Dressage in Auckland
More than 100 competitors from New Zealand, and two from Australia, are expected to compete at Avondale Racecourse during Easter week-end when, for the first time, the Wills New Zealand dressage tournament takes place in Auckland.
The high entry indicates the ever-increasing interest in this discipline of equestrian sport which demands suppleness, lightness and obedience in the horse and demonstrates the level of training. Perhaps not as dramatic as show jumping or horse trials, dressage nevertheless is a spectacle of poetry in motion and is really an extension of the training on the flat required for success in any aspect of riding competition. The tournament, on Saturday. Sunday and Monday, April 14 to 16, embraces all levels of dressage competition from preliminary through novice and elementary to the more advanced medium standard and, the peak of achievement, the Prix St George.
The major events are, on the Sunday, the pairs freestyle and the Wills Prix St George, and on the Monday the Wills North Island championship.
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Press, 7 April 1979, Page 12
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169Dressage in Auckland Press, 7 April 1979, Page 12
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