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Badminton 2025 cross-country times – when will the top 10 horses leave the start-box?

Martha Terry Martha Terry

    • Two days of dressage are now consigned to the scoreboard, and the stage is set for the Mars Badminton Horse Trials cross-country phase.

    Eric Winter’s track is 6,650m long, with 45 jumping efforts and an optimum time of 11min 40sec.

    At the end of the dressage phase, there are 80 competitors set to go forward to the cross-country.

    The first rider, Kirsty Chabert (Classic VI, 32nd) is due to start at 11.30am.

    Badminton Horse Trials cross-country times for the top 10

    11.35am: Oliver Townend (Ballaghmor Class), lying ninth.

    11.48am:Gemma Stevens (Chilli Knight), 10th

    1.16pm: Tom Woodward (Low Moor Lucky), sixth

    1.40pm: Tom McEwen (JL Dublin), second

    1.44pm: Yasmin Ingham (Rehy DJ), eighth

    1.56pm: Emily King (Valmy Biats), fifth

    2.24pm: Ros Canter (Lordships Graffalo), fourth

    4.12pm: Fiona Kashel (Creevagh Silver De Haar), seventh

    4.20pm: Oliver Townend (Cooley Rosalent), first

    4.24pm: Gemma Stevens (Jalapeno), third

    The final rider, Tim Price (Vitali, =16th) is scheduled to leave the start box at 4.48pm.

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    Martha Terry
    Martha Terry

    H&H features editor
    Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.
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