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Badminton 2018 - Round-up

16/5/2018

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​The beginning of May saw our busiest and most exciting time of year, Badminton Horse Trials.  After a very challenging start to the 2018 eventing season with many cancellations it was great to be at the biggest and best 4* event in the world and also enjoy some bright sunshine.
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As always the Horse Trials Support Group had our members marquee just a stone’s throw from the main arena, offering members a great place to meet friends, watch the action on screens, enjoy good quality food and attend several events put on by the Committee. 
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197 members took up their Badminton passes this year which represents the majority of our membership – it was wonderful to greet so many of you in the marquee.
We hosted a number of events throughout the four days of the event which included:
  • Afternoon tea on the Thursday with a very interesting first day dressage review from Peter Storr, former British National Dressage Champion.
  • Informative cross country course walks on the Thursday and Saturday with Ginny Elliott, and Spencer Sturmey. We were honoured to have been joined by Lorna Clarke for the course walk on the Thursday. HTSG members were joined by some lucky British Eventing prize winners on the Saturday, along with a group of students from Haddon Training.​
  • Yogi Breisner, former World Class Performance Manager also took a group of members around the course and was welcomed in the marquee throughout the event.
  • On the Friday evening nearly 100 members and guests attended the cross country preview evening. The panel was made up of Ginny Elliot, Tina Cook and our two scholars, Laura Collett and Alex Bragg. We were delighted to welcome Eric Winter, Course Designer, to the marquee, and he provided a really interesting insight into his thoughts when designing the toughest cross country course in the world.
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  • On Saturday during our pre-cross country breakfast we were joined by the fascinating Diarm Byrne of EquiRatings who talked us through the stats from dressage and gave us some predictions for the cross country.
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  • Finally, on Sunday we conducted our raffle prize draw – there were some amazing prizes donated.  Many thanks to Dodson & Horrell, Holland Cooper, Fairfax & Favor, Timothy Foxx Clothing, KM Elite Products, Point Two Air Jackets, Burghley Horse Trials, Blenheim Palace Horse Trials, Barbury International Horse Trials, Mojowristbands.co.uk, HiHo Silver, Annabel Brocks, Sederholm, Pol Roger, British Eventing Official, English Tweed & Patchwork Co.
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Laura Collett with the many prizes from our raffle
We would like to thank our members and guests for their generous support at these events over the four days. ​​
Read how Scholar Alex Bragg faired at Badminton 2018
View photos taken by HTSG Committee Member Michael Rogers
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Chatsworth 2018, HTSG Scholar, Laura Collett

15/5/2018

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Last weekend our second training Scholar for 2018 Laura Collett headed to Chatsworth International Horse Trials to compete on three horses in the CIC3* - Dacapo, London 52 and top horse Mr Bass.

Laura and Mr Bass were competing in the first leg of the Event Rider Masters series.
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Laura and Mr Bass scored a personal best in the dressage and were leaders after the first phase on a score of 25.3. Laura was quick to directly thank the Horse Trials Support Group for the additional training her scholarship funding has allowed her to secure.
On Sunday Laura headed into the show jumping as overnight leader and last to go, but unfortunately had four faults with one fence down.  The show jumping proved tricky with only nine of the 39 competitors jumping clear and within the time.
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Heading into cross country everything was still to play for as at Chatsworth the time is incredibly influential. Laura and Mr Bass jumped a lovely clear round with just 6.4 time penalties to finish an excellent fourth place.
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Although Laura was a little disappointed to have four faults in the show jumping, the key thing about this run is that it was a really good preparation run for the 4* event at Luhmuhlen in just over four weeks time.
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Badminton 2018 - HTSG Scholar, Alex Bragg

10/5/2018

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Alex and the rest of Team Bragg Eventing set off to Badminton with high hopes for his two rides, Mrs Nuttall and Mr & Mrs Roe's Redpath Ransom and the huge Zagreb owned by Mrs Sally Ellicott.  The first trot up went without a hitch with Alex looking very smart courtesy of Timothy Foxx and Mackenzie & George - we feel he could have easily won the Hiho Silver sponsored Best Dressed competition.
Thursday morning was an early start as Alex was drawn to go fifth on Zagreb who did a great dressage test, looking relaxed and happy. 
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Photo © Sweet-Images Photography / Hiho Silver
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Redpath Ransom was a little tense with the atmosphere heightened as it always is on Friday afternoon. Alex said ‘Both my boys tried really hard on their dressage. Zagreb performed a consistent test for a competitive sub 30 score. Redpath Ransom’s nerves got the better of him and the tension prevented him from picking up good marks’.
We saw Alex again on Friday evening along with fellow scholar Laura Collett as they were presented with their Training Scholar awards at our Cross-Country Preview Evening. Their humour was well received by the crowd, who valued their insight into the course.
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Saturday dawned bright, we bumped into Alex walking the course and he was happy and looking forward to the day. Zagreb was early out on the course and stormed confidently round, unfortunately breaking a pin at Fence 18. It was great to see them through the finish with a smile.
Alex & Zargreb - Photos © MDR Photo
The great sadness of the afternoon was the catastrophic injury to Redpath Ransom on the flat towards the end of the course - until then he had given Alex an amazing ride around the course with Alex really getting the crowd cheering at the lake. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to the entire team.
Alex & Redpath Ransom - Photos © MDR Photo
Alex bravely presented Zagreb for the second horse inspection on Sunday morning. Simmone and Heather had Zagreb looking fantastic and he passed with no problems. The show jumping course caused many problems and was very tight for time. Zagreb jumped a great round for just 4 faults and the crowd appreciated Alex’s obvious pleasure with his horse.
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Overall, it was not the Badminton the team were hoping for but we are delighted to hear of new horses joining the team in the coming weeks and look forward to the yard visit to meet them all in June (keep an eye on Facebook and here on the website for more info).
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