Back to News Showjumping December 4, 2009 by Jenny Beker The 2009 / 2010 season has only just started so there is not very much to report at this stage. Results from Pukahu show that Katie McVean and her Warmblood team have started the season well with a 1st place in the Grand Prix on her mare Dunstan Daffodil (Salute the Stars / Flower Power), a 3rd on Dunstan Forest II (the Belgian Warmblood by Forever / Ilona / Lys De Darmen), and a 4th on Dunstan Delphi (a beautiful mare by Leo Caylon / Flower Power). In 6th place was Bridget Hansen on Monamie NZPH (Shogun II (who won the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1993 with Eric Navet, and the CSI in Geneva in 1992. His Dam also produced the Atlanta double gold medalist Jus de Pomme) / dam, Llara was an A grade mare, and Grand Prix winner ridden by Vaughan Jefferies). At the time of writing no further results are available from subsequent shows. Recently returned from the Royal Adelaide Show perhaps a few paragraphs will be of interest to readers. Gerrit was invited as course designer for the week-long show jumping component of the A&P show which is quite an event for the inhabitants of Adelaide. It is estimated that in excess of 600,000 people attend the show over the 9 days - interestingly, this equates to around half the population of Adelaide. Special trains run every 15 minutes from the central station to a purpose-built platform alongside the show grounds. A large component of the show is made up of side shows, exhibition areas and stock of different kinds. Much like a NZ A&P show but on a huge scale. There is a grand parade almost every day and all riders, all stock and all carriages are obliged to take part! The large oval arena is divided into three parts and the different disciplines of showjumping, showing and carriage driving rotate around the three arenas. The footing was excellent and the horses obviously had no objection to jumping on it. At most times, all three areas were occupied and operating at the same time. The Australian showjumping horses do not bat an eye as the carriages whiz past alongside. There are numerous showing classes and in the "Lady Rider" class there were well over 20 competitors. The entire oval is completely cleared at the end of each day for the nightly entertainment which usually involved noisy motorised vehicles! The most important class of the show was the World Cup round which was also a COC round (Certificate of Capability for WEG in Kentucky). The Australian riders will have the opportunity of contesting 11 World Cup rounds during the season, with the best 6 scores to count. The international judge was Elizabeth Heber from Norway. Many of the horses in the class had been at HOY in March. The eventual winner was Becky Allen riding Koyuna Ted with Wendy Schaeffer on Koyuna Sun Set in 2nd place. Koyuna Stud foundation sire was none other than Brilliant Invader who stood there from late 1996 as a sport horse sire. In New Zealand, he sired the World Cup show jumpers Pirate, Mitavite Imperial, Gingernut, Scarlett and Dunstan Flower Power. Brilliant Invader also sired exceptionally talented eventers. Ready Teddy was obviously the most famous of his NZ offspring (individual Gold with Blyth Tait at Atlanta) and Mister Maori was another successful three star horse for Andrew Nicholson. [Sourced from Internet]. In 3rd place was Michelle Lang-McMahon (wife of Peter McMahon who won the Olympic Cup at HOY) riding a Warmblood called Animate. I have unfortunately not been able to find out anything further about his breeding. Evidently she has only been riding the horse for around 4 months but they have formed a good partnership. Kristy Bruhn on Harbarty was 4th and Julia Hargreaves on the imported Hayman Pierville was 5th. Although with a different name, this horse looks very much like Copabella Haymen (Arpege Pierreville SF) that Julia rode at HOY (imported from Holland). In 6th place was Chris Chugg on the beautiful Belgian stallion Vivant (Guego De Prelet /Scalini vd Heffinck / Londino), also seen at HOY.