A scant few years ago, you’d have been forgiven for not being able to name a single Swiss event rider. Now, though, the times are a-changing – or have been changing, really, for an Olympic
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@burghleyhorsetrials) Here’s one you won’t want to miss! Tom McEwen piloted the 14-year-old Irish mare, CHF Cooliser (Womanizer – Super Spring, by
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It’s GO time at this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials in the UK, and we’ve kicked things off today with the First Horse Inspection held inside the Main Arena on site. We’ll have full reports
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Could it be argued that today’s Defender Burghley showjumping track was built on the softer side? Absolutely – it certainly walked as a much different type of track than the enormously influential one we saw
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And so we find ourselves on the edge of our seats, chomping at the bit to discover who will take home the Burghley trophy, but there’s much more than the glory, impressive purse and gorgeous
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The field of competitors at the Defender Burghley CCI5* has thinned from 43 to 39 after this morning’s final horse inspection, which took place after a night of heavy rain on site. Three of those
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Collectively, there probably hasn’t been many hours of sleep logged amongst the competitors at Defender Burghley ahead of today’s cross-country day; what little that was, no doubt, was plagued with night sweats and prolonged horror
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Historic venue – check. Saturday – check. Formidable field of 5* combinations raring to go – check. All this can only mean one thing: it’s cross country day at Defender Burghley. Bring. It. On. This
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It’s time to take a deep breath and take a gander at what Derek di Grazia has up his sleeve this year for his third year in residence at Defender Burghley’s iconic CCI5* offering. This
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OK, so I’ve taken a little creative liberty with that headline, but what’s a missing ‘r’ between friends? In case you’re wondering, the consensus is that Derek needs to trim his bush (sorry, not sorry),
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Irish rider Declan Cullen wryly refers to himself as “the grandfather” this weekend, not only earning the title of eldest rider at age 56 but also laying down a healthy dose of “if I can
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And so we come to the conclusion of the first phase at the 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials – one in which, so far, it’s really just Ros Canter’s world, and the rest of us
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There are two easy ways to put the pressure on a seriously fit event horse in the dressage ring at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials – you can present them with a boisterous, determined wind,
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We’re back at Burghley for the second day’s dressage and I’ll be bringing you every single step from between the white boards as the first phase leaderboard is ironed out, that is before it’s inevitably
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We spoke too much, yesterday, about Burghley and its late-summer golden sunlight, didn’t we? We were cursed, apparently, for breaking the first rule of journalism: that is, never write about the weather, you boring bugger.
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a ground jury on a Thursday morning must be in want of a few marks – must, surely, be stiff and ungenerous, lending a natural benefit to those riders
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@burghleyhorsetrials) The fall edition of the British 5* offerings is always a hotly contested event and what a class we’ve
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We’re ready to dive right into this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials, and before competition gets underway tomorrow (Thursday), we’ve got a look at this year’s 66-combination field. There’s never enough time or space to
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Nothing feels quite as back-to-school — in a nice way, not in an ‘I really hope I don’t cry in calculus this year’ way — than the Defender Burghley Horse Trials. Nearly always blessed with
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Ahead of the *official* course preview content yet to come from this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials, the team on the ground has put together an alternative “walk” around with four Team GB members who
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An exceptional field of horses and riders will contest Defender Burghley Horse Trials (5-8 September), with 76 pairs representing 10 nations entered for the prestigious CCI5* event. Among them are: Four past Defender Burghley winners
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The field bursts wide open as entries continue to flow in on the heels of recent prep events in the UK and Europe ahead of the 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials. At the time of
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We’re keeping a keen eye on Burghley entries as they come in for what promises to be an exciting fall season, even post-Olympics. In our latest update, a total of 23 horses and riders have
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