Which fences caught riders out at Badminton’s BE100 Mitsubishi Cup?

The Mitsubishi Motors Cup held at Badminton Horse Trials immediately before the prestigious four-star event gives event riders at the lower levels of the sport the opportunity to perform on one of the biggest stages of the eventing world.

This year, the BE100 championship was won by Katie Hancock from Cornwall riding her own 10-year-old Kilcandra Rambo Ray. The combination triumphed on their impressive dressage mark of 24 penalties, 7.8 penalties clear of their nearest rival. Second place went to Stephanie Waite riding Stay In Touch who finished on a score of 31.8. Third place was occupied by Zoe Davison riding Cavaliers Back To Black, who finished on 32.4 penalties.

The course caused problems at a number of different fences. In total 59% of cross-country starters completed the cross-country course with no jumping penalties.

Here are pictures of the fences riders faced on the cross-country. The championship course was 3100m in length with an optimum time of 6 minutes 35 seconds. Find out which fences caught most riders out with our fence-by-fence analysis.

Start box

Fence 1: BE Flower Box
0 faulters

Fence 2: Huntsmans Roll Top
0 faulters

Fence 3ab: Park Logs
1 refusal

Fence 4: ASX Cross Question
0 faulters

Fence 5ab: Wadworths at The Lake
6refusals

5a alternative

Fence 6ab: World Horse Welfare Garden Fence
0 faulters

Fence 7: Woodhouse Table
1 refusal

Fence 8: Danco Shooting Butt
0 faulters

Fence 9ab: Devoucoux Brushes
8 refusals

Alternative 9a

Alternative 9b

Fence 10: Spillers Horse Feeds Beam
1 refusal

Fence 11: PHEV Brush
0 faulters

Fence 12, 13 and 14: Irish Horse Gateway Combination
Fence 12: 1 refusal
Fence 13: 1 refusals
Fence 14: 2 refusals

14 alternative

Fence 15abc: Shogun Hollow
17 refusals
3 falls

Fence 16ab: CrossCountry App House (fastest route is to jump this on the left as a corner)
10 refusals

Fence 16b alternative

Fence 17ab: Four-Star Wall
0 faulters

Fence 18ab: Mirage Step
5 refusals

Fence 18a alternative

Fence 18b alternative

Fence 19: Outlander Wagon
1 refusal
1 fall

Fence 20ab: Careers in Racing Quarry
4 refusals
1 fall

Fence 21: James’ Book
0 faulters

Read the full Mitsubishi Motors Cup report in Horse & Hound magazine (12 May 2016).

Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.