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




Fence in entrance can be eliminated previous to competitors
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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