Shane Rose on a local horse during the victory gallop At the HKSAR 10th Anniversary Cup in Hong Kong. Shane received the Bronze Medal. His horse Statford Novalis was already in quarantine. Photograph:Franz Venhaus

On the cross-country, I thought I rode the horse to a plan, which was very good. He got a little tired about three quarters down the course. I brought him home as quickly and as safely as I could.  We got a few time penalties, which compared to the filed was pretty good for a horse that is quite heavy and galloping is probably not so natural to him. He recovered really well.  The trot-up was good.

In the first round of Jumping, he was quite spooky at a lot of things, especially at the (display) horse that was in the arena. At the first fence I had down, I just got a little deep and he was a little flat and probably just did not jump high enough.  I should have given him a little more room but it did not happen. At the second fence I had down, he shied very badly at the horse and I was on a very bad line towards the fence with disunited canter and just got a very bad distance unfortunately.

In the second round he was very good.  Wayne helped me warm him up, and we did a really good job and he jumped really well.

We have learned a huge amount from this event with the two very different horses. Megan (Jones) did a brilliant job with hers. I think we have got a very deep knowledge base to come back here next year and hopefully do very well."

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More photos later.
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Earlier today:

Australian horse pass horse inspection, ready for the Jumping in Hong Kong

Shane Rose and Statford Novalis have 57.6 penalties and Megan Jones and Kirby Park Fedwell 63.2.  The two leading German riders are on 53.4 and 53.6 penalties, respectively.