Taupo

Clarke Johnstone and Balmoral Sensation continued their sensational new partnership with a win in the NRM CCI***, leading from start to finish.

Cross country day at NRM National Three Day Event Championships was full of thrills, spills and spectacular jumping over world class courses. Overnight leaders in all the championship classes have retained their top positions.

A series of small earthquakes in the early morning centred just miles from the venue just added to the pre-dressage nerves for riders and horses contesting the national titles at the NRM National 3 Day Event in Taupo, New Zealand

The first horse inspection is done at Taupo where, as well as top competitors, there are also international eventing delegates, a chainsaw master (no, not massacre) and, of course, John Nicholson as course designer for the NRM National 3 Day Event in New Zealand

Veteran New Zealand eventer Bryce Newman won the top class at the Fiber Fresh National Equestrian Centre, Taupo over the weekend riding Bates Trademark