Burghley Horse Trials first trot-up – three horses held and one withdrawn

Three horses had been despatched to the holding field and a kind of was then withdrawn on the Defender Burghley Horse Trials first trot-up this afternoon (4 September).

Tom Crisp didn’t deliver again Liberty And Glory, owned by his spouse Sophie and her mother and father Patricia and Robin Balfour, after the bottom jury despatched her to the holding field on first inspection. This pair completed ninth at Burghley in 2022 and 14th right here final yr.

The opposite two horses who had been held each handed on re-inspection. They had been Swiss rider Nadja Minder’s experience Toblerone (owned by Nicole Basieux) and Wakita 54, owned and ridden by US competitor Andrew McConnon. Nadja, the Swiss alternate on the Paris Olympics with this horse, has based mostly herself with Piggy March – winner right here in 2022 with Vanir Kamira – for this later a part of the season and her first tilt at Burghley.

Sixty-seven horses got here earlier than the bottom jury, consisting of president Christina Klingspor of Sweden, plus Britain’s Nick Burton and the USA’s Robert Stevenson. There’ll subsequently be 66 starters within the dressage, following the withdrawal of Liberty And Glory.

Two Irish pairs had been among the many late withdrawals earlier than the Burghley Horse Trials first trot-up. Joseph Murphy didn’t come ahead with Calmaro, owned by Claire and Charlie Mayne and Annette O’Callaghan and nor did the Badminton Horse Trials runners-up Lucy Latta and RCA Patron Saint, owned by Alison, David and Leslie Crampton.

As normal on the trot-up, the riders with a number of horses got here ahead first. Harry Meade is the one competitor beginning on three mounts (Superstition, Cavalier Crystal and Annaghmore Valoner), whereas New Zealand’s Tim Value, Britain’s Ros Canter, Pippa Funnell and Matthew Heath, France’s Gaspard Maksud and Eire’s Susie Berry all have two.

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