AKBAR WINS HORSE SOCIETY TRIALS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29555, 3 July 1961, Page 18

AKBAR WINS HORSE SOCIETY TRIALS

(New Zealand Press Association)

WANGANUI. July 2. The Two Hawke's Bay entrants in an eight-horse field took the first two placlngs at the New Zealand Horse Society’s fifth annual national one-day trials held on the Fordell properties of Mr W. G. Lewis and Mrs D, Sutherland, Wanganui, on Saturday. The winner of the Hawke's Bay regional trial the previous week, Mrs J. R. McKenzie’s grey hunter, Akbar, ridden by the owner, won the open event, the Forest Gate Trophy, after a keen duel with Limonite, ridden by Miss S. Talbot (Onga Onga). The phases—dressage, crosscountry, and show-jumping —were held in fine weather, but with a cold wind prevailing during the day. ■Hie competitor gaining the fewest penalty points in toe three sections was the winner. Limonite won the dressage, but Akbar was ahead after the cross-country test (although only by a slight margin), and everything depended upon how Mrs McKenzie’s grey fared in the show-jumping. Only Id points behind the leader. Limonite completed the show- jumping course without

a fault, and the final result still hung in the balance. However, Akbar and Mrs McKenzie were equal to toe occasion, and cleared the show jumps in faultless style to win the Forest Gate Trophy. Dressage H. J. Talbot’s Limonite (Onga Onga). ridden by Miss S. Talbot, 75 penalty points, 1; Mrs J R. McKenzie's Akbar (Hawke's Bay), owner, 78 33 points. 2; Miss K. Barrett's Vanity Fair (Masterton), owner. 82.33 points, 3: Mrs H. D McDonald's Ocean Wave (Waikato), J Howard, 92.33 points. 4; J. H. T. Duncan's The Robe iTaihape). P. Duncan, 98 points. 5. Cross-Country The Robe (P. Duncan). 7min 7sec. 16.2 penalty points, 1; Akbar (Mrs McKenzie). 7mtn 28sec. 22.5 penalty points 2: Limonite (Miss Talboti. 7 mln Zlsec. 40.4 penalty points, 3; Ocean Wave (J. Howard). 1095 penalty points. 4. Aggregate Akbar (Mrs McKenzie). 7833. 22.5. no jumping faults, total of 100.83 points. 1. Limonite (Miss Talbot). 75. 40.4, no jumping faults. 1154 points. 2. Ocean Wave (J. Howard). 92.33. 109.5. 22.75 jumping faults. 224.58 points 3. The Bob* retired in the jum" - * phase.