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LATEST: As global media jockey for position to get the shot of Zara Phillips arriving in Dunedin for her royal reckoning with her husband, the equestrian community is buzzing with rumours she's been shopping for a new horse in Auckland.
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The Queen's granddaughter is expected to arrive in Dunedin this afternoon to meet England rugby captain Mike Tindall, who was filmed cavorting with a mystery blonde in Queenstown, making tabloid headlines across the globe.
The newly-married couple have so far brushed the incident off, saying the woman was just an old friend.
Media representatives from New Zealand and around the world were today camped out in Dunedin airport's arrivals lounge, watching for the arrival of flights from Auckland.
English Sky Sports cameraman Dave Buxton said a picture of Zara arriving at Dunedin was the target of the day.
meanwhile, the equestrian community was today buzzing with a "big open secret" that Phillips was looking at horses to buy while she was in Auckland.
Phillips retired her 18-year-old world champion event horse Toy Town last month.
As for where she had been staying, several speculated that it was with Kate Lambie, a south Auckland-based eventer who has represented New Zealand.
Lambie is also a good friend of former eventer Catriona Williams whose charity event Phillips made an appearance at last night.
Yesterday, Phillips and a female travelling companion were whisked through a back exit of Auckland airport by police, then taken by chauffeur-driven Range Rover to a remote country house on the outskirts of the city.
Phillips changed her competition schedule and surprising even the most up-to-date gossip columnists with her arrival.
In efforts to avoid media, Phillips' attendance at the CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust event last night was not publicised, but she was spotted by Fairfax NZ photographers entering the venue just before 7pm.
Wearing a little black dress and a smile, Phillips, 30, showed no sign of cracking under the pressure put on by the international spotlight while speaking to attendees at the event.
"I'm massively proud and in awe of you guys," she said of Chris Quin, Jo Alison and Peter Finch who are running the New York Marathon to raise money for CatWalk.
"On behalf of CatWalk, Cat (founder Catriona Williams), me and everyone ... good luck ... I think you're massively strong people to do something like that."
New Zealand's Next Top Model judge and fashion personality Colin Mathura-Jeffree was looking after Phillips following the auction. When contacted he laughed and said he "couldn't talk right now".
Catriona Williams of CatWalk said it was great that everyone attended for the event rather than to see Phillips as her attendance had not been made public.
Tindall has been named in the England team to play Romania in Dunedin on Saturday.
- Stuff
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/fan-central/5664335/Media-equestrian-community-chasing-Zara
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