Wagga City Council is meeting with Wagga's horse groups tomorrow night to discuss funding for equestrian facilities. Council is under pressure to decide whether to invest thousands of dollars in facilities at either Charles Sturt University or Equex Centre. Wagga's horse groups are finding it difficult to agree on how the money should be spent creating a major division on the issue. ...

Gerco Schroder triumphed with Eurocommerce London being the only double clear round to win the Global Champions Tour Grand Prix of Brazil to take home 320,000 euros and a Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso timepiece. One million euro prize money was duly divided to the top 18 placings. Most excting for Aussies is that Edwina Alexander placed second and remains on top of the Global Champions Tour ranking. With the best of seven events to count in the ranking tally, Edwina dropped her lowest score of 27 earned at the Valencia leg of the tour. Go Edwina!...

The EQUITANA Super Ticket = Entry into Everything for ALL FOUR DAYS! Hailed as the best value tickets in Australia - Four days of action and entertainment! The Super Ticket includes: General admission to Education Program, Competitions, Masterclasses, Exhibition, Two Specialist Clinics, all Evening Programs including Sunday afternoon Equestrian Grand Final - Exhibition, and reserved seating for: Thursday: EQUITANA Australian Open Reining Championships. Friday: Equestrian Grand Final - Jumping and Zilco Four-in-Hand Driving Challenge. Saturday: Equestrian Grand Final - Dressage and Freestyle. ...

Following confirmation of siblings to Black Caviar, Makybe Diva and So You Think, Inglis is able to confirm entry of the first foal of Gai Waterhouse’s gallant racemare Tuesday Joy for next year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The colt, by champion sire More Than Ready, will be among a high-quality array of yearlings from top young racemares and proven producers to sell with Inglis at Easter....

Kiwi eventers have finished in three of the top five spots at the prestigious Burghley International Horse Trials in the UK this morning (Mon NZ & Aus time). Andrew Nicholson was second aboard Nereo behind Brit William Fox-Pitt on his New Zealand thoroughbred Parkland Hawk, who collect a record six title after a rain-affected final round....

A dream clear round over the coloured poles with Parklane Hawk gave William Fox-Pitt his sixth Burghley victory – and put him in the history books as the first rider to attain this achievement. “I can’t believe it,” said William who first won here in 1994. “He was superb. I might have looked cool but deep down this mattered a lot – it is huge and a real honour”....

William Fox-Pitt (GBR) has the slimmest of leads to win a record sixth Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), second-last leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, after a thrilling day’s cross-country. The day was a spectacle of bold riding and flying horses, and Fox-Pitt gave an early masterclass on the New Zealand former racehorse Parkland Hawk, winner of the Blenheim CCI3* last year but short on mileage this year. ...

Britain proved today that they still have the edge and remain the team to beat when it comes to Para-Equestrian Dressage. Indeed, as Britain’s first all-female quintet scooped team gold and 5 of the 15 available medals in the individual test, with three of the grades won by a British rider, there was little doubt left that they are in a league of their own. ...

Aussie Boyd Exell is competing at the FEI Open European Driving Championships for Four-in-Hand being held in Breda, The Netherlands and has just posted on his Facebook page that after dressage, the standings are Boyd first on 34.05, Chardon second on 35.71, Dobrovitz thrid on 44.80 and Timmerman fourth on 45.70. The marathon is tomorrow and Boyd is 21st to go starting section A at 13.25. We wish Boyd all the best of luck for the marathon!...

Simone Deitermann (GER) and Free Easy NRW are well known for their ability in the Dressage arena, but the German rider still said it felt “amazing” to be in the lead on her first visit to the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), second-last leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™. “My horse was quite nervous,” she explained, “and he is not used to performing on a grass arena.” ...