. Thirty-two competitors will not make an easy task for the judges (Messrs R. R. Jordon, J. P. Brophy, and T. Teschemaker).

One of the most interesting aspects of the events will be the performances of several horses

and riders who took part in last week’s show-jumping course held by the New Zealand Horse Society’s trainer, Mr Coloman Bolgar. In previous year’s Mr Bolgar’s course has been held later in the year, and riders have had little opportunity for competition until after the winter. Although some of the opposition will be formidable, the younger riders .h.jld valuable „pe,l«,»