Burghley 2018

lannerch said:
Let me second that totally agree also

I have to also say I cannot believe those going but not going on cross country day. That’s the whole point of the competition, it’s the best day ever and if your frightened of missing anything record it on red button Chanel while you are actually there with the atmosphere �� your not regret it and may the best rider win ��
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I always go to Badminton on Thursday/Friday when it's a bit quieter (I hate big crowds) to watch some of the dressage, do some shopping when there aren't massive queues everywhere, walk the cross country and get a feel for it all and scare myself silly at the size of the fences. I then watch it on the red button on Saturday to see how the fences ride. I think I get the most out of it this way. You see a lot more on TV but having seen the fences in the flesh, you understand the scale of the questions and the angles involved etc. There was one fence this year that I couldn't work out at all until I watched the first few jump it on TV (they made it look simple!) and I quite like that! I get why some would like the atmoshphere of XC day, but it's not for me.
 
There have been a few errors today!

I love the Thursday, it's quiet for shopping and I love being here at the start. I was the fourth car in today!

Saturday is fun and a good walk. I'm not remotely bothered about show jumping, apart from knowing the result.

It's very busy already though today.
 
Honey08 said:
I'm here. These judges are not being generous!
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Good. BE dressage is far too random in my opinion. I know of people getting scores of 12 and 14, generally at the lower levels. You'd be hard pushed to get the equivalent score at BD. I recently saw the score sheet of a well known Olympic rider who got a 9 for his medium walk with the comment a little tense and rushed, an 8 with could engage more etc etc.

Anyway, slightly off topic ! Sorry.
 
Unfortunately Oli and Harry didn't make the interviews for the 123 after dressage in The Celebrity Talk Area. Shame, would have been interesting! William FP's wife has done a good job standing in for Jonty.
 
Was there today. Was hot! Very, very pleased for Harry Meade! Had a lovely day, highly recommend the Pol Roger tent for some fizz, comfy beanbags, big screen tv and right next door to the collecting ring. Perfect! Controlled myself by not buying anything other than lunch! I’m a Badminton girl through and through and have only been to Burghley a few times but I was really impressed with the vibe there today. Very lovely and relaxed, I think we’ll do the whole lot next year rather than Badminton.....

Also, going to events isn’t the same when you have a 2 yr old to wrangle.
 
Was hot, compared to forecast!

with LizzieJ and Dark_horse :) we like the more relaxed atmosphere of Burghley as me and LJ have done a lot of badmintons. Loving the fact they have finally done radio!

We joined a fab free coursewalk with Imogen Murray inbetween a bit of shopping and some dressage watching.
 
Heading up tomorrow, staying over and then watching the XC on the Saturday. We're coming up from the midlands so travel up the day before, bring the dogs and get a good early start on the Saturday. We usually swap between Badminton and Burghley as badminton we can get to on the day. Will also tape it on the red button on Saturday so I can watch it all on the Sunday before the show jumping. Was very excited about finishing work today.
 
ester said:
Was hot, compared to forecast!

with LizzieJ and Dark_horse :) we like the more relaxed atmosphere of Burghley as me and LJ have done a lot of badmintons. Loving the fact they have finally done radio!

We joined a fab free coursewalk with Imogen Murray inbetween a bit of shopping and some dressage watching.
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No way.... So did we. She was really good 😲 Can't believe we missed the chance to meet.

Did you spot Fergus with his big blue backpack and jeans?

Fiona
 
LizzieJ said:
Was he reminding Dad about sweets?
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Quite possibly 😃😃 I think hubby had promised him a visit to the pick n mix sweet stand once we got back to the main arena.

We bought ourselves a coffee each and sat in a heap 😁

Definitely think we need a HHO lapel badge and a secret handshake or something...

Fiona
 
Haha, (it is no surprised that I don't remember what he was wearing but I do remember that I fancied some rock!)
I was stood next to you/him (on the left) at the rolex ;) light blue top with a navy baseball hat and sunglasses on.
 
The guided course walks sound good. We went round early today, and had much of the middle section of the course to ourselves. The handy route option diagrams posted on the trickier fences were a god send. It's all crystal clear now at the Maltings :eek:.

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I was organised this year and took my own pocket radio + headphones, which picked up radio Burghley fine. The whole event seems more compact, accessible and friendly cf Badminton somehow.
 
Fiona said:
Quite possibly ���� I think hubby had promised him a visit to the pick n mix sweet stand once we got back to the main arena.

We bought ourselves a coffee each and sat in a heap ��

Definitely think we need a HHO lapel badge and a secret handshake or something...

Fiona
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For badminton I made a flag for our camp, I still have it, no one else really liked it :D
 
I gave my pocket radio that I've used at badminton to my mum, who gave it back to me without any labelled buttons... so we just bought one!
 
Tiddlypom said:
The guided course walks sound good. We went round early today, and had much of the middle section of the course to ourselves. The handy route option diagrams posted on the trickier fences were a god send. It's all crystal clear now at the Maltings :eek:.

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I was organised this year and took my own pocket radio + headphones, which picked up radio Burghley fine. The whole event seems more compact, accessible and friendly cf Badminton somehow.
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We really enjoyed it. Quite a few riders seemed to be doing them this year. Obviously you still didn't get to walk on the course, but we looked at all the combinations and a few of the others, and it was really useful.

Those wee fence plans in conjunction with the horse and hound online article with all the fence pics were really useful too.

Fiona
 
There were a couple of other free/cheap ones but you needed to be a little more planned than we were and email ahead of time, we planned it last night :D.
We did one a couple of years ago with Tina Cook as my first one and it was really interesting and helpful.
 
Anyone got any bargains yet?

We've bought books from PC stand, Burghley polo shirts for F and D and I got back XC boots and Dublin cool it riding tights from townfields.

Big areas of tradestand still unvisited though.

I need a stockist of the gatehouse Rxc1 hat ... Any ideas? Gibsons maybe?

Fiona
 
I bought the cutest guinea pig picture :D
one belt and he's bringing me the black version tomorrow hopefully
we're raiding the 30% off wool duvets in the morning now we've come up with a plan

I think last year wychanger (down in the horse village area) had RXC1s as I tried one on.
 
Fiona said:
Quite possibly ���� I think hubby had promised him a visit to the pick n mix sweet stand once we got back to the main arena.

We bought ourselves a coffee each and sat in a heap ��

Definitely think we need a HHO lapel badge and a secret handshake or something...

Fiona
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Yes, as we got over the bridge he checked that Dad remembered, it made me laugh :)
 
We much prefer Burghley to Badminton. It does feel friendly and compact. Plus the weather is usually good for Burghley, whereas Badmindton can be lovely or like winter!

The weather caught me out today, it was much hotter than forecast. I went in a light jumper and boiled. My car had a frost warning light on,for the first time since winter, when I set off at 5.30am!
 
SpringArising said:
Where's the live stream? When I click on the Live Stream button on the website it just takes me to the Burleigh landing page on FB?
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It's livestreaming on the videos section of their FB page. Won't work for me but that's probably just this computer...
 
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