Equestrian

One Day Event - Waingaro, March 2010

Author: David Rogers

With high expectations St Paul’s Collegiate School entered their first equestrian team into the Waingaro One Day event on Sunday, 7 March 2010.

The team consisted of David Rogers, Rian and Jackson Bovill, Sam Robinson and Courtney Booth. The day started of with high hopes and great confidence as the team approached the first event of the day, and probably the most dreaded, the Dressage. St Paul's competed exceptionally well to finish with Courtney taking third place, and David being placed first.

The second event of the day was the Show Jumping. Once again the team went very well, with everyone coming through with no rails knocked down and all under the given time limit. This brilliant effort kept St Paul’s at the top of the leader board. With a few points in hand, ahead of St Peter’s, the team was looking forward to the Cross Country section with confidence.

After a long wait the team finally tackled the Cross Country, achieving exceptionally fast times while at the same time remaining faultless, giving the team something to celebrate.

At the end of the day the final result was a well earned first place overall and a very successful day for the team’s first outing. All the riders obtained individual overall placings: David Rogers won the Over 16 Training Division; Rian Bovill won the Under 16 Training Division; Jackson Bovill placed second in the Pre-Training; and Sam Robinson placed second in the Under 16 Training Division.

Congratulations riders for a very successful day.