With competitors about to get underway correctly on the 2022 Badminton Horse Trials, introduced by Mars Equestrian, we check out what lies forward for riders on the cross-country course on Saturday 7 May. The course is roughly 6,700m in size and has an optimum time of 11min45sec. Designed by Eric Winter, how will this 12 months’s Badminton Horse Trials cross-country course journey?
Fence one: Spillers Starter
Fence two: Mike Weaver’s Haywain
Fence three: The Badminton Logs
Fence 4 ABC: HorseQuest Quarry
Fence 4 BC various route
Fence 5: RDA Fundraiser
Fence six ABC: Voltaire Design Huntsman’s Close
Fence seven: Pedigree Kennels
Fence eight: Lightsource bp Lower Lake
Fence 9/10AB:Badminton Lake
Alternative fence 10B
Fence 11: World Horse Welfare Lakeside
Fence 12AB: Clarence Court Egg Boxes
Fence 13: Ford Broken Bridge
Fence 14ABC: KBIS Brush Village
Fence 15: Mars Equestrian Footbridge
Fence 16: Countryside Alliance Roll Top Brush
Fence 17AB: Mars Equestrian Sustainability Bay
Fence 18ABC: LeMieux Leap
Alternative fence 18C
Fence 19AB/20: Nyetimber Corners
Alternative fence 19A
Alternative fence 19B
Fence 21/22: Rolex Rails
Alternative fence 21
Alternative fence 22
Fence 23AB: Holland Cooper Vicarage Vee
Alternative fence 23AB
Fence 24ABCD: Lightsource bp Solar Farm
Alternative fence 24ABCD
Fence 25: Badminton Collection Flower Boxes
Fence 26AB/27: Mars M
Fence 28: Brewers Barrels
Fence 29AB: Saville Hay Feeder
Riders can select which half B they wish to take from the three packing containers under
Fence 30: Joules Keepers Brush (riders can select to leap both the left-handed or right-handed home)
Fence 31: Rolex Trunk (fencing can be eliminated)
Fence 32: Platinum Jubilee
Read our full Badminton type information on this week’s problem of Horse & Hound (problem dated 5 May 2022). Our bumper 20-page Badminton report can be in our 12 May problem.
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