Eventing in numbers: 16 cancelled sections, $6017 raised and 2 riders share dressage honours

Our series on the statistics of eventing continues, with a week that includes Badminton CCI4* and the Grassroots Championships

Dates: 4-10 May, 10th week of the 2015 season

The basics

Number of British Eventing (BE) fixtures: four (Grassroots Championships, Moreton Morrell (1), Badminton, Richmond (1))
Number of BE sections run this week: 26

Number of FEI sections run in Britain this week: one
Event with most sections: Moreton Morell — 12 sections
Number of BE sections run so far this year: 684
Number of combined BE and FEI sections run so far this year: 696
Number of BE fixtures run so far this year: 46

Best dressage scores

Grassroots Championships: 24.5, for Hollie Booth and Dramatic, who finished on that mark to win the BE90 final
Moreton Morrell: 20, for Nicholas Webb, who then had 8.8 time-faults with The Jackaroo to finish second in BE100 section F
Badminton: 37.8 (FEI scoring, equivalent of 25.2 in BE scoring), for Andrew Nicholson and Nereo, who eventually took sixth place with three showjumps down
Richmond: 20.8, for Alex Postolowsky (All Or Nothing II, fourth in novice section D after 10.4 time-faults across country) and Noah Book (Deo Volente III, the winner of novice section E after adding 4.8 cross-country time-penalties)

And also…

16: number of sections cancelled at Richmond on Saturday and Sunday due to wet weather
2: number of previous BE wins by BE100 grassroots champion Grey Finnsky, ridden by Alexandra Farrar-Fry
7: age of BE90 grassroots champion Dramatic. He triumphed with Hollie Booth
2: number of Badminton four-star runners with numbers in their names — Tom Tom Go 3 and Designer 10 — plus two with Roman numerals (Amazing VIII and Leonidas II) and one with a written out number (Out Of Africa Two)

2: number of winners at Moreton Morrell who had a time-fault showjumping
1: number of times this year so far two riders have shared honours for best dressage score at an event — this week at Richmond (see above)
3: number of riders in the top three in Richmond’s intermediate section C with Will in their names: winner Willa Newton and Wills Oakden, who was second and third

Further afield

6017: amount raised in dollars by the Stall-A-Rest fundraiser at Jersey Fresh in the USA — five riders were placed under stall arrest and people were invited to make donations to help them make bail so they could be freed

Full reports from Badminton and the Grassroots Championships in H&H this week, out 14 May 2015.

Pippa Roome

H&H 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.