The Badminton XC thread!

Is it just me or have they not fenced off the approach to the haycart very well? Riders sseem to be getting very close to spectators to get a straight line...
 
Just to add my random thought of Badminton, am I alone in not being keen on coloured breeches. I've always just preferred cream. *cracks open a bottle of pear cider* ohh and they are debating on how to further eventing.
 
sare_bear, i agree, parts of it are very soft imho. it is still very big with lots of questions, but i have NEVER seen The Lake so soft. if the central part was a skinny it'd be a slightly different picture i think. (what, me, wishing they'd put a skinny in!) if you think that years and years ago we had a huge upright bounce into the water there, this one really is nice by comparison!
nice one hh, i hope you realise your dream! i've been trying to breed a Badminton horse for ages...!
 
BBC i - only works if you've switched over to digital or have sky though but online this is working for me - http://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/live_video.html
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While I'm glad not to be watching from behind my hands and yelling at the TV about those so**ing mushrooms, this seems a bit dull.

It could have been more testing but still fair IMO.
 
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So can someone lend me a quad AND a dog, just to cover every angle.
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I'll pass on borrowing a child though, if it's all the same to you.

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Don't you have quads with you out hunting?

We do, Hen if very used to galloping alongside one
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and the dog wouldn't be an issue either, he would only tolerate for so long before sending it skywards with his hoof
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Agree about the child though
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Yes we do, will ask the terrierman if I can borrow it, and we have hound pups coming soon, I'm sure OH won't mind me "borrowing" them.
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Mind you, it's irrelevant seeing as they don't generally have quad bikes and cameras at BE100 events.
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BE100 my arse
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you've already been told you have a 4* horse, and a better jockey he'd be hard to find
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I'll come and chase you on a quad with a dog in tow to get you ready
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I'll get the OH on the back with a cardboard box painted black... you'll be fine!
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I have returned to the computer to see we have had more run outs and stops in the showjumping class. I am watching in Spain..... one way t further eventing perhaps is too have courses appropriate for the level perhaps.....just a thought.
 
oh dear, SB is going to be kicking herself. what a class mare that is, i'm so jealous.

bloody HELL, how forgiving is the exit to the Lake, Heidi Woodhead just rode that like a loony and still got away with it!
 
I do feel for course designers, they are terrified of making anything a bit too challenging. H&S immediately blames the course, and no one has the balls to say, the course is fine, just learn to ride it properly!
 
What has happened to the bounces into lakes and questions like that. If after the step it was a solid house like it used to be or an upright post and rails we would not see horses trying as hard as they are.
 
you will doubtless find them at pre novice and intro's now albeit smaller so people can get that 'Badminton' experinece.
Not that they have any technically difficult fences at badminton this year.......
 
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