<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><div style="padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 7px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 7px; background-color: #ffffff; font: normal normal normal 13px/1.22 arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; "><p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><strong>Dropping the last
rail in a $CAN90,000 grand prix proved expensive for top New Zealand showjumper
Katie McVean in Canada this morning (Monday).</strong></font>
</p><br>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">McVean and
nine-year-old Dunstan Delphi had to settle for third place behind Canadians
Lauren Hunkin on Larry 0146 and Jill Henselwood on Bottom Line in the Summer
Festival CSI2* world cup grand prix at the Caledon Equestrian Park in Palgrave,
Ontario.</font>
</p><br>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">The relegation to
third was made all the tougher because the Kiwi combination clocked the fastest
time of the jump-off – three of whom are on Canada's World Equestrian Games
shortlist.</font>
</p><br>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">McVean pocketed
$CAN13,500 for her efforts at the four day show aboard the current New Zealand
Showjumper of the Year who has been the subject of plenty of attention from
would-be-offshore buyers.</font>
</p><br>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Earlier in the show
she and Whitaker MVNZ (owned by Wendy and Richard Keddell – Mount View Sport
Horses) won the 1.35m and were a little unlucky in the 1.45m modified grand prix
which saw them take the first fence but fly the rest of the course.</font>
</p><br>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">McVean and her team
now head to a show in Ottawa where she and Delphi will start in a $CAN50,000
grand prix. Also on the cards is a $S250,000 grand prix at the Hampton Classic
in New York in early September.</font></p></span></font></p></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br>Diana Dobson<br>Media Liaison, <br>Showjumping NZ<br><br></span></p>
