Ovkors lived in a paddock just outside the little village of Tai Tapu, near Christchurch. He was a very friendly, golden brown horse with a white flash down his nose. It was Christmas Eve and Ovkors was chewing on his evening hay when he spied bandits heading into the village. Ovkors began life on the way to pre-school one sunny Christchurch morning after Nick and his sons had been listening to the Alice the Camel song. From there Ovkors grew in to the hero of this story, the horse who saved Christmas for the families in Tai Tapu, a small village near Christchurch, on New Zealand's South Island.
