3 - 6 September 2026
The latest previews, interviews and reports from Defender Burghley.
All bar two of this year’s freshers made it through the finish flags at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials on a testing day of cross-country when many experienced favourites faulted or failed to complete.
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Derek di Grazia's cross-country course is proving jumpable — and the time gettable — but not by the first two starters.
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Bradeley Law, the long-term ride of Michael Owen, will bow out from top-level competition after Defender Burghley Horse Trials.
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Michael Jackson triumphed in the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse final for four-year-olds at Defender Burghley on his own exciting young prospect, Oscar, by the KWPN stallion Kitt SB out of Flair, by Quasimodo.
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With the dressage phase complete at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials, this year’s first-timers are over the first hurdle.
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