Fancy giving the BE90 Mitsubishi Cup a go next year? Here are the cross-country fences that caused problems in 2016

The Mitsubishi Motors Cup held at Badminton Horse Trials immediately before the prestigious four-star event is the pinnacle of the lower levels of eventing in Britain.

This year, the BE90 championship was won by Sophie Walker from Shropshire riding her own 10-year-old Rhapsody RFW. The combination won on their impressive dressage mark of 24.8 penalties. Second place went to Jessie Vanassche from the Isle of Wight riding Da Vinci II who finished on a score of 25.3. Third place was occupied by Emily Taggart riding Solo XII, who finished on 25.4 penalties due to getting 2.8 too-fast time-penalties on the cross-country course.

The course caused problems at a number of different fences. In total 77% of cross-country starters completed the cross-country course with no jumping penalties.

Here are pictures of the fences riders faced on the cross-country with a fence-be-fence breakdown of where problems occurred. The championship course was 3100m in length with an optimum time of 6 minutes 57 seconds.

Start box

Fence 1: BE Flower Box
0 faulters

Fence 2: Huntsmans Roll Top
1 refusal

Fence 3ab: Park Logs
0 faulters

Fence 4: ASX Cross Question
0 faulters

Fence 5ab: Wadworths at The Lake
8 refusals

5a alternative

Fence 6ab: World Horse Welfare Garden Fence
4 refusals

Fence 7: Woodhouse Table
0 faulters

Fence 8: Danco Shooting Butt
2 refusals

Fence 9ab: Devoucoux Brushes
7 refusals

Alternative 9a

Alternative 9b

Fence 10: Spillers Horse Feeds Beam
0 faulters

Fence 11: PHEV Brush
0 faulters

Fence 12, 13 and 14: Irish Horse Gateway Combination
Fence 12: 0 faulters
Fence 13: 3 refusals
Fence 14: 5 refusals and 1 fall

14 alternative

Fence 15abc: Shogun Hollow
3 refusals
1 fall

Fence 16: CrossCountry App House (fastest route is to jump as a corner on the left of this fence)
2 refusals

Fence 17ab: Four-Star Wall
5 refusals

Fence 18ab: Mirage Step
4 refusals

Fence 19: Outlander Wagon
1 refusal

Fence 20ab: Careers in Racing Quarry (b is roll-top at top of bank)
0 faulters

Fence 21: James’ Book
1 refusal

Read the full Mitsubishi Motors Cup report in Horse & Hound magazine (12 May 2016).

Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.