Lots of old Badminton pics - from the 1960's?

[KatherineLouise]

My dad hunted me out some old Badminton slides from the 60's sometime - one of the riders jumping is my aunt, but I'd love to know if anyone knows who any of the other riders are...

(this should probably be in the PG but thought it might be more of interest in here)

Hope you like them. Kat

 

[connie1288]

wow thank you for sharing!!

 

[wizoz]

3rd pic from top looks like Bruce Davidson

 

[dsophiea]

wow there fab! thanks for sharing

 

[worMy]

awsome pics!

 

[clairel]

Wow! They are brill!
No idea who the riders are but some of those fences :O

 

[wizoz]

And number 63, well, you can't not know those knees! Looks like Toddy.

Great pics, thanks for putting them up

 

[kerilli]

ooh, fab pics, thanks! I don't think they're as far back as the 60s, though, could be wrong. look like early 80s to me. I think the first time Toddy did Badders was 1983 on Southern Comfort.
i think i can see Richard Meade (pic 3?), Captain Mark Phillipps (pic2?), possibly Princess Anne, Toddy (pic12), possibly David Green.

 

[only_me]

The size of that bounce!!

Toddy looks perfect in the position!!

 

[KatherineLouise]

Thanks, could possibly be 80's - mum and dad have been every year and they were just a random album of slides so it was dad's guess - thought someone could tell me

Kat

 

[silverstar]

Is it me or are those fences bigger than they are now??

 

[CastleMouse]

Brilliant photos - Thanks for sharing

 

[kerilli]

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Is it me or are those fences bigger than they are now??

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hahaha some might be!
when they are spindlier timber, but the same dimensions, they look bigger sometimes. that wooden bar trakhener looks vile, and the bounce is biiig.
certainly there are fences there that would test the best nowadays.
oh, sorry, no, back then because there were no skinnies everything was really easy and everyone went clear all the time, obviously they had to bring skinnies in to make it harder because everyone was finding it easy peasy....!
*removes tongue from cheek*

 

[MegaBeast]

LOL How true, wonder how many riders would turn pale green if presented with a Badminton course like that nowadays?!

IMO that's part of the problem, to jump fences like those you had to be one hundred percent committed and not go in half heartedly and hope, you really had to attack

 

[MandyMoo]

fab pics

some of those fences look HUGE!!! especially that trakhener and the bounce??!! plus that steep bank after the log looks very steep...

sorry but i dont know any riders there...and i dont think those photos are from 60's though....probs more 80's...because they are in colour...and horse tack etc doesnt look old enough to be 60's...

thanks for sharing them though! fab

xx

 

[destiny11]

Great pics, some really scary fences!

 

[kerilli]

actually, i think i can pinpoint the year, i think it was 1986 or 87 (did it run in 87? no record on BE of that year, oddly), it was the year before the ski slope with upright rails at the bottom where Ginny fell off Murphy and LG fell off her grey, which was 1988 iirc.
i'm sure someone will correct me though!

 

[Goya]

Wasn't that the trakhener which someone once went underneath and was given a clear? I believe a rule was changed after that.

 

[kateD]

great pics! 3rd one down looks like Mike Tucker and I think the lady with the blue hat cover is Jane Holderness Roddams (Sp?) Now those look like proper Badminton jumps much more fun to watch!!

 

[jumptoit]

Fab pics - thanks very much for posting them

 

[foxhunter19205]

Is the horse in 1 and 5 (no 7) Gamble? I think pic 3 is Mike Tucker on General Bugle (or could be Milton General).

 

[glamourpuss]

I agree with it being the 80's (none of them of my mum though so certainly couldn't give you the year!) It made me smile as one of them had its tail taped up....I remember that 'trend' well

Fantastic pictures though. Those fences were so difficult, makes a little bit of a mockery of the badminton course just gone....particularly when you consider the 2 roads and tracks and the steeplechase course the horses had tackled before even stepping foot on that course.

Look as well alll of their saddles are staying in place and they don't have a 5 point breastplate on.....amazing!

 

[teapot]

Could you imagine if Hugh Thomas unveiled Badminton's 2010 course looking like that? Now there's a thought...

Fantastic pics, thanks for sharing

 

[Galupy]

QR: There's a brilliant 60th anniversary video on the Badminton website that has a lot of older footage too:

http://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/latest_news/2009_video/60th_anniversary_video.aspx

Thanks for posting the pics. I went to watch most years in the 80's - memories!

 

[Festive_Felicitations]

I think it would be brilliant! And would take some serious courage on behalf of Hugh Thomas. (Here's to hoping he does...)
And it would certainly very interesting to see how everyone coped with it!

 

[Twinkletoes]

Wow - thank you for posting! Is that Princess Anne? What a course, that bounce is seriously challenging.

 

[Hels_Bels]

awesome!

thanx for posting

 

[Weezy]

No way is that '88, I am sure of it - look at the crowd and the cars, etc - early 80s at the most IMO

 

[dieseldog]

It didn't run one year as it got rained off. The next year they bought it forward by 2 weeks to get better weather, and now they have put it back a week again. Lets hope global warminog doesn't let us down.

In the last pic the car is a V reg - 1979, so it is at least that.

Fab pics

 

[coedcae]

It was rained off in 1987. But agree those pictures would be early eighties. There is a picture near the end with a car with an old old style number plate with a V at the end which places it new in 1979.
Picture 2 and 15 is definitely captain mark phillips, the horse could well be Lincoln, who he won Badminton on in 1981. So I'm guessing it was 1981

Thanks for sharing those, its lovely to see all the old fences, its just how I used to remember it