The flower box at the top of the trot-up strip was a cause of concern for some of the horses taking part in the first horse inspection at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials on Wednesday (3 September, 2014). Among those that took a particular exception to it were Francis Whittington’s Hasty Imp and William Fox-Pitt’s Bay My Hero as seen in the video above.
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