South Island Dressage Championships, NZ, January

Rosari Guest Star Medium Champion with Anya Durling. Kinnordy Gallium with Jenny Scotter - 2nd & 3rd Medium and 2nd Medium Freestyle. Geisha MH, full sister to Giusto MH, achieves two 3rd places in Elementary with Julie Fraser while Kinnordy Rialto (River Dance out of Kinnordy Ghia/Graf Landau) comes 1st & 3rd in Novice with Kristy Schist.

Wairarapa Dressage, NZ, January

Giusto MH with Susan Tomlin - 2x1st Advanced and 1st Medium Freestyle.

Waitemata Dressage, NZ, January

De Vito (Danzante out of Kinnordy Dancing/Daktylus), half brother to Gymstar One, with James Jackson in Preliminary - 2x1st. James Jackson also starts with Kinnordy Gasparo (Gymnastik Star out of Kinnordy Well & True/Winterkoenig), half-brother to Walk the Line and Grunelius Legacy, with a 1st in Novice.

North Island Dressage Championships, NZ, January

Guisto MH - Advanced Reserve Champion with Susan Tomlin. Kinnordy Gera (Gymnastik Star out of Kinnordy Goslar by Graf Landau) win the Level 2 Matthews Hanoverian Challenge.

Vale Daley K

Daley K (Daktylus(imp) out of Gold Song/(imp)/Goldstern by Gotthard. Breeder: Kinnordy Stud. Owner: Denis Crane) dies a few days short of his 28th birthday and one day after the Bega Showjumping Cup 2011 where four of his progeny went clear for the second round with James Grant winning the Cup on Cool K, Grant Hughes 3rd on Blackall Park Atlantis and David Boulten 8th on Special K.

Please view http://www.an-eventful-life.com.au/2012/01/influential-australian-stallion-daley-k-dies/

and see a slideshow of some of his many successful progeny at http://denisc.customer.netspace.net.au/