But the dream was more than fulfilled.Katie Parker finished sixth on Cornish Envoy who, like Bally Free, had been short-listed for the World Games in Rome.BURGHLEY PEDIGREE CHUM HORSE TRIALS (Stamford, Lincs) Final positions: 1 Chesterfield (B Tait, NZ) 67.8 penalties; 2 Aspyring (B Tait, NZ) 82.0; 3 Hinnegar (A Nicholson, NZ) 92.0; 4 Bally Free (J Tulloch, GB) 95.8; 5 Silence (D Jocelyn, NZ) 101.6; 6 Cornish Envoy (K Parker, GB) 103.0.. Jancis Tulloch, the best of the British, was fourth on Bally Free.”I came here dreaming of finishing in the top 10,” Tulloch said. Thomas missed out on the same cash prize in Saturday’s 400m at the Grand Prix final in Moscow, when Mark Richardson avenged his European Championship defeat by beating the Welshman into third place. She had the fastest cross- country time on Saturday and felt that Bally Free was feeling the effects of his exertions when he had three show jumps down and dropped one place yesterday. A fellow New Zealander, Mark Todd, who filled the top two places here in 1987, is the only other rider to achieve this result in the contest’s 37 years.

Tait, who had considered withdrawing Chesterfield after the dressage, took the horse from equal 12th to first on Saturday after a splendid round over the soggy cross-country course. Yesterday he jumped one of only four clear show-jumping rounds to win by a commanding margin.
This was the first Burghley victory for the great New Zealand horseman, who currently holds the Olympic, British and Scottish championships and will be aiming to regain the world title in Italy next month.Two other Kiwis – Andrew Nicholson on Hinnegar and Daniel Jocelyn on Silence – underlined their nation’s strength by filling third and fifth places. BLYTH TAIT could forget all about disappointing dressage marks yesterday when he rode Chesterfield and Aspyring into first and second places on the final day of the Burghley Pedigree Chum Horse Trials and collected pounds 26,000. The fortunate champion boxed far below his best on the way to a 116-113, 115-113, 114-114 verdict. On this form he would stand little chance in a unification bout against the World Boxing Organisation champion Joe Calzaghe..

Win third game, 1-0 at Everton.September 5: Spurs announce his departure.Record: Premiership: Played 26; Won 9; Drawn 7; Lost 10; Goals for: 35; Against 41; Points 34 FA Cup: Played 3; Won 1; Drawn 1; Lost 1.. RICHIE WOODHALL wore the expression of a condemned man rather than one who had got out of jail – Glenn Catley’s countenance befitted a person who had invested his life savings in the Russian rouble. For Woodhall there was clearly little satisfaction in his statistical triumph over Catley in the first defence of the World Boxing Council super- middleweight championship at the Telford Ice Rink on Saturday. He admitted: “I thought he [Catley] nicked it.”
In contrast, Catley could take much pride from his title effort – but not the title he thought he had earned. “I was told 500 times after I left the ring that I’d been robbed,” he said. 1997: November: Appointed Tottenham manager following the resignation of Gerry Francis.

Suffers unhappy start to his spell in charge at White Hart Lane as side struggle to move away from relegation fight. December: Responds to a 6-1 defeat at home to Chelsea by bringing Jurgen Klinsmann back to White Hart Lane. The German’s contract stipulates that he cannot be dropped.
1998: February: Spurs knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley in the third round.March: Public dispute with Klinsmann. “I have totally dofferent views about the way we should play,” says the German.May: Secures Premiership safety with 6-2 victory at Wimbledon in the penultimate match of the season.June: Signs the unknown Italian defender Paolo Tramezzani from Piacenza for pounds 1.35m – his only summer signing.August: Angry Spurs supporters protest outside White Hart Lane after second game of the season (3-0 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday). Most seemed prepared to see what Gross, now assisted by David Pleat as technical director, could come up with in terms of summer transfers and what sort of a team that might mean this season. The side booed off after the first two games, with one new but little-known Italian full-back, was not quite what they had in mind. The great foreign adventure, they believed, had brought them a Jo Venglos, not an Arsene Wenger.Keeping up with the Monsieur Joneses by simply stealing their ideas had not worked Why would it and why should it have done?.