The government's two-party-preferred lead is out of kilter with other polls published recently, which have the major parties level-pegging at 50 per cent apiece.
However, whether tent pegging developed cavaliers' generic skills or prepared them for specific combat situations is shrouded in anecdote and national chauvinism.
It recognizes and governs ten disciplines: dressage, combined driving, endurance riding, eventing, horseball, para-equestrian, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, and equestrian vaulting.