A record finishing score, a new star emerges and the defending champion gives her all: everything you need to know about what happened at Badminton today

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Badminton Horse Trials results: Laura Collett and London 52
Laura Collett and London 52 on their lap of honour after winning Badminton.
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Laura Collett scored a fabulous win to stay at the top of the Badminton Horse Trials results, at the event presented by Mars Equestrian. Riding her Olympic gold medallist London 52, Laura jumped a clear round in the final phase, adding just 0.4 of a time-fault for a record finishing score of 21.4 at the famous five-star.

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.