New Zealand riders are well down the field after the first day of dressage at the Badminton Horse trials with Caroline Powell on Lenamore the best placed at 15th.
Dan Jocelyn and Special Adovate are 27th with Joe Meyer and Black Andy 31st.
Annabel Wigley withdrew Black Down before the dressage, which continues tomorrow with the other half of the 80-strong field.
Emily Baldwin and Drivetime have a narrow overnight lead from Ruth Edge on Mayhem III, with another English rider Jo May on Faere Vision third.
The cross country's on Sunday and the show jumping on Monday.
New Zealand's three time winner Mark Todd had hoped to return to the event for the first time in nine years but had to withdraw after his horse Gandalf suffered a neck injury.
