The BE100 Mitsubishi Motors Cup cross-country course at Badminton was 3,150m in length in 2019. The optimum time was six-minutes and 38 seconds, with horses riders required to travel at 475m/min, which 22 combinations from 74 starters achieved (30%). Forty-two competitors managed a clear cross-country jumping round — 57% of starters.
Take a look around the course and find out which fences caught combinations out…
Fence 1
Fence 2
Fence 3
Fence 4AB
Fence 5
Continued below…
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Fence 6
Fence 7ABC — nine refusals, one retirement and one rider fall
Fence 8
Fence 9 — one refusal
Fence 10 — one horse fall
Fence 11AB — one refusal
Fence 12
Fence 13 — eight refusals
Fence 14 — one refusal
Fence 15
Fence 16AB — six refusals and one rider fall
Fence 17ABC — one refusal and one retirement
Fence 18
Fence 19
Fence 20AB — 10 refusals and one triggered frangible device (11 penalties)
Fence 21
Fence 22 — one refusal
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Our bumper Badminton report will be in our 9 May issue, including opinion from Mark Phillips and Peter Storr.