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

First fence on the Badminton horse trials cross-country course: times now out
The first fence on the. Badminton 2025 cross-country, the Spillers Starter.
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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.

Martha Terry
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.