A dazzling young mare delights, a dressage favourite disappoints and a waitlisted rider makes the top 10: catch up on all the action from day two at Badminton

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Oliver Townend after the dressage on Cooley Rosalent at Badminton Horse Trials dressage, they head the results
Oliver Townend and Cooley Rosalent top the leaderboard at Badminton 2025.
(Image credit: Peter Nixon)

The Mars Badminton Horse Trials dressage results are now complete, and we have a new leader to defend pole position on cross-country day.

The sun shone, the leaderboard had a shake-up and there was elation and disappointment in equal measure.

Martha Terry
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.