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The event, which was cancelled last year owing to Covid, will take place at its usual home, the NEC Birmingham.
“Following the recent Government announcements, we have decided to go ahead with the planning of a fantastic HOYS 2021, with a ticketed audience,” said a spokesman for Grandstand.
“Along with exceptional competition and displays, the first part of the week is packed with all the fan favourites including mountain and moorland classes on Wednesday to Friday, national showjumping championships on Thursday, and the prestigious Price family supreme in-hand championship showcasing on Friday.”
Opinion
And so there it is – the news that Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials 2021 is cancelled. Gone, like so many events in these Covid-stricken times.
Last year, each announcement felt like a body blow, although as time went on, there was a sort of grinding inevitability about it all.
This time, I feel slightly numb. Badminton Horse Trials’ cancellation was a shock, because the organisers had been so certain they could run behind closed doors. But as Bramham Horse Trials, Chatsworth Horse Trials, the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe and more followed, my brain sort of shut down and stopped processing each individual loss.
The 2021 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials will not run, organisers have confirmed with “immense sadness”, owing to continued uncertainty over coronavirus.
The event was due to run from 2-5 September and would have been Britain’s only CCI5 of 2021 following the cancellation of Badminton. But today (7 May), organisers said: “Despite the continued easing of lockdown measures, the nationwide vaccination programme and the hope within the Government roadmap for unlocking the country, there have been and remain too many variables and uncertainties due to the Covid-19 pandemic to deliver this much-loved international event.”
A Burghley statement said the team has “striven” for the last six months to find a scenario that would allow the event to run.
Royal Windsor Horse Show tickets will go on sale at 9am tomorrow (Thursday, 6 May).
Five-star showjumping returns to Royal Windsor this year, featuring a total prize fund of more than €500,000 (£431,000) and finishing with the Rolex grand prix on Sunday, 4 July.
There will also be the usual high-profile showing classes, international driving and endurance, but no dressage this year.
Membership tickets, limited to 500 members plus guests, and general entry tickets will both be available to buy from tomorrow (6 May).
Organisers have said they will allow up to 4,000 spectator tickets on each of the four days of the show, adhering to the Government Covid-19 guidelines as of 17 May.