There’s nothing we value more than consistency over two days of dressage, but the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials took our pleas to Eventing Jesus perhaps a little too literally, dishing out more of the same blustery,
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View this post on Instagram View from centerline. Doug Payne on Vandiver. A post shared by Margaret Pursell (@myaopursell) on Sep 5, 2019 at 7:43am PDT The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials are simply not
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The first day of Burghley dawned cool, crisp, and enormously competitive – but after 34 of the 67 combinations, debutantes Eliza Stoddart and Priorspark Opposition Free still lead the pack on their score of 28.7. But there were
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With day one of Land Rover Burghley dressage on the books, defending champion and current world no. 1 Tim Price already has two horses in the top 10 — Bango is tied for 2nd, and Xavier
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“It’s a wonderful moment – god, I’ve got so many people supporting me here,” says 26-year-old Eliza Stoddart, wiping the tears from her eyes in disbelief. You can’t blame her for being overcome with emotion –
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Welcome to dressage day one at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. Yesterday, we introduced you to the riders taking part in this year’s competition – today, we’re delving into the details of the 67 horses
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Trot-ups are a serious, stoic, and straight-laced affair, full of jolly good tweed and Very Important People making Very Important Decisions. They’re also a time for prizes to be awarded – Best-Dressed Lady, Best-Dressed Gent,
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The start of the 2019 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials dawned bright(ish) and blustery, as 67 horse and rider combinations came forward to present to the ground jury of Xavier Le Sauce (FRA), Nick Burton (GBR), and Christina Klingspor (SWE). Despite
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“How did we get heeeeeere?” warbled the lass from Paramore in that one song that made Twilight almost bearable. We might not have much experience with vampire lovers and magical games of baseball (???) but this
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Ain’t no rest for the weary. Now that the American Eventing Championships and the FEI Eventing European Championships are done and dusted it’s onto the next! Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, taking place this coming Thursday
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This year’s Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials field is one of the most compact we’ve seen in a long time, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in colour. Far from it, actually – it’s absolutely jam-packed
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Sure, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover between now and Land Rover Burghley, taking place Sept. 5-8: the European Championships and the American Eventing Championships will be dueling headlines this upcoming week, and
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The 2020 edition of Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials will mark Captain Mark Philip’s final course after some 30 years at the helm of the event’s cross country design. For 2021 forward, the baton will be
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Somehow, we’ve managed to fast-forward through 2019 and find ourselves on the cusp of yet another Burghley. How? How, I ask you?! Never mind – for all the end-of-season tidings it brings, we can’t help but
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Last week we snuck a peak at early entries for the 2019 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials and squealed a little upon seeing that six U.S. combinations had already entered ahead of the Aug. 2 closing date: Hannah Sue
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While entries don’t close until Aug. 2, the U.S. contingent has wasted no time in entering the 2019 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials taking place Sept. 5-8 in Stamford, England. We got a sneak preview of early entries received
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“We’re proud to have two – Andrea Baxter and Indy 500 – of our very own San Luis Obipso County residents doing so well in international competition on foreign soil,” says Sharon Jantzen, director of
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It’s been a week since the exciting finale of the 2018 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, but it’s not been far from my mind since its conclusion — after all, reporters, riders, grooms and supporters
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Hands up if you’re feeling the post-Burghley blues, in which real life seems to pale in comparison to fence-hopping, celeb-spotting, vitamin D-topping glorious Stamford
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When I was young I never thought I would ride. Then I got the bug when I started hunting in Ireland, and now I have progressed to the top level of eventing with some great equine partners. This week it was Sportsfield Othello
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It’s been such a busy weekend with Burghley, AEC and so much more happening around the global eventing nation, it feels like you need a whole day to catch up on all the coverage! Here’s
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As it turns out, you can put a price on success. Or two of them, actually, as long as those prices are actually Prices and those successes are actually the tangible culmination of a lifetime
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What is it like to ride around the biggest cross country course in the world at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials? Thanks to this helmet cam from Joseph Murphy, we can get a bird’s
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