Walk the BE100 Badminton Grassroots Championships cross-country course [PICS]
Have you always wondered how tough the BE100 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Grassroots Championships cross-country is? Take a look at the course pictures below.
Championship stats — how the class panned out
- 54 runners
- 8 finished on their dressage score
- 22 showjumping clears
- 16 collected faults at fence eight
- 11 did not complete the cross-country
- All bar one of the top 10 after the dressage fell foul of the cross-country
Most influential fence
This was fence eight (an ABC combination) the ASX Triple, comprising a rail-ditch-rail. The combination required a short, bouncy canter on the approach in order to give horses time to assess the ditch.
The winner
25-year-old Alice Lumley riding her own Foxwood Brown Sugar claimed this class. Alice, who is largely self-taught, lives and works on her family’s sheep farm in Co Durham bought the nine-year-old gelding when he was two. The pair moved up from 11th place after the dressage where they earnt a score of 31.5 to the top spot thanks to a double clear inside the time.
Fence 1 — BE First
Fence 2 — Quarry House
Fence 3 — Willis Chase Fence
Fence 4 — Shogun Step
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Fence 5 A/B — Shogun Step
Fence 6 — Four Star Wall
Fence 7 — Table
Fence 8 A/B/C — ASX Triple
Fence 9 — The Hollow
Fence 10 — Curved Brushes
Fence 11 — Tree Trunk
Fence 12A/B — Outlander Angles
Fence 13 — Danco Shooting Butt
Fence 14A/B — PHEV Silver Birches
Fence 15 — Brush Oxer
Fence 16A — World Horse Welfare Garden
Fence 16B — World Horse Welfare Garden
Fence 17ABC Wadworths at the Lake
Fence 17B — Wadworths at the Lake
Fence 18 — Mirage Wishing Wells
Fence 19 — The Benches
Fence 20A — Team GBR Corners
Fence 20B — Team GBR Corners
Fence 21 — Trakehner
Fence 22 — James’s Book
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