Piggy March was a very worthy winner of Belsay’s inaugural CCI4*-S, taking the RBS Brewin Dolphin-sponsored class on Jayne McGivern’s grey stallion Halo. Piggy, a former winner of both Badminton and Burghley, was second after
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The following press release has been translated from German; please forgive any translation errors! On Saturday, 34-year-old Louise Romeike defended her top spot during the cross country phase of the Marbach International Eventing competition in
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It’s not every day a legend like Marilyn Payne personally picks up the reins to save an event — but that’s exactly what she’s doing for the much-beloved Essex Horse Trials, which have undergone a
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Aaron Millar and KEC Deakon are in pole position in Belsay’s inaugural RBC Brewin Dolphin-sponsored CCI4*-S after the first day of dressage at the Northumberland horse trials. Cirencester-based Aaron, who is making his first trip
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British Eventing is pleased to announce the team that have been selected to represent Great Britain at the CCIO4*-S Nations Cup competition at Bicton Arena International (1) between 22 – 25 May is as follows:
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From May 22 to 25, 2025, the 17th edition of the international eventing competition – the Equestrian Festival Baborówko – will take place in Baborówko, Poland. The start lists for the international classes feature 250
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The following press release has been translated from German; please forgive any translation errors! At precisely 9 a.m. on Thursday, the opening day of the 2025 International Marbach Eventing, 33-year-old Fouaad Mirza entered Dressage Arena
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“The number of entries is impressive,” says Dr. Anna Fecke (BadGrönenbach) from the tournament management, “we have more registrations than last year!” Over 120 riders from eleven nations, bringing approximately 170 horses, will saddle up
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There’s something rather cool about completing your first Badminton when you’re the youngest rider in the field. Tom Bird, 23, has two Burghleys under his belt before this week, but now he’s done the “double
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Badminton’s Glentrool Trophy, awarded to “the horse and rider who have made the greatest improvement on their dressage placing” – in other words, the pair who have shot the furthest up the leaderboard, has a
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The first big test of the newer partnership of Boyd Martin and Liz Halliday’s Paris horse, Cooley Nutcracker, came this weekend as the pair contested their first CCI4*-L together at the Yanmar America Tryon International.
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Sunday at Badminton always feels like three different days of three very different lengths, all rolled into one: there’s the morning’s long, slow final horse inspection, which is a full-scale, high-tension competitive endeavour in its
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This is it. The Badminton title awaits. There’s just the small matter of keeping the poles in the cups first… I’ll be with you for every fence, bringing you a ringside seat as the competitors
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Yesterday was a very good day in the office for Oliver Townend, who retained his first-phase lead with eleven-year-old Cooley Rosalent, adding just 1.2 time penalties, and also retained his ninth place position with eighteen-year-old Ballaghmor Class, who added
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There’s been plenty of discussion in the lead-up to today’s cross country challenge at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials about how different it all feels: for the first time in a few years, the sun
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As the vast Badminton crowd, sunburnt and star-struck, dispersed at the end of a marathon cross country day, EN sat down course-designer Eric Winter. This was Eric’s sixth Badminton track, and the unflappable, garrulous Welshman
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We’re not quite half-way through 2025 and here we hurdle into our third CCI5* event of the season! MARS Badminton is the first of two British 5* events with a ton of history bolstering them
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Here we go ENers! It’s Saturday. It’s Badminton. It’s cross country day. Buckle up for the best day. I’ll be with you all day long, live blogging ‘til I can live blog no more, bringing
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There is some sort of a joke about famous Belgians. I can’t actually remember what it is, except that the point is that there aren’t any. Excepting Agatha Christie’s moustachioed maestro, Hercule Poirot, of course.
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The fences are decorated and flagged, the ground is primed, and the consensus among this year’s MARS Badminton Horse Trials contenders is clear: this year’s Eric Winter-designed course is classic Badminton: big, bold, and built
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Tom McEwen made a valiant effort at clinging onto his dressage lead with JL Dublin, but after holding it for 24 hours, he was elbowed out of the top spot by late contenders Oliver Townend
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Nearly everyone who competes at Badminton puts in very long hours, riding horses at dawn and dusk. Only one of them, this year at least, spent the intervening hours – between sunrise and sunset –
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No one has been able to surpass day one frontrunners, Tom McEwen and JL Dublin, on the MARS Badminton Horse Trials leaderboard so far, and at this sunny midpoint of the Friday’s dressage, their 22.4
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