Badminton Horse Trials wait checklist all accredited for 2024 tournament

All of the horses at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials wait checklist have now been accredited to start out within the pageant (8-12 Would possibly).

3 horses have been at the wait checklist when the development entries have been first revealed.

Two of the withdrawn horses are British-ridden – Ellfield Voyager (ridden through Alexander Whewall and owned through Sheila Rowe) and Halenza (owned and ridden through Heidi Coy) – and the 3rd is Commander VG, piloted through Lithuanian competitor Aistis Vitkauskas and owned through his rider and the Kloeve-Mogensens. Heidi would had been making her debut at Badminton.

The pairs who come off the Badminton Horse Trials wait checklist to switch them are Chris Stone’s Bicton Horse Trials one-off five-star winner Chilli Knight, ridden through Gemma Stevens, Neil Document’s DHI Babette Ok, ridden through Becky Heappey, and Jane Expensive and Charlotte Opperman’s Away Cruising, ridden through Harry Meade.

Badminton Horse Trials wait checklist: the way it works

Badminton accepts 85 entries every 12 months and wait-lists the remainder so as of FEI issues gained at top-level occasions during the last two years. Wait-listed pairs substitute those that withdraw till 2pm at the Sunday earlier than the development.

Even if Away Cruising had essentially the most FEI issues of the wait-listed horses, he was once in fact the final of the trio to be accredited into the primary get started checklist as a result of Harry Meade has two different entries and riders are handiest accredited a 3rd horse as soon as the entire different wait-listed entries had been accredited.

If Harry begins on Away Cruising, Crimson Kite and Cavalier Crystal, it’s going to be the primary time in some years {that a} rider has piloted 3 horses at Badminton, as this has now not been allowed at fresh runnings of the development.

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