"SERIOUS MOMENTS"
"RIDERS BREIFING"
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"SMILING MOMENTS"
"RIDERS BREIFING"
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"RIDERS BREIFING"
Ground Dury and Officials:
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"GORGEOUS PROFILE"
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"SUPPLENESS"
NZL-Ashleigh Mckinstry (PIONEER MAKOKOMIKO)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"SHOW-OFF" (you would too if you were this STUNNING!!!)
NZL-Christen Hayde (KINNORDY GALLILEE)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"STAR-QUALITY"
NZL-Clarke Johnstone (VINCENT)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"GROUPIES"
NZL-KirstIn Kelly (KAKARIKI)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"LOVELY DUO"
NZL-Dannie Lodder (MOOCHI) with her groom on (WAITANGI PASSWORD)
NZL-2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"CHEEKINESS PERSONIFIED"
NZL-Bryce Newman (BATES TRADEMARK)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"CIRCLING"
NZL-Donna Smith and NZL-Anabel Wigley with Penny Castle:
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"LAST YEARS CCI** CHAMPION"
NZL-Donna Smith (BALMORAL SENSATION) 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"DOUBLE OR NOTHING"
NZL-Sophie Wilkinson (LITTLE MISS PETE) and NZL-2012 NZL-Sofie Boswell (CLIFTON GROVACHI)
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event: some light schooling and relaxing going on...
"HAVING A STRETCH"
Lauren Cooney and Angela Lloyd take their gorgeous horses for a stretch of the legs..:
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"GORGEOUS MODELS"
Look who we happen upon as we skip around the course:
Clarke Johnstone and Sarah Young:
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
LETS ROCK - START:
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 1: A WELCOME-IN SLIDER -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 2: THE SILVER FERN -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 3: ANOTHER SMOOTH ONE WITH THE ADDED PARALLEL BAR -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 4-A-B: THE FIRST COMBO - A CHUBBY TO A SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 5: IT LOOKS HARMLESS ENOUGH FROM THE FRONT.... -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 5: AND THEN WE SEE THE SECRET BEHIND IT! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 6-A-B: FOOTBRIDGE TO SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 6-A-B: FOOTBRIDGE TO SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 6-A-B: FOOTBRIDGE TO SKINNY (lets hope the wheels don't fall off!) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 7: A HORSE IS A HORSE OF COURSE OF COURSE
(even a wooden horse that is jumped by real horses!) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 8: THE MAORI CARVING SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 9-A-B: THE INTIMIDATING "WATER-TANK" DOUBLE CORNERS -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"CLOSE-UP"
FENCE 9-A: THE INTIMIDATING "WATER-TANK" DOUBLE CORNERS -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"CLOSE-UP"
FENCE 9-B: THE INTIMIDATING "WATER-TANK" DOUBLE CORNERS -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
EN ROUTE TO FENCE 12: LOVING THE NZL BUSH -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 12-A-B: THE FALLEN PINES -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 12-B: THE FALLEN PINES -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 13: THE OPTICAL ILLUSION - fab to look at front-on...
(did they really have to place it as FENCE 13 - who's supersticious??) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 13: THE OPTICAL ILLUSION - THEN - WOAH, don't look down...
(did they really have to place it as FENCE 13 - who's supersticious??) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 14-A-B-C: SKINNY-1-STRIDE-DITCH-1-STRIDE-SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 15:n "NAUGHTY OR NICE?"
ITS THE CHRISTMAS FENCE
(the BIG question is - will Santa make an appearance through this window???) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 16: MIND THE PONGAS! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 16: MIND THE PONGAS! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
EN-ROUTE TO FENCE 17: HMM, THIS COULD BE DISTRACTING -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 17: BRILLIANT-LAUNCH-CART -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 18-A: THE CORNERSTONE NUTRITION CORNER-BEFORE-THE-WATER -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 18-B-C-D: THE HONDA "POWER OF DREAMS" SPLASH! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 18-B-C-D: THE HONDA "POWER OF DREAMS" SPLASH! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
"MEN WITH FLOWERS"
FENCE DESIGNER: CCI*** XC:
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 19-A-B: MAX-WIDTH TO SUPER-SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 19-A-B: MAX-WIDTH TO SUPER-SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 19-A-B: MAX-WIDTH TO SUPER-SKINNY -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 20-A: WILD BUSH N'STUMP -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 20-A-B-C: Looking at the line on this one... - WILD BUSH N'STUMP -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 20-C: TO COMBO-CORNER! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 21: UP N'OVER -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 22A: STAIRWAY... -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 22B: ... TO UPRIGHT... -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 22C: ... TO ANOTHER STAIRWAY! -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 23: I CAN FEEL ANOTHER LAUNCH COMING ON... -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 24-A: MAX-WIDTH-MAX-HEIGHT
(As my model: Anabel Wigley demonstrates!) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 24-B: ROLLING IN THE HAY???
(hmm, could be kind of hard with that cling-wrap on it!) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 25: SECOND-TO-LAST - DON'T STOP...
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
FENCE 26: THAT'S IT AND THAT'S ALL
(for the moment anyway...) -
CCI*** XC: 2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
2012 NZL-Puhinui International 3 Day Event
Thursday 6 December
Well, Mother Nature sure did throw all her toys out of her cot today - these "toys" included:
*A tornedo in West Auckland (very near the home of the Puhinui 3 Day Event)
*TORRENTIAL rain
*FLASH-Flooding
*EXTREMELY loud thunder
*SUPERCHARGED flashes of lightening!
The grounds and every-being on them are okay, however, the Ground Dury made the decision to postpone the First Horse Inspection until tomorrow morning bright and early (and by "bright" - I do hope it is!!!) at 7.30am prior to the Dressage.
BONUS: I did capture some gorgeous shots with crazy clouds and light with the riders schooling their stunning horses, and had a fun scamper around the CCI*** course to pop on here so you can all check it out - NZL-STYLE.
There are Pongas, Cabbage Trees and Silver Ferns, tough-men with flowers in their hands, cheeky expressions during the riders meeting and some "bumpers" from various STARS I met on-course.....
VIEW-ON.... and here's to the action beginning in earnest tomorrow...
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LIBBY LAW PHOTOGRAPHY - NZL
