You are here: Home / Articles / Competition News / Eventing
Strong Badminton draw for Zara Phillips
19 April, 2007
World and European champion event rider Zara Phillips has a strong draw for her first Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, where she will start as number 62.
There are currently 96 horses on the start list, which, depending on withdrawals, means Zara will do her dressage on Friday morning.
Historically, marking tends to be higher on the second day, and she will also have the advantage of seeing a number of combinations tackle the cross-country on Saturday before taking her turn.
But Badminton director Hugh Thomas has predicted the World Champion will not have a walkover. He said: "The entries promise a classic Badminton. Zara will have her work cut out to win it."
Zara's World Equestrian Games teammate Daisy Dick will be the first rider into the dressage arena on Thursday — and the first to tackle Hugh's track on Saturday. She rides the imposing grey Hope Street, 16th last year, as the pathfinder, with her WEG silver medallist Spring Along coming near the end of the field.
Read about the first-timers at Badminton and what Lucinda Green thinks of the course in next Thursday's Horse & Hound (26 April).
For the full drawn order visit www.badminton-horse.co.uk
Visit the British Eventing website
View event horses for sale
Related articles:
- Zara Phillips gets an early bath in fall at Tattersalls World Cup qualifier
- Celebrating success at Badminton Horse Trials 2009
- Zara Phillips, British event rider
- Burghley Horse Trials announces shorter cross-country course
- Charlie Hutton's blog: Badminton demo and a hangover
- Oliver Townend wins Badminton Horse Trials on Flint Curtis
- Dee Kennedy's Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sunday's written summary
- Dee Kennedy's Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sunday
- Badminton Horse Trials Sunday blog: it’s all relative
- Three horses ruled out of Badminton Horse Trials at final trot-up
Subscribe to Horse & Hound and Save
Enjoy all the latest equestrian news and competition reports delivered straight to your door every week.
Click here to subscribe now