“If you’re looking for the small fence, you’re in wrong place,” Buck Davidson said yesterday of the cross country course here at Badminton Horse Trials.
The 2016 track is as proper as ever, a big, beefy gauntlet that will keep riders on their toes from fence #1 to 33. All the old Badminton standards like the Vicarage Vee and Huntsmans Close are on the menu…
Fence #21AB: The Vicarage Vee. Photo by Leslie Wylie.
… as well as some new additions to the course, most notably a new pond.
View a gallery of the fences here.
In this video Harry Meade walks us all the way around the course with Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes:
This will be Giuseppe Della Chiesa’s third year designing the course. He came out guns blazing in 2014, manifest in a notoriously difficult “survival of the fittest” sort of course, then backpedaled with a too-soft course in 2015.
The hope for 2016 is that he’ll have struck a balance between the two extremes. You can listen to an interview with Giuseppe explaining his approach to this year’s course here.
The first pair of the day, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend and Armada, leave the startbox at 11:30 a.m. local time.
Photo by Leslie Wylie.Go Eventing!
Best of luck to all of today’s competitors! Go Eventing.
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