It’s a Game Changer for Grace
With the dressage phase complete at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, this year’s first-timers are over the first hurdle.
Read More4 - 7 September 2025
The latest previews, interviews and reports from Defender Burghley.
With the dressage phase complete at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, this year’s first-timers are over the first hurdle.
Read MoreTim Price and Vitali lit up the arena after today’s lunch break and produced the best-ever dressage score seen at Defender Burghley of 18.7 to take the lead going into tomorrow’s cross-country phase.
Read MoreRos Canter and Cooley Cloverland (Cavalier Land x Clover Hill), went one better than their second place 12 months ago when they took top spot in the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse final for five-year-olds at Defender Burghley.
Read MoreThe top two at this year’s Defender Burghley remain unchanged after Friday morning’s session of dressage, but Pippa Funnell slots in to third.
Judging took place yesterday for the ‘best tradestands’, with prizes awarded in three categories; best Pavilion stand, best Village stand and best Food stand. Ringing the changes this year, an anonymous expert decided the winners.
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