4 former winners head up the Defender Burghley Horse Trials entries for this 12 months’s tournament (30 August-3 September).
Piggy March, who took the identify closing 12 months on Vanir Kamira, returns to shield her crown. She is going to journey the 2021 Ecu crew gold and person silver medallist Brookfield Inocent, owned by means of Alison Swinburn and John and Chloe Perry.
New Zealand’s Tim Worth, a former winner right here on Ringwood Sky Boy, brings ahead his personal and the Giannamores’ Vitali, who completed 3rd at Burghley closing 12 months.
Pippa Funnell will get started on her personal and Marek Sebestak’s Majas Hope, who has two times been within the best 16 right here, as she makes an attempt to seize her 3rd Burghley win.
Oliver Townend, the winner right here in 2009 and 2017, has 4 horses indexed however will best be capable of get started on 3. His Burghley Horse Trials entries at this degree are: Ballaghmor Magnificence (owned by means of Karyn Shuter, Angela Hislop and Val Ryan), Swallow Springs (owned by means of Paul and Diana Ridgeon), Tregilder (owned by means of the Hazeldines and Mitchell Fox Staff) and Cooley Rosalent (owned by means of Paul Ridgeon). Ballaghmor Magnificence has up to now completed first, 2d and 3rd at Burghley.
Zara Tindall, a former Burghley runner-up, is slated to begin this 12 months on Gleadhill Area Stud’s Magnificence Affair.
The brand new Ecu champion, Ros Canter, will carry Kate James and Annie Makin’s Pencos Crown Jewel to Burghley. This mare completed eleventh right here closing 12 months.
Tom McEwen will get started a number of the Burghley favourites with Toledo De Kerser – owned by means of Fred and Penny Barker, Jane Resorts and Tom’s mom Ali – who makes his first Burghley get started since completing fourth right here in 2017.
Handiest 3 horse within the box have up to now gained at five-star – Toledo De Kerser (who has gained the French five-star at Pau Horse Trials), Ballaghmor Magnificence (double five-star winner at Burghley and Kentucky Horse Trials) and On Cue, who took the inaugural Maryland 5 Famous person in 2021 and who’s one in every of two rides right here for US competitor Boyd Martin.
Harry Meade is the opposite rider within the box, but even so Oliver, who has 4 horses a number of the Burghley Horse Trials entries and is prone to get started on 3. His hand of horses is composed of Jane Pricey and Charlotte Oppenheimer’s Away Cruising, Charlotte Opperman’s Cavalier Cruise, Tenareze (owned by means of David Bernstein, Sophie Caruth and Nigella Corridor) and Nigella Corridor and Alexandra Robinson’s Crimson Kite.
Kitty King, who took person silver finally week’s Europeans, does now not have a journey at Burghley, however she might be strolling Derek di Grazia’s cross-country route for Horse & Hound’s mag and on-line previews (revealed subsequent week).
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