Youth riders, youth programme and youth world cup - American Quarter Horse Association of New Zealand

New Zealand team results
	Show One	Show Two
Cutting	1st Joel Gregory	3rd Joel Gregory
Youth World Champion Cutting - Joel Gregory (picture at right)
Reining	4th Leonie Huber	3rd Joel Gregory
Trail	8th Jody Blomfield	3rd Leonie Huber
Western Pleasure	9th Joel Gregory	8th Joel Gregory
Western Horsemanship		5th Olivia Waldock
Hunt Seat Equitation		2nd Olivia Waldock
Western Riding		7th Leonie Huber 9th Jody Blomfield
Hunter Under Saddle	6th Olivia Waldock

News at the time from Anne Blomfield (thanks Anne)
3 July: an update on the fly - "Reining yesterday (2 July) Joel got 0 score 1st show, but Leonie got 4th. 2nd show Joel got 3rd, Leonie didn't place. Both times the kids placed they were put down due to a tie breaker. Italy won both shows.

Today (3 July) showmanship won by USA. None of our kids in the line up. Jody
narrowly missed (according to judge) - horse moved a pivot foot. Apart from that a good run. Jody, Amanda and Olivia in it. Trail was won by the Dutch. Jody came 8th on a really unco-operative horse. (Picture at right.) Pleasure Joel came 9th and Canada won."

1 July: "Cutting today. Very good news for NZ. Joel has won gold in the first show, and 3rd in the 2nd. He rode a horse called 49er Command - a very experienced horse that rode just like his horse in NZ.

Jody did a good job but lost a cow and that put her out of the place getters. She had a very green horse (futurity horse just a few months ago), but she is pleased and tried her heart out. They ran it a bit different than they used to. Had 12 horses - one for each country. Each country had 2 kids. 2 draws - one for the morning, and one for the afternoon. Joel drew his horse for the morning - which ment that he did the morning clinic - then rode his cut under the 2 judges. Jody drew her horse for the afternoon - she rode in the afternoon clinic and show.

The scores for each judge were kept for both shows and they were placed for the whole day 2 judge system. This meant that they could use only the 12 horses that they had for the 24 kids that needed them. In some ways the afternoon were disadvantaged - horses being tired, but other horses needed that first run to 'work in'. "

Photo above right: the team of Jody Blomfield, Amanda Broughton, Joel Gregory, Leonie Huber and Olivia Waldock with assistant Steffi Young.