THE GOLDEN AGE OF THOROUGHBRED SHOWJUMPING HORSES & RIDERS IN SOUTH AFRICA (PART ONE)
Pictured above: An amazing South African Showjumping Team photograph C1985 of from left to right FLAUNT & Gonda Betrix / POWERFORCE & Barry Taylor / STORM FINCH & Anneli Wucherpfennig / GOSSIPER & Peter Gotz. In Part One, of what will be a three part series, we take a look at the cream of the hugely talented pool of Thoroughbred horses, who once finished with their racing careers, went on to establish themselves as exceptional showjumping horses of the highest order in South Africa together with their riders, many of whom became household names from the late 1960s through to the early 1990s. During that period these super athletes thrilled big crowds at major events like the Rand Easter Show, the Royal Show, the Rothmans Showjumping Derby and the Tongaat Grand
Prix. Many of them were also brought directly into our living rooms by the SABC during the Saturday afternoon sport shows of the early years of television in South Africa.
