teapot
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Great to see such an entry list, after a few years of smaller fields.
Burghley 24 entries
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IrishMilo
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Great line up, I love Burghley weekend. Bumming around at home watching it is one of my yearly highlights!
HopOnTrot
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Am I misreading or are there duplications? I counted Harry Meade and Away Cruising 3 times!
TheMule
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It's a great field, must be one of the most competitive for a long time
teapot
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It's because he's got three entered and they won't have decided which is running when yet
splashgirl45
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Looking forward to sitting around watching Burghley TV for days 
daffy44
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Fantastic field! I cant wait 
LEC
Opinions are like bum holes, everyone has one.
3 ex racers in the line up
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
They’ve let people enter three in previous years. The draw seems to have Harry at the start, middle and end, so I presume he may ride all three.
It’s a fabulous field. I’m really looking forward to it. I’m going for the first time in several years. We’ve had so many sad times around Burghley over the last seven years (people very poorly in hospital or dying) that we’ve not been able to go. We used to go every year. My husband proposed to me there, so it’s a special place. I’m just praying for good Burghley sunshine.
It’s a fabulous field. I’m really looking forward to it. I’m going for the first time in several years. We’ve had so many sad times around Burghley over the last seven years (people very poorly in hospital or dying) that we’ve not been able to go. We used to go every year. My husband proposed to me there, so it’s a special place. I’m just praying for good Burghley sunshine.
Nicnac
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Gosh that really is a top field. Great to see so many new faces and Dan Jocelyn back as well as Jesse Campbell entered along with the stalwarts of int'l eventing.
myheartinahoofbeat
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Bring it on! I live close by but prefer to watch on Burghley TV.
Wow, Hurry and Tim have three rides. Not for the feint hearted! Interesting that Lordships Graffalo is running. The Olympics was probably just a prep run for Burghley
Wow, Hurry and Tim have three rides. Not for the feint hearted! Interesting that Lordships Graffalo is running. The Olympics was probably just a prep run for Burghley
bubsqueaks
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Yay not long now so pleased Ros & Walter are competing - cant wait
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
Me too. I was surprised, but I guess the close time zone and the close proximity of these Olympic Games makes it much less strenuous on the horses. Just a good 4* practice for a 5*!
lannerch
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Weather forecast so far looks like usual Burghley lovely weather
lannerch
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There was minimal entries right until last minute, I think about 20 but happily they all flooded in . Will be there 4 days so excited 
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
I know, we bought tickets early and then everyone seemed to enter the 4* last week and nobody had entered Burghley so I was a little anxious for a while.
teapot
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There are a couple of Burghley entries that have just had fantasric prep runs at Blair - Caroline Powell's on form!
Fjord
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Looking forward to it! Stewarding on the Saturday so shopping is Thursday and Friday.
RachelFerd
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Watched Caroline Powell riding a few at Blair and she was on stonking form - rode the XC like it was just a 90 track each time, so cool calm and collected
Jeni the dragon
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She had a cracking weekend! Great to see her with a lovely set of horses!
Teaselmeg
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Does anyone know why Yasmin is not running Banzai Du Loir, seemed the obvious run with not running at the Olympics ?
I little bit sad to see Roz running Walter so soon after the Olympics, but hope she does well.
I little bit sad to see Roz running Walter so soon after the Olympics, but hope she does well.
Parrotperson
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Why?
I was at Burgham 4* that weekend and Valmy beats and Cooley roselant both competed there and that's the same standard as the olympics. In fact I think there're more that were at Burgham that are at Burghley. Ros (and the other riders) know their horses. I don't think it's a problem.
JFTDWS
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I read the title as “24 entries for Burghley” and thought it was a very small field…
Evidently I still haven’t adjusted to being in 2024…
Evidently I still haven’t adjusted to being in 2024…
LEC
Opinions are like bum holes, everyone has one.
It was an 8 minute track on flat ground and a soft 4*.
A 4*S would be 6.5 mins so hardly any difference, in fact at a 4S you would sj on same day, the Olympics was split over 3 days.
They won’t run banzai over a tough track - he will end up somewhere softer like Pau or Maryland. I am not sure why as he has enough blood but Yasmin has only done the softer 5* in Luhmuhlen, Pau and Kentucky.
rhino
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There is at least one 4* horse from Blair last weekend that is going to Burghley. Olympics was weeks ago!
teapot
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The Blair 4*S winner no less!
Six weeks will have passed between Walter going xc at Versailles and then at Burghley
Caski
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Blimey! Harry Meade will never walk again after all those rides!Great to see such an entry list, after a few years of smaller fields.
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teapot
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Given the horse gets held at first trot ups (twice this year alone), you could argue they perhaps plan his events carefully
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shortstuff99
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Tom Rowland and Dreamliner sadly withdrawn.
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
I think it’s usual for 5* entered combination to do a good 4* four or five weeks before. And there was lonely a little distance or time change from Paris…