Tim Value bookends the Defender Burghley Horse Trials draw for the occasion subsequent month (5-8 September).
The New Zealand rider is the pathfinder on the 2022 Maryland 5 Star winner Coup De Coeur Dudevin and likewise units off final on Vitali (quantity 83). The latter was the dressage chief, setting a brand new occasion file, final yr so having him as the ultimate horse to go will guarantee suspense till the tip of the primary part – and fairly probably cross-country day if he holds high spot after dressage once more. Tim additionally has Viscount Viktor in the midst of the draw at quantity 33.
Harry Meade is the opposite rider more likely to begin on three horses; he would be the second into the dressage enviornment and likewise the penultimate competitor to start out. He presently has 5 doable mounts within the combine – Cavalier Crystal, Superstition, Annaghmore Valoner, Et Hop Du Matz and Away Cruising – so must slim this all the way down to a trio of contenders.
Ros Canter is the favorite on Paris Olympic workforce gold medallist Lordships Graffalo and they’ll set off third final, as quantity 79. Ros can be quantity 5 – third to go, due to the best way numbering works for Harry’s double-entered horses – on Izilot DHI. Ros’s Paris team-mate Tom McEwen is quantity 47 on double five-star runner-up CHF Cooliser.
Surrey-based French rider Gaspard Maksud is the primary of the 25 debutants to compete, beginning as quantity eight within the Burghley Horse Trials draw on Kan-Do 2. Aaron Miller (quantity 10) is the primary British debutant to tackle the problem.
Caroline Powell wears quantity 51 on Badminton Horse Trials winner Greenacres Particular Cavalier, and the runners-up from the British spring five-star, Eire’s Lucy Latta and RCA Patron Saint sport quantity 21.
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