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.
What we do
- Provide talented New Zealand event riders with top quality New Zealand-bred horses to be successful on the world stage.
- Help develop future generations of event riders:
- Produce safe and sound horses for sale at sensible prices.
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.
Read more…
Published: 31 August, 2010
Jonathan Paget and Frances Stead’s Clifton Promise have been selected to join a five strong eventing squad to represent New Zealand at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky later this month. Read more... |
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Published: 09 August, 2010
The cost of buying a New Zealand or Australian horse for Americans looks certain to rise substantially after from 29 August with the suspension of direct flights from down-under to North America due to high operating costs. Read more... |
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Published: 17 July, 2010
Andrew Nicholson has won the CICO 3-star competition at CHIO Aachen 2010 with the 9-year-old chestnut gelding Nereo. This is the first time in the five-year history of the eventing competition that the individual victory didn’t go to a German rider. Read more... |
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Published: 16 July, 2010
Clifton Promise, ridden by Jonathan ‘Jock’ Paget, led the show jumping in the CICO 3-star competition at CHIO Aachen 2010 yesterday, completing the course nine seconds under time in the fastest time of the day at a cost of no rails. The result lifted the Muriwai-based combination from 29th place after the dressage to 19th, on a total of 51.2 penalties in a field of 39 starters. Read more... |
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Published: 14 July, 2010
Members of the ESNZ Eventing High Performance Squad have arrived in Germany today for CHIO Aachen, the annual German official horse show, to compete in the CICO 3-star Team Competition. Read more... |
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Published: 11 July, 2010
Clifton Eventers, the home of Clifton Promise and the leading eventing stable in New Zealand, has vacancies for two working pupils through to the end of 2010. Read more... |
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Published: 25 June, 2010
The selection of Andrew Nicholson and three of his horses – Nereo, Avebury and Mr Cruise Control – as the only members of the ‘A Squad’ in yesterday’s announcement by Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) clearly demonstrates the UK rider’s continuing domination of the sport in the lead-up to the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky later this year. |
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Published: 20 June, 2010
Clifton Lush, ridden by Joe Meyer, slipped to 13th place at this weekend's CCI**** event at Luhmühlen, near Hamburg in northern Germany, after collecting four rails and four time faults in the final show jumping phase, taking their score to 69.0 penalties. Read more... |
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Published: 19 June, 2010
Clifton Lush, ridden by Joe Meyer, has become the leading Kiwi combination at this weekend's WEG selection event after completing an "absolutely stunning" clear cross-country round 14 seconds under the optimum time, taking the pair to sixth place on the leaderboard. Read more... |
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Published: 18 June, 2010
Five Kiwi combinations, including Joe Meyer on Clifton Lush, are competing at the Luhmühlen four-star in Germany this weekend in the hope they score a place on the short-list for the WEG in September. Read more... |
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