ESNZ Para-Equestrian

 became the fifth discipline of Equestrian Sports New Zealand in 2009, not long after the FEI made Para-Equestrian its eighth. The FEI rules currently prevail, with no New Zealand variants developed by November 2010.

The inaugural National Para-Equestrian Championships were held at Clevedon in late March 2010.

Both the National and the North Island Para-Equestrian Championships were scheduled for 26 to 28 November 2010, but earlier in that month the website page for the Nationals contained only a link to a page heralding the ESNZ Para-Equestrian National Dressage Championships set down for 4-6 February 2011 at Christchurch.