Woman jumper beats men
(V Z Press Association f AUCKLAND. In spite of some side-line mutterings soon after the victory ceremony, yet another blonde bombshell yesterday advanced to the forefront of New Zealand sport by carrying off, against strong competition from men, the Olympic Cup for the national show lumping championship.
Sue Cawston, who on her 11y ear-old Australian horse. Matlock, yesterday won the premier! event of the Wills Horse of the' Year show at Clevedon, is a 23-year-old Napier girl, the daughter of a blacksmith, who began riding horses, so she has been told, at the age of two. Since she left secondary school at the age of 17. she has been doing little else but show jumping and for the last year, in pursuit of her craft, has lived at Forbes in New South Wales and established herself as one of the foremost show’ riders in this part of the world. Miss Cawston w as scratching to win against tough competition from T. Mclntosh, on D’Artagnan. and G. Hart, on Everest.
She had four faults in the first round and three in the second. Mclntosh had eight faults! in the first round and a clear go in the second run when the number of jumps was reduced from 13 to 6 and puissance or height, became the name of the game.
Hart, with four faults in each round, tied with Mclntosh just a point behind Miss Cawston: and if there had been a jury of
appeal, perhaps there imght haw been interesting deielopmenu ' A middle-aged gentleman uho seemed to be genuinelj aggrieved complained—to Migr Cawston —that she had walkqp Matlock through the water-jump alter her second run. The response to this from -la ‘erested parties was that Miv Cawston had completed h*i course. the water-jump was therefore of no significance and. anyway, she had won, hadn’t she? In affirmation of the important place women have in the sport the show offered in Miss Suaar Talbot, of Onga Onga. perhaps the most distinguished exponent of dressage, that event in which affinity between horse and ride.' must amount to communion, that the country has produced
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34126, 12 April 1976, Page 18
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