An Eventful Life is filming all competitors on cross country at
Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials 2022
The four-day Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials event will go ahead as planned from Thursday 15th September until Sunday 18th September
Organised by The Jockey Club for the first time in 2021, the Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials once again features a CCI4*-L class and a CCI4*-S for eight and nine-year-old horses in 2022
Although Blenheim clashes with the dates for the 2022 World Championships at Pratoni, Italy, there is an eye-wateringly good entry list for both classes.
While last year’s winners are not here – Yasmin Ingham and Banzai Du Loir having been called up for the British team at the World Championships and Nicola Wilson sadly unable to ride at the moment, there are plenty of hot contenders to follow.
In the CCI4*-L, keep an eye out for the 2019 Burghley winners Pippa Funnell and MGH Grafton Street, recent Millstreet CCI4*-S winners Gemma Stevens and Jalapeno and individual European bronze medallists Sarah Bullimore and Corouet. Australia’s Sam Lyle and BF Valour will be having their first international start on British soil after a successful season in Australia and he will be joined by Bill Levett on Loxleys Last Stand while Sam Lissington, Ginny Thompson, Vicky Browne-Cole, Dan Jocelyn and Jesse Campbell will be competing for New Zealand.
Jesse’s wife Georgie has some nice young horses in the CCI4*-S and we’ll be looking out for Piggy March on the grey stallion Halo, even though this will be his first real 4* run, as well as Bill Levett’s Sligo Candy Cane who is more experienced at this level with four starts and a fifth place at CCI4*-L level at Millstreet. New Zealand’s Caroline Powell is another jockey whose experience could help her young horse at this big event and her Greenacres Special Cavalier had a top 10 finish at Bramham plus third place at Ballendenisk in April
The courses they are set to tackle will see some changes with David Evans, designing at Blenheim for the sixth year, says there quite a few new changes, including ‘a canal turn type fence to represent The Jockey Club’
The fence will ‘have a big ditch in front of it, on a turn’ somewhere on the course and will be one of 8 – 12 new fences on the course with a variety of different combinations.
We’re filming all riders on cross country and you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for video snippets and more during the event
