It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: that special, chaotic time in which team EN, plus a rogue chinchilla, dive deep, deep down into the FEI records, the personal anecdotes, the whims and weirdness
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And so the week begins at the 2023 Defender Burghley Horse Trials — and already, before the competition kicks off in earnest (and before anyone gets close to that beefy Derek di Grazia cross-country track),
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We’ve had another couple of withdrawals from the Defender Burghley entry list this morning as we look ahead to the official start of competition at this afternoon’s first horse inspection. One of those, Oliver Townend’s
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Today is the day! The 2023 Defender Burghley CCI5* is very nearly underway, and we’ll finally get our first peek at the horses and riders competing this week at today’s First Horse Inspection. You can
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Welcome to another five-star week and the first of the fall season! Just two more sleeps until the Defender Burghley Horse Trials kicks things off with the first horse inspection on Wednesday, so naturally we’re
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Defender Burghley Horse Trials (@lrbht_official) It’s Burghley Week! AEC in T-minus two days! Double-competition weeks are a fast-paced thrill for us behind the screens here at
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Reigning Defender Burghley Horse Trials champion Piggy March, who won the event’s 2022 renewal on Vanir Kamira, has announced she will not return to fight for her crown next week as intended with her Hartpury winner Brookfield Inocent,
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While most of the eyes that have been fixed on Burghley over the last few days will have found plenty to occupy them, with the reveal of the 2023 course and the release of the
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British superstar rider Ros Canter has won Badminton and the European Championships this year – can she top off an exceptional 2023 with victory at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials as well? Ros, fresh from
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I’m in an all-out Burghley mood today, which means I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit digging through videos from past years. One of my favorite videos is always a voiceover helmet cam,
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We’re driving across this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials course — myself and Lucy Elder of Horse and Hound in the back; Event Director Martyn Johnson at the wheel, joyfully, recklessly, but maintaining an air
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With just 10 days until the start of the Defender Burghley 5* event, the order of go has been announced, with the best of the best competing for the prestigious title. Great Britain’s Harry Meade
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Though he’s moved back home to Yorkshire recently to base his business closer to his family, for many years, eventer Phil Brown was based just next door to Burghley: so close, in fact, that he could
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I’m buzzing around on pony-mad cloud nine this afternoon, for one very simple reason: this morning, I got to make the long, sunny drive up to Burghley House to take a first look at the
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It’s nearly time to turn our sights to the penultimate CCI5* event of the season — hard to believe, but we’re already here! The Defender Burghley Horse Trials will take place August 31 – September
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Riding at the iconic (and, okay, let’s be real, absolutely terrifying) Defender Burghley Horse Trials is on the bucket-list for no shortage of us loopy eventing lot – but getting there is no mean feat. First,
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Let’s be honest, riding the Burghley course is a little beyond the abilities or even desires of most of us. But hacking around the course and admiring the impossibly big questions and the famed terrain
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Defender Burghley Horse Trials (31 August-3 September 2023) has appointed Horatio’s Garden as its official charity for this year. Horatio’s Garden, whose Main Avenue show garden won Best in Show and a much-coveted gold medal
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The first prize at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (31 August-3 September 2023) will be the richest in eventing at £110,000. Defender Burghley is the autumn highlight of the British equestrian calendar. It is one
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In the wake of a successful FEI World Championships of Eventing at Pratoni, Italy last year, all eyes are on which of the eligible venues worldwide could play host to the next iteration, set to
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World Equestrian Brands recently caught up with Cornelia Dorr, fresh off of her 10th place finish at Burghley, to talk about her 5* debut, her feelings throughout the competition, Daytona Beach 8 (her equine partner
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Emily Hamel (@hameleventing) Scrolling through Instagram over the weekend I came across this video of Emily Hamel and Corvett, a.k.a big-jumping “Barry” tackling the Leaf Pit,
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Breeding a quality event horse capable of winning (or placing competitively, or in some cases even finishing!) a modern five-star is a feat that requires skill, creativity, bravery, and a little bit of luck. In
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