Badminton 1982

[viola]

Just found this video and I thought some of you may want to watch it

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4830798433323996010

 

[MissDeMeena]

Wow, really enjoyed that!! thanks!!!
I did however think that the size of the fences look alot smaller back then, and the standard of riding is alot better now, as is the schooling of the horses now a days!!

Great to watch tho!!!!!

 

[Alibear]

To me those fences look every bit as big as todays you can see their real height when the horses get up close.
Think the farmyard/fence complex with that big oxer in the middle could still cause problems today.

 

[MissDeMeena]

I did forget to say...
however Lucinda Green sticks out like a sore thumb, as she would today if she were competing at that level
(she did at Blair in the 3*, so not down too much of a level)

 

[Bedlam]

I LOVED it!! Especially the soundtrack - sounded like something from WW2 - and the commentary!

I agree that the jumps looked up to height tbh, but not as technical.

I was 14 in 1982 - I must have been there! It wasn't THAT long ago!!

 

[Rowreach]

OH has just watched that over my shoulder and pointed out all the horses that he was shoeing in 1982!

 

[MillbrookSong]

did you hear them say max height was 3ft 11!!! thats int height isnt it??

But awsome vid!

 

[JM07]

i was there...Richard Meade won on Speculator....

 

[Hattikins]

Wow that was 9 years before i entered the world!! Very different to nowadays! horses and riders are just as brave if not braver, and the fences are far more rustic and less sculptured and dressed!!

 

[NoCollection]

3ft 11 is 1m20, it is still the maximum height for Advanced and 4*. Some of those ditches and drops looked huge!

 

[viola]

QR
Glad you liked it

I personally thought the fences didn't look small but definitely more rustic, almost no advertising

and everything seemed so blended into the countryside.
Skii jump looked pretty raw!

 

[Ferdinase514]

Riding certainly not as slick as it is today.

The going sounds concrete in parts

 

[Ferdinase514]

ps... i was 3 in 1982

 

[CastleMouse]

That's brilliant to watch, thanks for sharing!

 

[ReadyTeddy]

what i mostly notice was the amount of fences that they wouldnt build today cos of safety issues, those trakehners, the unfinished bridge, the ditches without any rails to edge them....

 

[teapot]

wow, so much has changed but on the other hand, so little has changed if anyone gets what I mean

that's the first time I've ever seen Yogi B on a horse too

I wasn't born in 1982

 

[Orangehorse]

I was probably there! What is not apparent on the film is that a lot of those fences had an enormous great pit underneath, in front of or on the landing side, laughingly called a ditch.

The fences are less dressed than now and there are lots of "skinnies" and more corners and angles, but I don't think it was any easier to win then than now.

 

[lifeslemons]

The trakehners consist of a branch over a ditch