Although I am biased because I’m involved with the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, I don’t know anybody who wasn’t glad to get out of France after the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (WEG) and into the polite, efficient atmosphere of Britain’s autumn four-star.
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