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Price leads NZ to Nations Cup win

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Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Mon, 9 Oct 2017, 6:01PM
Price took the individual crown, while the Kiwis won the team title (Photosport).
Price took the individual crown, while the Kiwis won the team title (Photosport).

Price leads NZ to Nations Cup win

Author
Newstalk ZB staff,
Publish Date
Mon, 9 Oct 2017, 6:01PM

Tim Price and Cekatinka have led the New Zealand three-day eventing team to victory at the final Nations Cup event of 2017 in the Netherlands.

Price took the individual crown, finishing on 43.7 points while the Kiwis won the team title, comfortably ahead of Germany.

Price was sitting in fifth place at the end of the dressage, and took the lead after the cross-country where he added just four time faults to his 43.7 penalty point tally.

He was clean and clear in the showjumping to finish 1.8 penalty points ahead of second-placed Tim Lips of the Netherlands aboard Bayro.

Price had plenty of praise for Cekatinka, who is usually ridden by his wife Jonelle.

"She is a lovely mare - very nuggety, athletic and simple in the way she jumps and goes," he said.

It's the first time Price has had a win at Boekelo.

"We (the team) always thought we had a good chance so just got on with it and put a good team performance down."

Sir Mark Todd finished seventh aboard the very promising McClaren, a horse who has been likened to the legendary Charisma.

"I was particularly thrilled with his performance," Todd said.

"At the beginning of this year he was only doing novice, so to finish seventh in his first three-star competition is truly phenomenal. I think he is a brilliant horse for the future."

Todd and McClaren added four points in both cross-country and showjumping to finish on 50.7 in seventh, while Daniel Jocelyn and Grovine de Reve were just out of the prize money in 26th place with 66.5 penalty points.

The New Zealand team finished on 160.9, with Germany second on 174.3 and Australia third on 203.7

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