Badminton prizes: more accolades for Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo plus best mare, best local rider and more
The dust is starting to settle and it’s time for us to catch up with all the prize winners from the week after a fantastic Mars Badminton Horse Trials, dominated by record-breakers Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo.
Who was the best mare? The best Brit completing for the first time? The best local rider? Read on to find out.
Badminton Horse Trials prize winners 2026
Ros and Lordships Graffalo, and their connections, took home a glut of prizes…
The Challenge Badminton Horse Trials Trophy to the winning owners: Michele and Archie Saul for Lordships Graffalo
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Mars Equestrian Yeti Cool Box to the winning rider: Ros Canter
Butler Challenge Bowl, with replica for the highest-placed British rider: Ros Canter
Mars Equestrian and Spillers prize – £1,000 – plus Mark Holliday Memorial Trophy to the groom of winner: Sarah Charnley
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Breeder of the winner: Lordships Stud and Pennie Wallace
Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain for the owner of best horse sired by a SHB(GB) graded stallion or premium stallion, provided it is in the top 12: Michele and Archie Saul for Lordships Graffalo (by Grafenstolz)
Meanwhile the rest of the top three were also treated to a replica of the trophy.
Replica of the trophy to the top three riders and the winning owner: Michele and Archie Saul, Ros Canter, Tim Price and Harry Meade
Other Badminton Horse Trials prize winners
And here’s where the rest of the awards went…
Worshipful Company of Saddlers £1,000 saddlery voucher to the best-placed under-25 rider who has not previously won a Company prize in the calendar year: Tom Bird riding Cowling Hot Gossip
Silver Jubilee Plate to the most successful rider on a horse owned by the rider alone, or in conjunction with immediate family: Sam Watson for Ballyneety Rocketman, 20th
Laurence Rook Trophy for the best British rider who has not previously completed Badminton: Holly Richardson riding Ballyneety Silver Service, 27th
Glentrool Trophy for the horse and rider who have made greatest improvement on their dressage placing: Tayla Mason and Centennial, up from 40th to sixth
Frank Weldon Memorial Trophy for the rider of the youngest British-owned and ridden horse in top 12: Tom Jackson for United 36, fourth
Cotswold Life Trophy to the best British rider who is not entitled to wear the adult Union Jack badge and whose permanent address is in the county of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire or Somerset: Aaron Miller, who finished 11th on Friendship VDL
The William Miflin Memorial Trophy to the rider of the horse with no cross-country jumping penalties and closest to optimum time: Sarah Bullimore with Corimiro, who finished one second inside the time and ended up 10th
Farriers’ Prize – plaque to the owner and farrier of the best shod horse: Jim Bendon for Tom Bird, Helen Kerry and Fran Bird’s Cowling Hot Gossip
Stud Voucher £500 to the owner of the highest-placed British-owned mare: Stephen and Dinah Posford and their daughter Jules Carter for Annaghmore Valoner, third with Harry Meade
Embryo Transfer or OPU (0vum pick-up) session to the highest-placed British-bred or domiciled mare, courtesy of Tomlinson Equine: Annaghmore Valoner
David Beaufort Memorial Trophy to the person who has contributed to the running of the horse trials over many years: Caroline Bromley Gardener, who has done the cross-country fence illustrations at Badminton since 1968
Armada Dishes (for five Badminton completions, presented a year after the fifth completion): Sarah Ennis, Georgie Goss, Harry Meade, Tom Rowland (pictured below on Dreamliner at this year’s event), Joseph Murphy
Pictures of Badminton Horse Trials prize winners by Peter Nixon and Nico Morgan Media
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