From the onset of this morning’s jumping session at MARS Badminton, which comprised places 21-40 on the provisional leaderboard, it was clear that the tightly-packed scoreboard would be put through its paces. Rather than the
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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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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 Two horses were withdrawn
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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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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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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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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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The drawn order for our next CCI5* is live, and once more it’ll be World #1 Harry Meade who will lead the way for dressage and cross country at the 2026 MARS Badminton CCI5* in
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One Big Thing: The Badminton Horse Trials App View this post on Instagram A post shared by Badminton Horse Trials (@bhorsetrials) If you’re headed to Badminton in a few short weeks, you’ll want
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Our first CCI5* entry list of the year has gone live today, and it’s the stalwart roster we’ve come to anticipate for this year’s MARS Badminton Horse Trials, which has 79 entries and no waitlisted
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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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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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