For many people, to tackle the BE90 grassroots championships cross-country course is a lifelong dream, the culmination of years of work – in many cases, combining a non-horsey job and eventing.
What is the course like if you make it to Mars Badminton Horse Trials for the Voltaire Design Grassroots Championships? Find out by looking through our photos. The track is designed by James Willis and the optimum time is 6min 36sec.
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Fence 4b
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Fence 5: Wiltshire Brewers’ Drays
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Fence 6ab: British Equestrian Federation Lodges
Fence 6a – the direct route is the corner of the house on the left and the slower route is the spread part of the house straight ahead
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Fence 6b direct route
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Fence 6b slower route
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Fences 7 and 8ab: Voltaire Design Saddle & Lake
Fence 7
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Fence 8a – the grassroots fence is on the right and the back of the five-star fence on the left
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Fence 8a side view
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Fence 8b
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Fence 9: Bedmax Brush Roll
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Fence 10: MIM Oxer
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Fence 11ab: Bloomfields Horseboxes Gates
Fence 11a
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Fence 11b
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Fence 12: Equireel Corner Brush
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Fence 13: KBIS Broken Bridge
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Side view
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Fences 14ab and 15: Spillers Brushes & Log
Fence 14a
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Fence 14b
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Fence 15
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Fence 16: World Horse Welfare Ditch & Brush
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Fence 17ab: Lightsource bp Feeders
Fence 17a
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Fence 17b
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Fence 18ab: Cross Country App Rail & Brush
Fence 18a
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Fence 18b
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Fence 19: Voltaire Design Trakehner
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Fence 20: Mars Equestrian Wall
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Fence 21ab: Retraining of Racehorses Tree Trunk
Fence 21a
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Fence 21b
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Fence 22: Voltaire Design Horseshoe
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