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The Badminton Horse Trials is a five-day event, one of only seven annual Concours Complet International (CCI) Five Star events as classified by the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). It takes place in May each year in the park of Badminton House , the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in South Gloucestershire , England .
2006 2nd Burghley Horse Trials on Moonfleet (in the lead until the final phase) [2] Oliver Townend (GBR): 2009 Badminton Horse Trials on Flint Curtis; 2009 Burghley Horse Trials on Carousel Quest; 2010 Kentucky Horse Trials on Ashdale Cruise Master and ODT Master Rose, (in 9th and 6th after dressage but fell cross country while riding Ashdale ...
[7] [8] Equestrian is the only Olympic sport in which animals compete with humans, and is one of four sports in which the genders compete against each other, [9] the others being some sailing divisions, mixed doubles division in tennis and the mixed doubles division of badminton.
Richard Dorian Walker (born August 16, 1950, in Johannesburg) is best known for being the youngest rider ever to win the Badminton Horse Trials. At 18 years and 247 days, the British-born rode his mount, Pasha, to victory at Badminton in 1969. [1] Although he tried to repeat his success, he never won the event again.
In total Funnell has won the Badminton Horse Trials three times: 2002, 2003 and 2005. She has won both the Blenheim venue and Windsor Horse Trials four times as well, the only rider yet to do so. With Funnell as rider, Primmore's Pride became the 1st horse to win all three major four star titles - Kentucky & Burghley in 2003 and Badminton in ...
William Fox-Pitt, here clearing the Cottesmore Leap on Idalgo in 2006, has the most wins at Burghley, with six.. Horse trials have been held at Burghley House since 1961 when its owner the 6th Marquess of Exeter, an Olympic gold medalist in athletics and IOC member, heard that a three-day event at Harewood House could no longer be held due to suspected foot and mouth disease.
Golden Willow was the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials.The then-five-year-old won the first year of the event, in 1949, with rider John Shedden.Today, horses must be a minimum of seven years old to compete in the difficult competition, and most horses that compete are no younger than 10.
In May 2018, she finished third at the Badminton Horse Trials on Allstar B. Canter won two golds at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, riding Allstar B. [ 5 ] She is the fifth British rider to become World Champion in Eventing , after Mary Gordon-Watson (1970), Lucinda Green (1982), Virginia Leng (1986), and Zara Phillips (2006).