Clifton Eventers on 
Clifton Eventers on 
Clifton Eventers on Clifton Signature
Holds record for lowest Horse Trials score in New Zealand, winning on 12.5 penalties. One of his many wins!
6yo 16.3hh Chestnut Gelding TB x Hanoverian
This horse's track record is almost too good to be true:
- November 2009 – Won Young Event Horse Championship, Puhinui.
- March 2010 – Won Training Horse Trial with 12.5 penalty score.
- May 2010 (next start) – Won Training.
- May 2010 (nest start) – Won Training.
Rider then went overseas to prepare for and compete at WEG. Just after he returned he moved Clifton Signature up to Pre-Novice.
- November 2010 (next start) – equal top score at first Pre-Novice. Placed second.
- November 2010 (next start) – Won Pre-Novice.
- November 2010 – Won Young Event Horse Pre-Novice Championship class by more than 10 marks.
- December 2010 – Second at Pre-Novice 3DE finishing on dressage score.
In this time he:
- never had a cross country jump fault (once had 0.8 time faults).
- never had a show jumping fault.
Looking in more detail at these results:
Won Young Event Horse class at first attempt:
- 90% dressage (1st)
- 88.9% jumping (1st)
Won first Training Horse Trial where asked to be competitive with a new New Zealand record low score of 12.5 penalties (March 2010):
- Won dressage with 87.5%
- All marks '9' except for three '8's.
- Paces '9'.
- Impulsion '9'.
- Submission '9'.
- One of only six horses to show jump clear.
- One of only nine horses to jump clear cross country.
- One of only two horses under time cross country.
- Won on 12.5 penalties, almost half score of second-placed horse on 22.2.
- Next event won dressage with 74% (out of 38 starters). Finished on this 26.0 penalties.
- Next event, despite rider's absence competing overseas and returning only days before competition, won with an 80.0% dressage, double clear jumping with 0.8 time cross country, finishing on 20.8 penalties.
- First Pre-Novice – placed equal second after dressage. Moved to equal first after show jumping clear. Finished on dressage score but placed second as other horse closer to optimum time.
- Second Pre-Novice – placed third after dressage. Moved to first after show jumping clear. Won finishing on dressage score.
Pre-Novice Young Event Horse Championship:
- Won dressage with 77.8%, 22.2 penalties (everyone else's penalties in the 30s or 40s).
- Finished on dressage score, more than 10 marks clear.
Pre-Novice 3DE:
- Second after dressage on 31.7 penalties (disappointed with mark as thought test was one of his best).
- Finished on dressage score and placed second.
Three truly stunning paces. Floating elevation. Natural rhythm and balance.
Athletic, scopey jump with great technique.
Very trainable brain. Willing and eager to learn. Never hots up.
Beautiful looking horse with enormous presence. Always turns heads in any company.
Bold cross country with good natural gallop.
Horses of this calibre are very rarely found. He has 150% of everything it takes to make a top world class Eventer.
We are proud to have him as the ‘Signature' statement for Clifton Eventers – you can't get much better than this!
Absolutely must go to a very serious rider who will do him full justice.
Snaffle mouth, no martingale, all three phases.
By Espri (German Hanoverian – imported semen) out of TB mare, Madame la Rouge.
Born 31st October 2004.
Fully vetted, including x-rays and scope, September 2009.
