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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We’re just a few weeks out from the next CCI5* of the year, the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (September 5-8), and we’ve got a very early look at the entries that have come in so
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Burghley's Olympic History with Carl Hester & Andrew Hoy Burghley Horse Trials and Burghley House have many Olympic connections, but one that is especially significant this year. Exactly a century ago, David, Lord Burghley —
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Defender Burghley’s brilliant main-arena Masterclasses are one of the major highlights of the event and 2024 features our most star-studded line-up yet. Dressage maestro Carl Hester, who is expected to be competing at his seventh
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As the sun sets for another year – ok, six months — on the UK eventing season, riders up and down the country will finally have a chance to catch their breath and
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The Defender Burghley Horse Trials are of course a very popular bucket list event for most eventing fans. If you have yet to make the pilgrimage to Britain’s premier fall five star then post-event vlogs
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One of the most exciting eventing days of the year has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep reliving the action over and over! Our friends over at Horse & Hound have
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Though their weekend might have ended with a touch of disappointment when several rails down precluded a win, Tim Price and Vitali certainly enjoyed a good enough day in the office on Saturday at Burghley,
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) Click here if your browser does not display the embedded video above. If you spotted Boyd Martin wearing the Jockey Cam
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When just one horse-and-rider pair jumped clear in the morning session of showjumping at Defender Burghley today — that was Harry Meade and Away Cruising, for what it’s worth — we knew that nothing would
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It’s been a morning of two halves here at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials. We woke up, bright-ish and sort of bushy-tailed, to discover news of five overnight withdrawals, thinning the field to 32 going
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In classic Burghley fashion, cross-country day has been a day of major changes, colossal climbs — and no shortage of surprises. Just four of our top ten after dressage remain in the hunt after cross-country,
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Everyone’s eaten their vegetables over the last two days, and now it’s time for the meat of the week: it’s cross-country day at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials! Let’s take a look at what’s to
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It’s time for some Burghley cross country action! I hopped off a plane home from AEC at about midnight last night, so I can’t really speak to the amount of brain cells I’m in possession
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After a historic first phase which saw overnight leaders Tim Price and Vitali for New Zealand smash the sub-20 barrier and set a new Burghley record, posting the best non-championship 5* dressage score since records
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TILLY BERENDT Winner: For me, it’s Tom McEwen and Toledo de Kerser, through and through, and I am so sorry for jinxing them if it doesn’t pan out this weekend. This pair just deserve a British five-star
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There’s taking the first-phase at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, and then there’s what Tim Price pulled off today: not just a decisive leap into the top spot with Tokyo partner Vitali (Contender – Noble Lady, by Heraldik), but
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Though nobody’s been able to catch the leading score of 24.2, set yesterday afternoon by Oliver Townend and Swallow Springs, this morning at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, we’ve seen some seriously good efforts to get close —
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) What a day of dressage we had yesterday at Defender Burghley! A leaderboard change after lunch, an American charge,
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That’s a wrap on day one at the 2023 Defender Burghley Horse Trials, and while some things stayed the same — those hard-to-please judges, for one thing — one important thing did change: our leader.
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Though Britain’s Alex Bragg didn’t quite sneak into the upper echelons of this morning’s dressage leaderboard at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, he was still delighted with 13-year-old Quindiva (Quintender 2 – High Roller) as she began
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We’ve seen a neat little package of fifteen horses and riders up to the lunch break today at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials — and already, some of the entry list’s brightest stars are making
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) Here they are, Burghley’s Class of 2023, looking keen and ready to put all that homework to the test.
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