EN’s classic full report will be with you just as soon as our boots on the ground have wrangled all the action into a readable format, until then, here’s a rapid update of what went
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The field has further thinned at this morning’s final horse inspection at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials, with five cross-country finishers bowing out of the competition ahead of today’s showjumping finale. Two horses were withdrawn
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Mia Farley knew she’d come out of this weekend’s CCI4*-L at Tryon International having learned new things, both about herself and her ride, Karen O’Connor’s Invictus. Ten years old this year, Invictus has quite a
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About an hour into today’s cross-country phase at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials, it all looked a bit as though the writing was on the wall: the course was too soft, the time too gettable,
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We’re back with EN’s classic live blog for the second time this season to bring you every scrap of the cross country action as it happens from MARS Badminton. Stay tuned ENers, we’re in for
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Simply put, Eric Winters’ course this year is “BIG”. Or as Will Rawlin so eloquently put it, “It’s bloody huge!”. But you don’t go to Badminton to jump cavalettis and a recurring thread throughout the
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Caroline Pamucku has one primary goal on her mind this weekend at the Tryon International CCI4*-L, where she’s here to contest HSH Connor’s first run at this Long level. Incidentally, this weekend marks the first
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We are kicking off another week of CCI5* action, this time outside of London at the 2026 MARS Badminton Horse Trials! As is tradition, you can use this Ultimate Guide as your one-stop shop to
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In a thrilling about-face after the Friday lunch-break at MARS Badminton, seven horses and riders posted unprecedented sub-22 scores to push Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo right out of – nah, don’t worry, we’re kidding,
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EN’s classic full report will be with you just as soon as our boots on the ground have wrangled all the action into a readable format, until then, here’s a rapid update of what went
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Nothing in life can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and, in this era of eventing, the continued dominance of Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo. The reigning MARS Badminton champions come into this
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We are through dressage in the latest US Equestrian Open of Eventing qualifier in the CCI4*-S at Tryon International and underway with the headlining CCI4*-L division as just a few pairs got their tests out
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Seven CCI5* starts into her career, it’s a MARS Badminton debut this weekend for the 16-year-old Ferro Point (Match Point – Ferra Jones VII) — and the meaning of the weekend goes beyond “just” cantering
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Every year, at nearly every major event I report on, there’s Tiana Coudray – plugging away, producing her horses, a smile on her face and head groom and business partner Annabelle James by her side.
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Say what you will about a Thursday morning at MARS Badminton (and boy, do the riders: “I don’t think the judges have woken up yet,” sniffed one, who will remain anonymous to protect the grumpy),
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We are underway in North Carolina with the Tryon International Three-Day Event, where among others we have our first CCI4*-L of the 2026 season here in the U.S.. We’ll be following closely all week, and
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As Smash Mouth once sang (kind of), the five-stars start coming and they simply do. Not. Stop. Coming. Adelaide? Kentucky? Completed them, mate, with barely enough time to do some deep breathing into a paper
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Here it is — the Big, Bad, Bold Badminton Form Guide to your horses and riders for our 2026 edition. Hold on tight and follow along below as the riders take to the field (and
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The famous wartime journalist Hal Borland once wrote that “no winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Well, sorry Hal, but we’re still smarting over here from those two Badminton-less springs during the pandemic,
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The MARS Badminton CCI5* field has whittled to 64 entries with a few more withdrawals this week including one top contender in Oliver Townend’s Cooley Rosalent. The 2024 Defender Kentucky champion had also proven to
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It’s the omnipresent goal for every rider to call time on a horse’s career at the right time. Generally speaking, many riders are able to make this call at the right time — before an
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In the midst of Kentucky, we failed on getting you updates from the Strzegom Spring Open II (Poland), which concluded on Sunday. The following press release from Strzegom has been edited with some additional information.
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Buckle in everyone — we’ve got a lot to say today! Last October as the action wound down from the inaugural Final of the US Equestrian Open of Eventing at Morven Park, I gathered my
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