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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. ....
Burghley Horse Trials 2019. Stilton rider Richard Skelt riding Credo III in the dressage. Photo: David Lowndes The internationally renowned event, which was due to be held between September 2-5, has been cancelled for a second consecutive year as there remains “too many variables and uncertainties due to the Covid-19 pandemic” according to organisers. Organisers had been working hard over the last six months to host the event in 2021, after it was cancelled for the first time in its history last year, but have now conceded that the risk of hosting an international event, that may have to be cancelled at late notice, without available pandemic insurance would be too great. ....