The winner of this year’s Retrained Racehorse Event Championship that was held at the St. Jame’s Place, Barbury Castle Horse Trials was Joe Meyer, the New Zealand Olympic and Clifton Lush.

With this win, the New Zealand bred Clifton Lush won his owner a bonus prize of 1,500 pounds. Altogether, there were 24 entries in the Open Intermediate level, where all participating horses had to have a Weatherby’s passport. However there was no necessary of any compulsory racing experience for the horse.

This is actually the second racing career for Clifton Lush as though he had arrived in UK three years ago; he had slipped in the yard last May and broke nine vertebrae. He was thus box rested for three months where Joe said that though they did not write him off, they just decided to give him some time to heal.

He appreciates all the efforts put by the girls who had worked day and night to look after him. He says that this is a not only a nice horse, but a horse with a fantastic brain that has much more to offer in himself.