The 2022 spring season is effectively capped off after this weekend’s spring FEI event at Tryon International in Mill Spring, Nc. It’s been an intense period of back-to-back 5* events followed by Pratoni and Tryon
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Though we’re on site at Pratoni with September at the forefront of our minds, today’s cross-country competition does also serve as an important leg in the 2022 Nations Cup series — and one in which
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While this week’s CCIO4*-S at Italy’s Pratoni del Vivaro is an important competition in its own right as an early leg of 2022’s FEI Nations Cup series (and, not insignificantly, the Italian National Championships), many of those
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Big picture is the name of the game for Doug Payne, who invariably seems to have a slew of horses stepping up the levels in succession; after the announcement of Vandiver’s retirement over Kentucky weekend,
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We’re not done yet! The spring season continues this weekend with a CCI4*-L hosted at Tryon International. For some this is a move up or a confirming test, others have rerouted here from other spring
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After suffering a crashing fall on cross country at Badminton Horse Trials on Saturday, British Equestrian has provided an update on the condition of reigning European Champion Nicola Wilson. Both Nicola as well as JL
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Few were under any illusion that it would be a difficult day: today’s course was, without a doubt, the toughest, most ‘proper’ five-star track we’ve seen since Burghley 2019, and many riders expressed some healthy
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by @danipaigem (@dmoysem) From the perspective of someone who’s never been to Badminton, I’ll tell you my main takeaway: it looks like an absolute party. I think
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It’s time! One I got done grumbling at my alarm this morning (which was honestly quite a bit later than the 12:30 a.m. alarms for dressage days) it was time to get excited about Badminton
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We’re just half an hour away from the start of cross-country here at Badminton Horse Trials, and what feels like the first serious top-end cross-country challenge we’ve seen since before the pandemic. At eleven minutes,
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After two days of dressage at Badminton, there are certain overarching trends you start to pick up on. The first, and most obvious, is that the calibre of horses in this country has reached a
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Mike Winter / El Mundo – 34.6 – 51st On his dressage test today: “That would be my worst score at the level so I don’t know. I thought it was an alright test. He
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If you go and look at the Badminton Horse Trials location tag this fine Friday afternoon, you’re going to see approximately 100 images of the Ford Broken Bridge that has everyone buzzing ahead of tomorrow’s
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We always enjoy a good look through the lens of our favorite photographers, and this weekend we’re lucky enough to be working with both Nico Morgan for our reports as well as Shannon Brinkman. Shannon
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David Doel is going to his first Badminton with a plan: he wants to make the British team. His CV says it all, and this charmingly modest, mild-mannered farmer’s son sees Badminton this weekend as
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Welcome to day two at Badminton Horse Trials, presented by MARS Equestrian! We’ve got one more day of dressage action ahead of tomorrow’s exciting cross country test, and while we saw a lot of big
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It doesn’t often happen that Badminton’s Thursday morning leader remains in the top spot through the rest of the day, but that’s exactly what happened in today’s competition: coming forward as just the fourth competitor of
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Another busy day at Badminton is in the books as we inch closer to Saturday’s thrilling cross country test. But for now, it’s about keeping a lid on the energy and ekeing out the most
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We’ve got an excellent contingent of American, Canadian and American-based Australian riders tackling Badminton this week, which means we’ve got plenty to catch up on after the majority of them rode their dressage tests today.
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Long gone are the days of easing into Badminton week with a batch of mid-30s marks on Thursday morning: today’s first batch of competitors was so flush with major names and heavy-hitters that the gauntlet was
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Some days, I think my role as a journalist in this sport is to chronicle its ups and downs, to chart its progress and its shortfalls, and to do my tiny little bit to help
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Good morning and welcome to the first day of Badminton Horse Trials, presented by MARS Equestrian! It’s going to be a wonderful day of dressage competition as we’ll see the first half of the 83-combination
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