Badminton in 1986 - pics and courseplan - worth a look!

[jules89]

Just wrote this all out and I pressed the wrong button so you guys had BETTER appreciate this!

I have the Eventing mag from 1986 just before Badders, complete with the course pics etc

Also, the supposed 4'2 drop at Aldon - anyone glad this isn't there any more?

Right - the Course in 1986 -
1 Whitbread Barrels 3ft10
2 Tree Trunk 3ft 10
3 Pardubice Taxis Spruce-faced hedge, 3ft11, with ditch
4ABC Whitbread Chevrons Multiple combination of rails – 3ft6 - 3ft11
5 Zig-Zag Angled rails over ditch, 3ft6 - 3ft11
6,7 First Luckington Thorn hedge, 3ft11, Rils, 3ft11, or thorn hedge – 4ft3
Lane Crossing
8,9 Centre Walk Aintree Chair. ditch and spruce-faced hedge -4ft3. Bechers. Spruce faced hedge 4ft6 and ditch
10,11 2nd Luckington Lane Crossing Bank. Bank with sloping rails
12 Parallel Bars 3ft11 high, 5ft11 spread over stream
13AB Vicarage Vee Ditch and rails in ditch from 3ft6 – 3ft11
14 Stockholm Fence Beech tree, 3ft9 over ditch or parallel rails 3ft9 5ft spread
15 Irish Bank Rail 2ft6 infront of bank
16 Horsen’s Bridge Rails 2ft6 and spread 13ft
17 Whitbread Drays 3ft11
18,19,20 Lake Rails 3ft3
Jetty with rails 2ft9 or,
Upturned punt 3ft7
Boathouse 3ft 11
21 Normandy Bank Bank, rails, 3ft and drop
22,23 Ski jump Tree Trunk, 3ft6, at top of steep slope to 3ft-3ft11 rails
24AB HT Support Group Coffin Rails 3ft6, ditch, rails 3ft 11
25 Bullfinch Birch hedge in ditch
26,27 Quarry Feauenfeld Platform, 3ft10. Stonewall 3ft9
28 Cross Question Crossed rails, 3ft11 over ditch 9ft2
29 Huntsman’s Hangover Double bitch hedges, 4ft4 high 5ft11 spread
30 Windfall Fallen tree, 3ft 10
31 Lamb Creep Thatched roof, 3ft11
32 Whitbread Bar 3ft11

That looked better in my word doc. Sorry!

Anyway -

Water ditch

Chevrons

VV, Stockholm and Bridge

Lake and Ski Jump

Bullfinch and Huntsman's Hangover

Course Plan

Enjoy

 

[Chloe_GHE]

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29 Huntsman’s Hangover Double bitch hedges, 4ft4 high 5ft11

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This sounds like a particularly tricky fence!

I think horseden's bridge and the ski jump would give me the heebie jeebies!!!

 

[MegaBeast]

Thank you, such a contrast to today, nice big galloping fences in the main, nothing like so technical.

The whitbread chevrons look particularly interesting, could get stuck between elements two and three by the look of it.

 

[KatherineLouise]

I've got some old slides that my dad scanned in for me from the 70's- will try and upload them - some of the fences are amazing! x

 

[dixie]

Horseden's Bridge - OMG - why would anybody think about jumping a fence like that !

Interesting to see the different fences though and the dreaded Ginny Leng Ski Jump.

 

[ester]

thanks, appreciated!

 

[ChestnutMonty]

wow - awesome!!

I'm so excited about this years Badders already!!

 

[zefragile]

That's awesome, thanks!

Everyone needs to get that Badminton triumphs and tears book- it's got ace piccies of the event from 1949 to 1998

 

[moogrrr]

Totally agree - that fence looks awful!

Thank you so much for putting these up! It is great looking back at the events as they used to be!

 

[jumptoit]

Thanks for this - don't think I could watch if it were like that now!

 

[Bossanova]

I think it's wrong to say it's not so technical- there's lots of technical fences, it just doesnt have the skinnies which we get now and which seem the only way to seperate out the field without causing falls.....

I love the Aldon report- how wonderful to get such honest comments published, I cannot see that happening now!

 

[SmartieBean]

Wow, so glad i dont have to jump them!! What brave horses and jockeys

 

[3BayGeldings]

thanks for posting, i love looking at old pictures of competition. Have any SJ ones too?

xxx

 

[Eventerlad15]

Thanks Jules, interesting stuff!

And no, you are NOT an eventing geek!!

 

[jules89]

 

[kerilli]

thanks for posting, great to see them again. i think that was the year that both Lucinda Green and Ginny Leng got launched into orbit down the ski jump... and the end of Ginny and Murphy together.
tbh i preferred the course then to now... i'm sick to death of skinnies! drove into Belton today and the first FIVE fences i saw as i went up the drive beside the courses were: a skinny to a skinny, a skinny on its own, an upright to a skinny, and a skinny to an upright.

 

[doodles]

OMG I remember jumping that fence at Aldon.... horse took off miles out and I thought we were never going to land.... Forgotten how different eventing was back then *shows age*

 

[lizzieb]

Thanks Jules. It's really interesting to see how courses have changed over the years. OMG at the ski jump. You wouldn't catch me jumping anything like that!

 

[humph]

Oh wow, thank you for posting those - it brings back SUCH Huge memories seeing eventing mag from back then - got the goosepimples going!

 

[Shazzababs]

1986 was the first year I went to watch on the ridng club coach trip, at the tender age of 14. I've still got the programme somewhere.

I remember the ski jump causing chaos, and the size of the drop of that bridge thing.

In those days the fences always looked bigger and more impossing, not sure if they were, or I was just used to jumping so much smaller things myself.

 

[Joss]

I think most of those fences look horrific. How come anyone survived Ginny Leng's ski jump, it look like any horse would somersault the rails at the bottom.

But they didnt have the same rider fatalities in those days did they - WHY?