Walk the cross-country course at Burghley *PICTURES*

This year’s Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (3-6 September) promises to be as challenging as ever for competitors.

Designed by Captain Mark Phillips and built by Philip Herbert and his team, this year’s course runs in the opposite direction to usual.

We take a look at what the course has in store for the horses and riders who will tackle it on Saturday 5 September.

The provisional total length of the course is 6,370m with a provisional optimum time of 11 minutes 10 secs.

Fence 1: Olympic Horseshoe

Fence 2: Lambert’s Sofa

Fence 3: Picnic Table


Fence 4ab: Lion Bridge

View over 4a

Fence 4b

Fence 5ab: Anniversary Splash “In”

Fence 5b

Fence 6ab, 7: Anniversary Splash “Out” — riders have the option of a step up bounce on the right, bounce of hedges on the left

Alternative to fence 7 — only possible to jump if riders stop at the direct fence 7

Fence 8: Slate Mine

Fence 8: side view

Fence 9, 10: Capability’s Cutting — riders have the option of jumping either the left or right-handed option direct.

Left:

View over right-handed fence 9 to right-handed fence 10


Alternative fence 10

Fence 11: Rolex Grand Slam Viaduct

Fence 12: Winners’ Avenue

Side view of fence 12

Fence 13ab: Cottesmore Leap

Side view of 13a with 13b in the background

Alternative 13a
Fence 13b with alternative 13b in background

Course photos continue below.

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Fence 14abc: Land Rover Dairy Farm


View of 14bc landing

Alternative 14b

Alternative 14c

Fence 15abc: Rolex Combination — direct 15a with b in the background

Alternative 15a — ditch bounce to rail

Alternative 15c

Fence 16: Malting’s 360

Fence 17ab: Malting’s 360

View from 17a to 17b

Fence 18: Malting’s 360

Side view of fence 18

Fence 19: Captain’s Log

Fence 20abcd, 21: Land Rover Trout Hatchery

View from 20a to 20b

Fence 20b with view to fence 20 c and d

View from fence 20d to 21

Alternative fence 20d

Fence 21 with alternative in background

Fence 22ab: Herbert’s Hollow

View from fence 22a to b

Fence 23: Thomson’s Wall

Fence 24ab: Discovery Valley

View from fence 24a to b

Alternative fence 24a

Fence 25: Elephant Trap

Fence 26ab, 27: Leaf Pit

View from fence 26a to b to 27

Fence 27

Fence 28: Discovery Valley

Fence 29abc: Up and Under

Fence 29b

Fence 29c

Fence 30: Flower Frame

Fence 31: Land Rover Finale

You can keep up-to-date with all the action from Burghley with H&H Live every day this week on horseandhound.co.uk.

Don’t miss H&H’s Burghley preview, including a full form guide and a scorecard to fill in for every rider, on sale now (Thursday 27 August 2015), and you can read the full report in next week’s magazine (Thursday 10 September 2015).

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.