David Evans returns as Blenheim Horse Trials cross-country course designer for a fifth year in 2022.
This year’s course features a new water complex at the top of the hill (fence 16: The Jockey Club Log and Splash), which follows a long gallop up from the water splash and Bentley Angled Brush at fence 15.
Blenheim Horse Trials has two cross-country courses – the longer CCI4*-L course, pictured below, and the short-format CCI4*-S course for eight- and nine-year-old horses.
The 2022 CCI4*-L course is 6,055m with an optimum time of 10 minutes 37 seconds.
Fence 18abcde: AW Jenkinson Lumber Yard (there are alternatives at this combination and not all letters were in place when H&H walked the course – this page will be updated later in the week)
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