New Zealand showjumper Katie McVean has returned home with
her 2012 Olympic hopes all but gone after hopes of trialling
a Dutch horse came to nothing.
McVean last month sold her probable London Olympics ride,
Delphi, to Saudi Arabian interests for an undisclosed
multimillion-dollar sum.
However, a subsequent offer to ride Wavantos VD Renvillehoeve
for a Dutch owner saw her return to Europe to trial the
horse, with the aim of qualifying New Zealand for the
Olympics at Aachen in Germany early next month.
But on her arrival in Holland, the horse had not yet arrived
at the Dutch stable and 25-year-old McVean felt time was
simply running out.
"It was going to be tight going into Aachen as it was, but
with the horse not yet there it just seemed to be getting
tougher and tougher," McVean said. "This isn't how I wanted
to be preparing for such an important event."
She will now focus her efforts on a growing stable of
exciting young horses at her Mystery Creek base.
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