Clifton Eventers – Proven Performers

The overall goal is to achieve broader safe and enjoyable participation in the wonderful sport of Eventing across all ages and all standards in association with our goal to return New Zealand eventing to its former glory with gold medal winning performances at 2012 London Olympics, and beyond.

This leads to four key objectives for Clifton Eventers:

1. Provide talented New Zealand event riders with top quality New Zealand-bred horses to be successful on the world stage.
2. Help develop future generations of event riders.
   • Riders who are serious contenders for the London 2012 Olympics and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
   • Today’s Junior event riders
3. Produce safe and sound horses for sale at sensible prices.
4. Horse agistment and training of horse and rider.

Read more about our objectives here.

The driving force behind Clifton Eventers is Frances Stead, assisted by Russell Hall and Jonathan Paget.

The majority of the horses are based near Muriwai, just under 40 km north-west of Auckland, on 20 ha (50 acres) of rolling sandstone country. If you want to know more about our set-up and training resources, please go to the facilities page. We also have some horses with other riders, including Donna Smith near Te Kauwhata, Waikato, New Zealand, and Joe Meyer in Surrey, England.

The training facility was officially opened on 16 October 2009 by the Hon John Key, the MP for Helensville and Prime Minister of New Zealand. You can see a good selection of photographs of the event (there are two pages of thumbnails– click on a photo to see an enlargement) and video can be viewed on YouTube.

With over 20 eventers always in work we are never very far from the news. You can check up on us by either going to the news page that has summaries and links to news other people have published about us or you can simply search Google for news about us. Also, check out Jock's blog – this is now up and running and should be updated on a weekly basis.

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Latest News   Next  PM endorses concept of sporting partnerships Published: 20 October, 2009 Prime Minister John Key has endorsed the concept of public private partnerships in the quest for gold at the Olympics. Speaking at the official opening last week (Oct. 16, 2009) of Clifton Eventers, New Zealand’s first purpose-built eventing training centre, the Prime Minister said the concept around PPPs and Centres of Excellence are “very important”. Read more... TV3 Sport covers Clifton Eventers Published: 17 October, 2009 TV3 Sport has put to air today a two-minute piece they filmed last Monday at Muriwai about our quest for "the glory dais" of the 80's and 90's. Read more... Clifton Promise and Jonathan Paget out of Trans-Tasman squad Published: 12 October, 2009 Unfortunately, after consultation with Jonathan Paget, Neil Houston, Eventing team vet and Erik Duvander, Eventing High Performance leader, it has been decided to withdraw Clifton Promise for consideration as a member of the Trans-Tasman squad due to go to the Australian International 3 Day 4-star event, held in Adelaide 13-15 November. Read more... Rio de Janeiro to host 2016 Olympics Published: 04 October, 2009 Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympics in 2016 following a vote by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more... Work starts on horse walker Published: 16 September, 2009 Work has started on the installation of a Magnum six-horse horse walker to support the fitness development programme of the horses at Muriwai. Read more...

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