Sportsman II - the horse in the shopping cart

      Rhys and Antoinette Powell

 

At Puhinui International 3 Day Event CCI1* Clarke Johnstone rode Sportsman II, a nine year old chestnut thoroughbred by His Royal Highness owned by Rhys Powell. Rhys hails from New Zealand but is now based in Perth, Western Australia and when we found out how he found Sportsman II we couldn’t resist bringing you the story of the eventing horse that was bought online and ‘put in the shopping cart’

 

Rhys Powell

 

Sportsman II added nothing to his dressage score during the weekend to finish in sixth place in the CCI1* and looked fabulous in both the cross country and show jumping phases. Not bad for a horse bought online!