Eventing

Hayley Frielick bought this 12-year-old Thoroughbred gelding a few years ago, after moving to Australia from South Africa. Ollie is a 1-Star horse, and Hayley is having regular successes with him in both Open as well as Young Rider classes at this level....

Bijou arrived in Australia in May 2009 after Amanda Young purchased the gelding in New Zealand. He is an accomplished 3* eventer with a 5th place in the World Cup Qualifier at Kihikihi in 2008. Aka Willy, he stands at a mighty 15.2hh.Willy settled in well at Copabella and commenced his...

Owned by Alan Skinner, this talented Thoroughbred gelding is powering up through the ranks. At Canberra in 2009, he was looking very flash at Pre-Novice, and less than a year later at Scone in 2010 he won the very competitive 2-Star....

Tina Stafford travelled to Queensland with Chris in March, looking for her next superstar after the overseas sales of both Unrepentant and Walk the Line in previous months. Shortly afterwards a rising-5-year-old stallion arrived at Redleaf. Within the week he had been gelded and was out at...

Owned by Jade Findlay, who made the mistake of getting pregnant and handing the ride over to Chris a while back, Leilani is a lovely warmblood mare who has proven herself an outstanding international-level performer with wins and places at all 3* events she has attended....

What an illustrious background. This gelding, foaled in 1996, was owned and raced by Dr Kidman, yes, Nicloe's dad, as Barrington, and he is still known as Barry to this day. He was trained by Anthony Cummings and had two city starts for a 5th and a 9th, amassing a grand total of $700 in prize...

Malman joined Chris's team in 2010, after being purchased in New Zealand by a syndicate comprising Marianne Lichtwark, Christine Weal, Andrew McPherson and Chris. He is a 9-year-old Warmblood-Thoroughbred cross by Lantham, and is relatively new to the eventing world. But he has movement to burn, an...

When Julia decided she wanted to accompany Chris on the occasional event run as a competitor, not just a spectator, it was agreed that she would need an experienced horse to show her the ropes. (It had been about eight years since she'd attempted cross-country.) Bert was soon purchased from good...