Canter and Powell triumph in the Dubarry Burghley Young Event finals

This prestigious competition, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year, is designed to highlight the CCI5* horses of the future.

New Zealander Caroline promised that her winning mount, will “be back here in four years’ time.”

The bay mare, by KMS Rooney Van de Veeldbaile out of Ebony AS, was bred by Caroline’s partner Greg Kinsella’s mother, Gwen.

“We’ve had her from birth and she’s gorgeous,” said Caroline, who is riding High Time in the CCI5* at Burghley. “When I had a knee operation, she was the one I rode first as she is so well balanced. She’s a horse I’m excited about.”

WLS Cula Bula was 10th in the dressage, judged by Christina Klingspor and Angela Tucker, second in the jumping, judged by Andrew Heffernan and Nicky Roncoroni, fourth in "suitability and type", assessed by John Killingbeck, and fifth in the gallop, overseen by Australian Olympian Clayton Fredericks.

Kitty King took second place with the Hugo Syndicate’s Parc All The Hype, an Irish sport horse by Kilferagh High Society.

Dual Burghley winner Ros Canter, who really set Vanessa Fleming and Nick and Alex Moody’s Dutch-bred Reuben alight to lead the gallop section, was third overall.

Both Caroline Powell and three-times Burghley winner Oliver Townend had two horses in the top 10. Caroline's Rockefeller Scais was fourth with Emma Carmichael in the saddle for the gallop; Oliver, contesting this competition for the first time, was sixth on Very Cooley (ridden by Lucy Owen in the gallop) and eighth with Mystique Noir.

Ros Canter – Burghley CCI5* champion for the past two years - won the four-year-old Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse Final with Patrick Murray and Lauren Palmer’s Kilcorig Gotcha Talkin, by Tyson out of Gotcha Nema, bred by Catherine Jackson.

The pair topped the dressage section and were either second or third in the other phases.

Ros said: “He was only dropped off to me just over a week ago. He was produced in Ireland and won a young horse class there. They were bringing him over for this, and asked if he might be a horse I might ride in the future anyway, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to have a go here and see how we got on together.

“We were definitely getting to know each other today, but he was just super-easy with an amazing temperament.”

The top four were all Irish sport horses. Ireland Susie Berry, who rides John The Bull in the CCI5* this weekend, was second on Longfordpass El Quality. Carole Powell completed an excellent afternoon with third place on WLS Kingston and Oliver Townend was fourth on Stormbird.

As one of only six CCI5* competitions around the globe, Defender Burghley always attracts the very top athletes, and ranks alongside Wimbledon and The Masters as a sporting “major”. The event offers superb shopping opportunities, delicious food and drink, elegant hospitality options and lots to entertain children and less-horsey members of the family. HRH The Princess Royal is visiting Burghley – where she won the European Eventing Championships in 1971 – on Sunday, 6 September to present the prizes after the final showjumping, and in her role as President of Burghley’s supported charity for 2026, World Horse Welfare, and as President of the British Eventing Support Trust.

Every minute of the action from Defender Burghley, from the first horse inspection to the final trophy lift, as well as the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse Finals and the Main Arena Masterclasses, is broadcast on Burghley TV.

For the full timetable and to plan your visit to Defender Burghley visit 2026 Timetable.