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Hosting an International Jousting Tournament.
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Attending an Overseas Jousting Tournament
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New Zealand Mounted Rifles One of our displays as part of the 1914 - 1918 Commemorations
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Horse and Foot Combat
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Medieval Horsemanship
The weapons are real. The action is real.
From the full force, full contact medieval joust to the discipline and grit of the early 20th century New Zealand Mounted Rifles, The Order of the Boar is New Zealand’s own cavalry re-enactment group.
We are a non-profit group that specialises in recreating various aspects of history emphasising the role of the horse and rider. We portray our activities at public displays throughout New Zealand in support of community events and charitable fund raisers.
While we have a particular emphasis on the medieval period - particularly Jousting, we also portray the role of the horse in military history. So in addition to the medieval period, we also portray 16th Century Anglo/Scottish Border Reivers and First World War New Zealand Mounted Rifles.
We pay particular attention to horse welfare while also portraying our activities as historically accurate as possible.
We are also well known both locally and internationally as one of the pioneers in rediscovering the art of medieval jousting and its development as a modern sport both in New Zealand and around the world.
(Order of the Boar Summer 2020 Workshop - Day 1
The Order of the Boar is sponsored by The Red Knight - New Zealands own online provider of functional medieval armour and other fine handcrafted products including drinking horns, hand made journals and walking sticks among others.
What's New - February 2021
Covid-19 has impacted every aspect of our lives. Even here in New Zealand, we have been unabe to run normal public events over our Summer. This means that there were no jousting displays over the 2020/2021 jousting saason.
We have been using this time to rebuild our team of horses and we would like to welcome Nugget to our team. Nugget was originally owned by the late John King - a skilled and accomplished horseman and jouster who sadly passed away in 2019. Nugget is a proven warhorse whose addition to our stable now gives us 4 horses in Upper Hutt that joust.
Along with our team of 4 Warhorses in Upper Hutt, we have another 4 warhorses across our wider tam elsewhere in New Zealand.
If you are an event organiser, organising a public event and are interested in hiring us to do a jousting display for your event later in 2021 0or early in 2022 then please contact Callum.
(Glen King riding Nugget at a jousting event)
UPCOMING EVENTS
All local and international events were cancelled because of Covid-19.
We hope to be able to host or attend events again in New Zealand later in the year.
MEMBERSHIP
CONTACT
Order of the Boar (Upper Hutt Team) - Callum
Order of the Boar - (Stratford Team) - Emily
Order of the Boar - (Hamilton Team) - Simon
For all display inquiries please contact Callum