Every year at Defender Burghley, I consider creating a drinking game out of asking riders what they think of the course. A shot for every time I hear the words “it’s big – it’s Burghley”,
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Big, bold, Burghley – all the usual buzz words are being bandied about as the riders mull over the test set by “absolute magician” Derek di Grazia for this year’s cross country. There’s a fair
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Every now and then, among the busy professionals and multi-Olympians, a rider comes through at an event like Defender Burghley who’s got the most relatable story of all. Meet Tom Strawson, the full-time property professional
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[To catch up on this morning’s action, click here!] It’s tight at the top of the leaderboard as we close out dressage at Defender Burghley, where three-time victor Oliver Townend once again finds himself in
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Tara Dixon’s 5* debut has been a long time coming. Eventing runs in her family: her mother, Karen Dixon MBE (née Straker), is a four-time Olympian who has jumped around some of the biggest tracks
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by EquiRatings 👨💻 (@equiratings) Eyes on EN for the full dressage report coming soon. Rest assured, Tilly is typing her fingers down to bloody stumps as we
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Halfway through a bustling eventing season, Valerie Pride has barely had a moment to breathe — let alone pause to reflect. The year kicked off, as it often does, under the hot Florida sun, where
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It’s a topic that plagues us all: we experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, even at the smallest levels of the sport, but the drug that is eventing keeps us coming
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When Alexander Tordoff was 15, he wrote in to Pony Magazine. “I am hoping to be an eventer when I grow up,” he wrote, submitting a photo of himself and his horse, Luigi, on cross
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Before the start of Friday’s morning dressage session at Defender Burghley, pockets of the media centre buzzed with chatter about what we might see before the lunch break. Yesterday’s competition, after all, had delivered a
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[To catch up on this morning’s action, head to our full lunch break report here.] Nobody can ever say that Piggy March swept into the Thursday dressage lead having simply hopped on the product of
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We are full swing into Defender Burghley, and we’re experimenting with a new “coffee break” style wrap-up of the day for those of you who want the bits and bobs to fill the gap between
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Joseph Murphy will be the first to tell you to hold your proverbial horses, that there are two phases left to come, after a good dressage performance. But to come in to Defender Burghley and
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New Zealand rider Samantha Lissington comes into this week’s Defender Burghley well-mounted with two horses coming off of great seasons to date, but each of her rides carries a slightly different role as a part
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You’d be forgiven if you’d glanced over the day one line-up for the Defender Burghley Horse Trials and thought to yourself that perhaps it wasn’t stacked with first-phase heavy hitters – but despite a flurry
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Tomorrow, we’ll finally see the first horse down centerline after months of anticipation of the first CCI5* of the fall season: Defender Burghley. We’ve got 51 starters on the final list after a handful of
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There’s always a unique kind of buzz and anticipation that comes before the first horse inspection at a CCI5*. That final hour before it begins feels like the hinterland of possibility: the nerves haven’t totally
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World number one Harry Meade will be the first rider to go at Defender Burghley 2025 (4-7 September) on his own and Mandy Gray’s Et Hop Du Matz – and the last, on Dinah and
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We’ve got a new addition to the Defender Burghley entry list ahead of today’s draw for running order. After initially being short-listed for the FEI Eventing European Championships for Great Britain, Oliver Townend and the
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The Defender Burghley entry list is among the most hotly anticipated entry rosters annually, and while this year we’ll see a mildly diminished field due to the timing of the FEI Eventing European Championships for
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One of the most anticipated weekends in the global eventing calendar will be here before you know it! Entries have opened for both the CCI5* and Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse Finals at the 2025
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Britain’s most prestigious young horse championships, the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse Final, will receive an increase in prize-money as the leading manufacturers of countryside clothing and boots celebrate 15 years of sponsorship. Britain’s most
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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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