It was a centrepiece when Cardiff staged the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games when Ninian Park was home to the show-jumping event.

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Last year she switched sporting allegiance from Kenya to Britain and made an impressive start at the British Championships before representing England at last year's Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

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Private consultants, many of them British, have long worked on other globe-trotting events like the Commonwealth games, the Asian games, and football and rugby world cups, on contracts lasting from six months to years.

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