Caroline Powell's Olympic eventing horse Lenamore will not have a chance to represent New Zealand at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky later this year.
At the request of the horse's owners, the MacKinnon family, Lenamore has been removed from the Equestrian Sports New Zealand High Performance horse trials squads for 2010 and 2012.
"Lenamore's owners have decided that in this stage of his career and at age 17, that the horse owes them nothing and they would like Lenamore to continue campaigning solely in the UK," ESNZ said this week.
"He has therefore been withdrawn from World Games contention."
Powell rode Lenamore for New Zealand at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, and they were the country's top placed combination, in 14th, at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Lenamore and Powell finished 4th and 5th respectively at Badminton and Burghley, and he is being aimed at his sixth Badminton in May.
The move likely leaves Powell without a WEG contender, but she has the advanced horses Apapa and Mac MacDonald, and the younger horses Boston Two Tip and Thornfield Jones.
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