Good morning and welcome to Burghley cross country day — the moment we’ve all been waiting for! I will be updating this thread as often as possible to get you as close to live on
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Many thanks to Lucinda Green, a two time former winner of Burghley and of course six time winner of Badminton and medals too numerous to mention, for sitting down to chat quickly about the big,
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I still haven’t mastered the horse-show selfie. I typically find myself squinting in to my iPhone, trying to get a decent angle. Then of course, my pony moves and some how I bump it over
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We’re seeing lots of competitive dressage scores today after dressage completed for the Advanced and CIC3* divisions at the weekend’s headlining events. We have two Advanced and one CIC3* event running this weekend: Advanced at
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U.S. Team Coach David O’Connor was kind enough to stop and chat this afternoon at Burghley once all the dressage was over and discuss the U.S. performances thus far, and his expectations for them cross
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The bar was set high on the first day of dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. Michael Jung set the standard that went unchallenged until today with his Rolex winning mare, fischerRocana FST,
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As we head into the cross country on Saturday Michael Jung retains his Day One lead on fischerRocana FST but shares it overnight with William Fox-Pitt on four star first timer Fernhill Pimms. Australia’s Sam
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The international eventing community has lost a legend in Giltedge, who died yesterday at his owner Jacqueline Mars’ Stonehall Farm in The Plains, Virginia, at a ripe age of 29 years old. Inducted into the USEA
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Covert Rights showed real flashes of brilliance in his Land Rover Burghley dressage test this afternoon, an exciting sneak peek of how much more is still to come from this lovely, young horse and although
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The final qualifying division for the Adequan Gold Cup/PRO Tour Series kicks off this weekend at Aspen Farms Horse Trials in Yelm, Washington. Once again Tin Men Supply stepped forward to sponsor the Advanced division
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Laine Ashker and Anthony Patch have amassed a collection of blue ribbons during their career because they can perform well in the little white box and then back it up with two solid jumping phases.
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Looking at pictures of Burghley makes me so jealous right now, because it’s so green and lush and people are wearing jackets! It hasn’t rained here in….I don’t even know how long at this point.
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Burghley hosted the European Eventing Championships in 1989, when Great Britain took home team gold and swept the individual medals. Ginny Leng and Master Craftsman were the individual gold medalists,
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It was announced this week that Los Angeles is the official U.S. candidate bidding for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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While it was widely expected that a certain German, ahem Michael Jung, would be attending the press conference this afternoon, perhaps Niklas Bschorer, his young compatriot who lies 3rd overnight, was more of a surprise.
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The only really significant change in the leaderboard this afternoon at Burghley came at the very end of the day with the penultimate combination, Niklas Bschorer and Tom Tom Go 3. The youngest rider here
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Lynn Symansky rode Donner absolutely perfectly this afternoon to score a personal best for them both at this level and move into 13th place at the moment on 47.7. Although Lynn was obviously riding very
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We saw some nice tests between the first morning break today and the lunch at Burghley. Andrew Hoy must be wondering what he might have scored if it hadn’t been for a couple of bobbles
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Thursday morning dawned bright and sunny, albeit cool at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, much to everyone’s surprise and delight, and it’s almost all we can talk about. Almost … I was thrilled to bump
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As was widely expected, Michael Jung and FischerRocana FST, his winner at Rolex Kentucky earlier this year, came into the main arena at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials right before the first morning break
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Last year, I attended my very first Burghley, and it was just as amazing as you can imagine. The grounds are incredible, the jumps are freaking enormous, and the event has a HUGE shopping complex
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You know this is one of your favorite rounds of all time to watch as well! Sinead Halpin and Manoir de Carneville came tantilizingly close to winning the whole thing in 2012, earning the lowest
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Eventing Nation is incredibly lucky to be able to draw upon Nico Morgan’s expertise and experience, and share some of his beautiful pictures from Burghley this weekend. If you aren’t already following him on Twitter, please
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