New Zealander Jock Paget is top of a closely bunched group of riders after the Dressage phase at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), the climax of the FEI Classics™ 2013/2014. Paget and Clifton Promise earned the excellent score of 38.8 for a fluent, well-executed performance but only two penalties covers the top six […]
Germany’s cool-headed anchorwoman Sandra Auffarth and her long-time partner Opgun Louvo produced the Dressage test everyone was anticipating to bring the first phase of the Eventing competition at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 in Normandy to a magical close. By the time Auffarth entered the arena the atmosphere was electric. She scored a […]
Eventers Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget and Kevin McNab have been cleared of doping charges by the FEI Tribunal. Both athletes’ horses – Clifton Promise and Clifton Pinot – tested positive for the banned substance reserpine following the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, in September 2013. During the hearing, it was explained that both men, along with […]
The FEI Tribunal has today lifted the provisional suspensions of Jonathan Paget (NZL) and Kevin McNab (AUS) with immediate effect. The two athletes had been provisionally suspended following positive tests on their horses, Clifton Promise and Clifton Pinot, for the banned substance Reserpine at Burghley (GBR) in September 2013. The decision follows a specific request […]
The FEI Tribunal has issued a partial decision in the Clifton Promise (Jonathan Paget) case. Clifton Promise tested positive to the banned substance reserpine at the Burghley CCI4* in September 2013. Paget, the Person Responsible (PR), accepted that the banned substance had been found in the horse and requested that the FEI Tribunal, prior to […]
Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget kept an admirably cool head in the pressurised last few minutes of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, and became the fifth New Zealander to lift the top prize here at this much-respected British CCI4*. Kiwi riders have won 12 of the last 26 Burghleys, […]
Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget and his fellow New Zealand riders showed the way with their brilliant Cross Country riding at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, and they now hold seven of the top 10 places. Paget is in first and second on Clifton Promise and Clifton Lush; last […]
Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget (NZL) and Clifton Promise could be on the brink of making Eventing history after taking over the lead after Dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, final leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™. The 29-year-old New Zealander has pledged to take all the direct routes on Mark Phillips’s much-respected Cross Country […]
In a nail-biting show jumping finale, New Zealander Jonathan (“Jock”) Paget turned in the performance of his career so far to lift the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials trophy. Lying second overnight, the 29-year-old Badminton first-timer rode an immaculate clear aboard Francis Stead’s Clifton Promise to pile the pressure on the overnight leader Michael Jung […]
