Updated Entries 25th April
Last year's runner-up, Ireland's Lucy Latta riding RCA Patron Saint and Britain's Rosie Bradley-Hole are the latest withdrawals with two Irish riders making it onto the Entry List in their places. Joseph Murphy, who is already entered with Calmaro, will now also ride Belline Fighting Spirit and Ian Cassells is accepted with Master Point.
Updated Entries 23rd April
The drawn order is now out with one more withdrawal and acceptance from the entry list. China’s Alex Hua Tian has withdrawn Jillsonne van Bareelhof and has been replaced by Britain’s Selina Milnes riding Gelmer.
Find out more about the Badminton Horse Trials Drawn Order here
Updated Entries 18th April
Tim Price's Falco is the latest withdrawal from the Badminton entry list as Falco joins Tim's two other horses, Jarillo and Happy Boy, confirming his three rides on the Kentucky Drawn Order. Tim still has two entries for Badminton in Viscount Viktor and Vitali.
Harry Meade's rides at Badminton are also firming up with his confirmation on social media that his 'the two bays' (Grafennacht and Et Hop Du Matz) were boarding the plane to Kentucky. That leaves Harry with three on the Badminton list (Cavalier Crystal, Superstition and Annaghmore Valoner), with only two probable starters.
The latest addition to the Acceptances is Britain's Jack Pinkney riding Rehy Revelation, moved from the Wait List.
Updated Entries 15th April
Two more international combinations have joined the MARS Badminton Horse Trials entry list with Ireland’s Patrick Whelan riding Ikoon LAN and Austria’s Dr Harald Ambros riding Vitorio Du Montet joining the accepted entries.
Unfortunately on the flip side of that have been two withdrawals with British combinations Aaron Miller riding KEC Deakon and Emma Thomas riding The Buzz Factor no longer competing at the big event.
Updated Entries 11th April
Another combination has now been accepted onto the Badminton Horse Trials Entry List from the Waitlist after the withdrawal of Britain’s Storm Straker and Fever Pitch.
Helen Bates riding Carpe Diem now joins the main list, which now also has three more certain starters in Ireland’s Joseph Murphy riding Calmaro, Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meyer and Hooney D’Arville and Britain’s Tom McEwen riding JL Dublin all having withdrawn from Defender Kentucky entry list.
Updated Entries 2nd April
Britain's Nicky Hill riding MGH Bingo Boy and New Zealand's Lauren Innes riding Global Fison M are off the Waitlist and onto the Entry List following the withdrawal of Gubby Leech riding Royal Harvest and Laura Collett riding Hester, who was also withdrawn from last week's Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby. Laura still has one entry on the list with her other mare, Bling.
For amateur rider Lauren Innes, it will be another chance to 'live the dream' as she told us at Badminton last year.
Who is entered for MARS Badminton Horse Trials 2025?
Defending champions plus Olympic and World Champions will be heading to MARS Badminton Horse Trials 2025
The 2024 defending champions of the 2024 MARS Badminton Horse Trials, New Zealand’s Caroline Powell and Greenacres Special Cavalier, plus Ireland’s runner-up Lucy Latta riding RCA Patron Saint and British rider Alex Bragg, this time riding Ardeo Premier, will return to Badminton in 2025. Defending champion Caroline has dual entries with both last year’s winner Greenacres Special Cavalier and High Time, competing his second CCI5* event.
British supporters will have plenty of combinations to cheer on with Olympic medallists and World Champions heading a star-studded entry for the MARS Badminton Horse Trials, taking place from May 7th -11th.
The three members of Britain's victorious Olympic team in Paris last year are entered; reigning European champions, Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo, winners of Badminton in 2023, will be aiming to add another Badminton victory to Olympic team gold and the 2024 Burghley crown.
World number one, Tom McEwen brings his Paris 2024 horse JL Dublin along with the former Piggy March mount, Brookfield Quality (with both horses also entered at Kentucky) while Laura Collett, the Paris 2024 individual bronze medallist and Badminton winner in 2022, has the two mares Bling and Hester entered.
The reigning World Champion Yasmin Ingham will also make her Badminton debut riding Rehy DJ while Oliver Townend will be a hot contender, with the exciting mare Cooley Rosalent, already a winner at this level at Kentucky last year, plus the 18-year-old Ballaghmor Class, one of the all-time equine greats with an extraordinary record at five-star level.
Seven of the top 10 riders in the FEI World Rankings are represented. World number two Tim Price has yet to add Badminton to his glittering CV, but he looks to have a great chance with a choice of 2022 world bronze medallist Falco, Burghley runner-up Vitali and Viscount Viktor.
Tim and 2024 Champion Caroline are joined by several other Kiwi combinations in Dan Jocelyn (Blackthorn Cruise) Sam Lissington (Lord Seekonig and Ricker Ridge Sooty), US-based Joe Meyer (Harbin) and Jonelle Price (Grappa Nera). Lauren Innes riding Global Fision M, Tayla Mason riding Centennial and Hollie Swain riding Solo are on the list of 17 waitlisted combinations.
Australia has two entries in Sammi Birch riding Finduss PFB, who will be presented with her 'bucket-list' Armada Dish this year, and Sam Cesnik on board Graftango, who had their European 5* debut at Pau last year.
There are also three entries from the USA in Jennie Brannigan riding FE Lifestyle, Tiana Coudray riding Cancaras Girl and Grace Taylor riding Game Changer.
Others to watch include Emily King (Valmy Biats), Gemma Stevens (Jalapeno and Chilli Knight) and Ben Hobday, reunited with Shadow Man, an Olympic silver medallist under Australia's Chris Burton in Paris. Harry Meade, whose five-horse entry includes Cavalier Crystal and Annaghmore Valoner, third and fourth at Burghley last year, has also taken over the ride on the lovely mare Grafennacht from William Fox-Pitt, the other two being Superstition and Et Hop Du Matz.
"We have competitors from 15 nations wanting to compete at Badminton, from some of the sport's biggest names to first-timers hoping to pull off an impressive result like Lucy Latta did last year," said Badminton Director Jane Tuckwell. "It's going to be a thrilling competition and there is no doubt that the British team's wonderful performance in Paris last year has been an inspiration and a shot in the arm for five-star eventing. It is exciting the entry contains eight horses who have won a five star"
With more than 100 entries received, 17 combinations are currently waitlisted. The 15 nations represented, many by Olympic riders, are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland and USA.
