Can’t wait to see the Kentucky cross-country course 2021? Here it is! Every fence on the cross-country track for the 2021 running of the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, which kicks off tomorrow (22 April) with two days of dressage.
The cross-country, over a course designed by Derek di Grazia, takes place on Saturday, with Sunday’s showjumping rounding off the event.
The cross-country course is 6270m long and the optimum time will be 11 minutes.
Our pictures were taken on Wednesday after it had snowed overnight and the Kentucky team had covered the flowers and fence dressing to protect them from the cold. These coverings will be removed before the horses and riders take on the course.
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The dressage arena in front of Badminton House, in 1954. The Main Arena was moved in 1960.
Dressage and showjumping at next year’s Badminton Horse Trials will return to the front of Badminton House for the first time in 60 years.
The event is being run “behind closed doors” because of Covid-19 restrictions, prompting the move of the Main Arena. For the first 10 years of the horse trials, the dressage and showjumping arena was in front of the house before moving to its current location in 1960.
Badminton, which is a 5-star international event and part of the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing, was founded in 1949 and takes place on The Duke of Beaufort’s estate in Gloucestershire. The event was cancelled last year.