Champion eventing rider Andrew Nicholson won't be competing at his seventh Olympics in Rio in August.

A seventh Olympic Games beckons for Kiwi equestrian Mark Todd after finishing fourth at the Badminton Horse Trials in England.

Jock Paget and Tim Price have positioned themselves ideally for a strong push in the cross country stage at the Kentucky four star eventing trial tomorrow.

New Zealand's two most successful Olympic eventers could team up again in Rio this year.

All Black and Blues prop Charlie Faumuina and jockey Mark Du Plessis talk about their big sporting weekend. Faumuina will battle the Hurricanes at Eden Park tonight and Du Plessis will saddle up in half a dozen Auckland Cup Day races tomorrow.

Nicholson has kept his four-star veterans Nereo and Avebury, and continues to develop his latest hope Jet Set. He's planning for the former pair to accompany him to Badminton.

If New Zealand's Olympic team is to be aspirational at Rio next year, here's a suggestion: target the team events.

Michelle Payne's Melbourne Cup win on Prince of Penzance struck a blow against sporting misogyny.

Obstacles have loomed as regularly as fences and jumps for former world and Olympic eventing champion Blyth Tait in his comeback, but his Rio Games dream remains alive.

Veteran rider Andrew Nicholson's neck injury shocked the equestrian community but New Zealand's two Olympic eventing gold medallists say the sport has never been safer.

Andrew Nicholson has undergone successful surgery to repair the injury to his neck suffered during a fall from his horse.

Nicholson fell after the last fence on the cross-country course at Gatcombe Park, where he was in the lead.