The Waikato Equestrian Centre Riding School prides itself on offering quality education programs to students at all levels in fun and safe environment.
31/03/2025
The Master Cometh.................. Blyth Tait is coming to WEC!
That's right, for two days in April, we are hosting Blyth.
As if he needs any introducing - In 1990 Blyth won the world individual title on Messiah in Stockholm, Sweden, and helped New Zealand to the world team title as well. There was also a second placing at the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials on the same horse, plus victory in the Scottish Open on Ricochet.
By 1992 Tait was ranked No 1 on the world standings, a position he maintained almost throughout the decade. He and Messiah took the individual bronze medal at the Barcelona Olympics, going clear in the show-jumping round to pip his team-mate Vicky Latta for third place. The bronze was a special feat because after the dressage section Tait had been placed only 69th.
Tait was also part of the silver medal-winning New Zealand team at Barcelona.
Tait’s greatest horse was probably Ready Teddy. The combination produced the Olympic individual gold medal at Atlanta in 1996 and the world individual title in Rome in 1998. Tait and Ready Teddy also helped New Zealand to the world team title in 1998. Further, riding Chesterfield, Tait helped New Zealand to a team bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.
Tait, a tenacious competitor but an extremely popular personality, won the Kentucky three-day event, on Welton Envoy, and Burghley twice, in 1998 and 2001, However, Badminton eluded him – three times he was runner-up.
He was a member of the New Zealand equestrian team that won the Halberg Award for Team of the Year in 1998. Other equestrian teams in which he was a member were Halberg team finalists in 1990, 1992 and 1996.
And he is here at WEC on the 12th and 13th of April.
Contact for the clinic is to be made through Denise Rushbrook - lutzen00&.com
We are looking forward to this!!!!!
