Five-star winner down to one ride after four more Badminton withdrawals

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Gemma Stevens and Chilli King jump a cross-country fence at Thoresby 2025.
Gemma Stevens and Chilli King at Thoresby 2025.
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One of Gemma Stevens’ rides is among four last-minute Mars Badminton Horse Trials withdrawals, as riders prepare for the first horse inspection this afternoon (6 May).

Gemma has withdrawn her second ride, the 11-year-old five-star debutant Chilli King, owned by Chris and Clare Mathias and Christopher and Lisa Stone. She will still start on the Stones’ Chilli Knight, with whom she won Bicton Horse Trials five-star in 2021.

Pippa Roome
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.