4 - 7 September 2025
The latest previews, interviews and reports from Defender Burghley.
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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Twelve first-timers will test their mettle at this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials, and pick of the bunch on the first day of competition is Emily King, daughter of former winner Mary King.
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Oliver Townend and Swallow Springs lit up the dressage arena in the closing stages of the first day of dressage at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials to take the lead on a score of 24.3.
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The Warwickshire Hunt triumphed in a hard-fought LeMieux Pony Club Team Jumping competition this afternoon. The quartet lowered just one rail between them in eight rounds of jumping, leaving them on a zero score — the only club to achieve this.
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European champion Ros Canter (GBR) leads the way at the end of the first session of dressage at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials on a score of 26.9 with Pencos Crown Jewel.
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