<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><strong>Andrew Nicholson and Clarke Johnstone continue to fly the
New Zealand eventing flag high offshore.</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>Nicholson, New Zealand's most capped Olympian, is
comfortably in first and second placings heading into the final phase of the
CCI*** at the Blair Castle International Horse Trials in Scotland, while
Johnstone has moved up the ranks in the final round of the FEI Eventing World
Cup series at Le Grand Complet in France.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>Series leader Johnstone climbed from 11<sup>th</sup> to
fifth overnight after the cross country at Le Grand Complet. It's a toughly
fought battle at the top of the table, where Johnstone has four Australians
ahead of him </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>But Johnstone and Orient Express are still well in touch
with leader Clayton Fredericks (AUS) on his Be My Guest, just 5.6 points behind
them. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>Mark Todd and NZB Campino have slipped to 11<sup>th</sup>
in the same class, after picking up 10 faults in the cross country.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>Aboard Lucy Jackson's Willy Do in the CIC** Todd is in 10<sup>th</sup>
spot going into the cross country phase.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>In the CCI*** at Blair Castle in Scotland, Nicholson is
first and second on Shady Grey and Calico Joe respectively with two rails in
hand as they head in to the showjumping phase tonight (Sunday, NZ time). Of the
32 who started the class, 26 remain after the first two phases, and just three
went clear and inside time over the cross country – Nicholson accounting for
two of those. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><br>Caroline Powell has had a successful weekend finishing
third in the CIC*** aboard Onwards and Upwards and third in the CCI* on The
Earl of Belvedere.</span></p>
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