The EN Chinchilla might have crashed the press conference this afternoon at Badminton Horse Trials, where Paul Tapner, Francis Whittington and Lucinda Fredericks spoke about their dressage tests, all of which scored in the 30s.
...» Read More!
Kate called it in her Badminton preview, and Paul Tapner and Kilronan absolutely rose to the occasion today to deliver a jaw-dropping 36.0 at Badminton Horse Trials to hold the overnight lead after the first
...» Read More!
Clark Montgomery battled the wind and rain to find EN in the Badminton media center this afternoon to talk about his dressage test this morning with Universe. While Clark desperately wanted Buzz to get into
...» Read More!
Francis Whittington and Easy Target snuck in to absolutely steal the show this morning at Badminton Horse Trials, and they lead at the lunch break on the first day of dressage on a score of
...» Read More!
Clark Montgomery and Universe achieved their lowest score yet in a CCI4* this morning at Badminton, posting 50.8, which bests their scores from Badminton last year of 54.3 and 52.0 at Pau. Buzz has been a
...» Read More!
The festivities are officially underway at Badminton, with the first horse inspection wrapping up this afternoon and all 83 horses moving on to the dressage. Times have now been posted, and Clark Montgomery and Universe
...» Read More!
A few weeks ago, the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials cross country course was unveiled in a detailed video with course designer Giuseppe della Chiesa’s comments on his vision for this year. The Badminton Facebook
...» Read More!
All 83 horses that presented to the ground jury passed the first horse inspection at Badminton Horse Trials this afternoon. The weather has been dodgy all day, with rain falling early this morning and then
...» Read More!
Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister arrived on the Badminton grounds this morning, ready for their second crack at the event and hoping to improve on their placing of 17th last year. Finn looks very much up
...» Read More!
Good morning from Badminton Horse Trials! Between the Mitsubishi Motors Grassroots Championships, the four-star horses and riders arriving on the grounds, and spectators coming out in droves in anticipation of this afternoon’s first horse inspection,
...» Read More!
We only have four North Americans competing at Badminton this year, and all but Peter Atkins are based in England. But each one of them — Clark Montgomery, Tiana Coudray, Rebecca Howard and Peter —
...» Read More!
Jacky Green caught up with Canadian superstar Rebecca Howard after one of her final flat schools with British 5* dressage judge Isobel Wessels to talk about her final preparations for Badminton with Riddle Master, and she
...» Read More!
Although we were all sorely disappointed to not see Peter Atkins and Henry Jota Hampton frolic around Rolex this year, Peter has set Badminton in his sights with a vengeance. Not only is Badminton a
...» Read More!
With Rolex in our rearview, it is now with great anticipation that we look forward to Badminton, which begins next week. One of the ways that I fell in love with Eventing as a young’un
...» Read More!
The other heralded spring CCI4*, Badminton, is getting ready to go off in just a couple of weeks, and the draw has been posted this morning. Izzy Taylor will kick things off in the dressage
...» Read More!
Badminton unveiled Giuseppe Della Chiesa’s cross-country course this morning in an excellent 24-minute video in which Giuseppe and Hugh Thomas take viewers on a walk around the 30 jumping efforts. Hugh has designed the course for the
...» Read More!
Tiana Coudray confirmed this morning that she will forgo her Land Rover grant for Rolex to compete at Badminton with Ringwood Magister. “I am so appreciative for the opportunity to go to Kentucky, but when it came
...» Read More!
From Michael: Irish-bred event horses account for 34 percent of the accepted entries for this years’ Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials. The eight former Badminton winners returning to the UK event this year are New
...» Read More!
Badminton entries are finally live, and all eight American pairs that entered have been accepted. Those are: Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister Bruce Davidson and Park Trader Bruce Davidson and Ballynoe Castle RM Will Faudree
...» Read More!
The Western Daily Press has a nice article about Zara Phillips, her new baby, and plans to return to competition. Zara mentioned she has her sights set on Badminton this spring– her own mother competed
...» Read More!
Hot on the heels of the sale of his Olympic mount Shamwari to Boyd Martin, Ludwig Svennerstal is packing up his horses and moving in with Mark Todd at Badgerstown. All six of his horses
...» Read More!
Badminton announced today on its website that prize money is increasing for this year’s event, going up to £80,000 from £65,000 for the winning rider. The lower placings will also receive a boost in prize money
...» Read More!Italian course designer Giuseppe della Chiesa has begun making his mark on the 2014 Badminton cross-country course in his first year on the job, and he’s most notably introducing a new water complex to the
...» Read More!
