Nicholson chooses products manufactured by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research, to fuel the training and performance efforts of his top-level event horses.

Nicholson finished in third place with another horse, Calico Joe. His score coming into the show jumping phase was good enough to allow him to have three rails down and still claim the third spot. Nicholson, a rider from New Zealand, is sponsored by Bluegrass Feeds in Ireland. Bluegrass Feeds is a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

John McEwen, First Vice President of the FEI, presented the honor to Nicholson at the London International Horse Show. Besides his Olympic performance on Nereo, other successes for the year included a seventh-place finish at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, a win at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (third leg of the HSBC FEI Classics 2011/2012 series), and a fourth at the following leg, the Luhmühlen CCI4*.

Eager to share the credit for his wins, Nicholson said, "I've been extremely lucky with my horses Nereo, Mr Cruise Control, Calico Joe, Avebury, and Qwanza." He is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feed, a Kentucky Equine Research Team Member.

Besides bringing home a bronze medal from the Olympic Games in London, Nicholson has finished in first place in a number of top-level events this year. Most recently, he rode Nereo to first place at the Pau CCI**** event in France. He claimed seventh place with Mr. Cruise Control in the same division, where more than half of the 63 starting horses failed to finish. Earlier in the year, Nicholson won the Barbury Castle Horse Trials and the Burghley Horse Trials with Avebury. He also rode Quimbo to wins at the Boekelo and Blenheim events this fall. 

Nicholson, who rides for New Zealand, is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feed, a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

 

Riding the 12-year-old Avebury, Nicholson was in second place before the show jumping phase and had one rail down, but his score took him into first place when the leading rider, Sinead Halpin, had three fences down and dropped to second. 

Nicholson, who rides for New Zealand, is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

Andrew Nicholson will compete in eventing for the New Zealand team. Nicholson is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds in Ireland. Bluegrass Horse Feeds is a KER Team Member.

Saracen Horse Feeds, a KER Team Member in the U.K., sponsors Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin, both of whom have been chosen to represent that country in dressage.

Barastoc/KER will sponsor Megan Jones, who is the reserve rider for the eventing team from Australia. Barastoc is a KER Brand Alliance Partner.

KER's Australian office sponsors Grace Bowman, a para-equestrian who will ride for Australia in the Paralympic dressage competition.

KER's U.S. office sponsors Karen O'Connor and Phillip Dutton, Olympic veterans who will again represent the U.S. at the Olympic Games.

KER applauds these equestrians and their horses and wishes them the best of luck during the summer's international competition.

Riding at the Barbury event for the United States, Phillip Dutton placed fourteenth on Mystery Whisper and Karen O'Connor rode Mr. Medicott to 33rd place. Both riders, who have just been chosen to represent the United States at the London Olympic Games, are sponsored by Kentucky Equine Research.

A good dressage test started the pair off on the right foot, and a clear cross-country ride put Nicholson in fifth place before the show jumping phase. With a single rail down, he moved up in the overall standings, finishing with 45.7 penalties.

Nicholson also rode Mr Cruise Control at the event and was pleased to receive a score of a perfect 10 on one of his dressage moves. Getting a 10 is a rare event for any rider, and this score came from a top international judge at one of the few four-star events in the world. Mr Cruise Control would have finished first for the weekend but had some problems on the cross-country course, picking up jumping and time penalties to knock him far down in the final standings.

Nicholson is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

Nicholson is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Kentucky Equine Research Team Member.

An event at the three-star level is a difficult test for any horse, but Nicholson will not be concentrating on winning at Bramham. Rather, he will use the competition as a last training tune-up. Conditioning for the Olympic Games has been difficult for riders based in England because several of the spring's events have been curtailed or cancelled due to severe weather. The Bramham event will serve as the final selection trial for the British Olympic team.

Nicholson has won two team medals in previous Olympic competition but has never claimed an Olympic individual medal. He is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

Nicholson, who rides for New Zealand, is a probable Olympic Games contender sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds in Ireland. Bluegrass Feeds is a Team Member of Kentucky Equine Research.

Nicholson claimed second place with Nereo in Advanced Section L after a single show jumping rail dropped the pair out of first place. 

He also finished in second place in Advanced Section A on Avebury, one of his possible Badminton entries. 

Nicholson is sponsored by Bluegrass Horse Feeds, a Kentucky Equine Research Team Member.

Karen O'Connor rode Mr. Medicott, a 13-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding, to fourth place in the event. In fourth after the dressage phase, O'Connor had a few time penalties on the cross-country course to drop to fifth at the end of the second day. Her double-clear stadium round helped her advance to a final fourth-place standing. An experienced horsewoman who has won the event in the past, O'Connor is hoping to ride for the United States in this summer's Olympic Games in London. She is sponsored by KER and also by Pennfield Equine Feed Technologies.

New Zealand rider Andrew Nicholson finished in seventh place on Qwanza, a nine-year-old CDE mare. Nicholson, who is sponsored by KER Team Member Bluegrass Horse Feeds, stood in 24th place after dressage. He rode double-clear rounds in both the cross-country and stadium phases, moving him up to seventh position.

Another rider who moved up considerably because of excellent cross-country and stadium rounds was Phillip Dutton, who placed tenth on Mighty Nice and twelfth on Fernhill Eagle. Both horses are Irish Sport Horse geldings. Though he had stadium rails down with each horse, Dutton finished with fewer penalties than many riders because of his fast and accurate rides in the cross-country phase of the event. Dutton is sponsored by KER.

Rankings may change after the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event to be held in late April. Fox-Pitt has one horse entered, while Nicholson has listed three entries in the challenging competition.

Nicholson is sponsored by Blue Grass Horse Feeds, a Kentucky Equine Research Team Member.