SHOW JUMPING

Press, Volume C, Issue 29473, 27 March 1961, Page 9

SHOW JUMPING

NX Team Competes At Sydney

(From Our Own RopnrMr) SYDNXY. March 25. The New Zealand show jumping team now m Sydney hat competed at the Castle Hill, Camden and Warwick Farm shows, before the start of the Sydney Show on Friday. Peter Temperton on Pot Luck was the only New Zealand entry at Castle Hill and won the major Table A event.

On the first day at Camden the Australian horse Ocean Foam, which toured New Zealand with the Australian team, was ridden by Miss Pat Smythe to win the main event. The New Zealand horse Revenue (Miss J. Dalby) was second, and Treason (Cliff Mould) was third.

On the second day Landrover (E. Uprichard) won for New Zealand, Ocean Foam being second and Revenue fourth. In the touch-end-out event on the same day Treason was first end Oceen Foam second.

At Warwick Farm, Treason won an event won for New Zealand in 1955 by Rum. and Revenue was second. View Hallo (Miss J. Simmons), which is with the team to contest the three-day event, did a fair dressage test to be in the top half of the field after this phase, but she lost her way in the cross-country. On the first day of the Sydney Show. Saba Sam (G. Hansen, of Gisborne) won the light-weight hunter event while Pot Luck wen the major Table A with the Aus-

tralian team horses Pleasure and Royal second and third. Landrover was fourth. On Saturday, Saba Sam, Pot Luck and Landrover were New Zealand’s only starters, the event being the 13-stone jump under special conditions. Saba Sam was second after having eight falls in the feurth jump-off to an Australian horse’s four

faults. Pot Luck had eight falls in the first jump-off and Landrover four faults in the first round.

The show continues until April 5, and it is hoped that Gilbert (Miss Susan Talbot), which has been lame, may be fit to start later. With five New Zealand horses showing good form ,a good team of four should be fielding in the teams’ event