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Reitsport · Eventing · Badminton

MARS Badminton Horse Trials

Bestätigt · Badminton House and Park

Five days of five-star eventing in the Duke of Beaufort's park in Gloucestershire, and one of the largest paying single-day crowds in world sport.

Eine Veranstaltungsseite informiert darüber, wann die Veranstaltung stattfindet (mit Angabe der Datumssicherheit), warum sie relevant ist, wie sich die Woche um sie herum anfühlt, wann die Anreise und Abreise sinnvoll ist, wo Teilnehmer übernachten, wie der Zugang funktioniert und welche Veranstaltungen im Circuit davor und danach folgen.

Daten BestätigtThe organizer publishes the 2027 event as Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 May 2027 on badminton-horse.co.uk.
ZielBadminton, United Kingdom · Badminton House and Park
KategorieReitsport · Eventing
Bedeutung50 Bemerkenswert · Circuit Score, redaktionell und vorläufig
Internationale AnziehungskraftInternational
ZugangKostenpflichtig
Typischer Aufenthalt2–3 nights
Beste AnreiseFriday
Beste AbfahrtszeitMonday
Üblicher ZeitrahmenWednesday to Sunday in the first half of May, with cross-country on the Saturday
OrganisatorBadminton Horse Trials (Badminton Estate, the Duke of Beaufort) · seit 1949
Offizielle Websitebadminton-horse.co.uk/ ↗
KalenderZum Kalender hinzufügen (ICS) · Eine Reise darum planen
Jeanette Brakewell and Major Buck (Irish Sport Horse [1]) at The Lake during the cross-country phase of Badminton Horse, MARS Badminton Horse Trials Badminton Horse Trials 2026, Bubby Upton show jumping, MARS Badminton Horse Trials Badminton Horse Trials 2026, Bubby Upton show jumping, MARS Badminton Horse Trials

Badminton is one of only a handful of CCI five-star three-day events in the world, and the one most people mean when they say eventing. It runs over five days in the park of Badminton House in South Gloucestershire: dressage on Thursday and Friday, cross-country on Saturday, showjumping on Sunday.

Cross-country day is why the event matters commercially as well as sportingly: the course runs for several miles across the estate, spectators walk it freely, and the Saturday crowd is among the largest paying single-day audiences in world sport.

01Warum es relevant ist

Badminton is the sport's benchmark, and its course design sets the standard other five-stars are measured against. In our reading its most unusual quality is scale relative to formality: a crowd the size of a Premier League weekend, in a private park, with no dress code.

02Die Woche darum

The estate villages fill for the week and the market towns within half an hour take the rest. The shopping village of several hundred trade stands functions as a country fair in its own right.

03Anreisezeitpunkt

Saturday is the day: come for cross-country, arrive early, and plan to walk several miles across rough ground.

04Unterkunft

There is nothing at Badminton beyond the estate: Tetbury and Malmesbury are the closest bases, around twenty minutes away, and camping on the estate is how a large share of the crowd stays.

05Zugang und Hospitality

Admission is sold through the organizer's own box office, with day tickets and season badges; hospitality is sold in the Members' Enclosure, the Portcullis Club and the Lakeside Pavilions. Entry is genuinely open and the cross-country course is walked by everyone on the same terms.

06Wo das gesellschaftliche Geschehen stattfindet

The Lake, the Vicarage Vee and the other named fences, where the crowd stacks up several deep on the Saturday; the shopping village, the event's social spine; and the main arena stands on Sunday.

07Anreise

LinienluftfahrtBristol Airport is about an hour by road.
BahnThere is no station at Badminton; Chippenham, Bath Spa and Bristol Parkway are the nearest railheads.
AutoM4 junction 18, then the A46; a wet week makes the grass car parks the real hazard.
PrivatluftfahrtBristol and Gloucestershire airports; there is no field at the estate.

08Praktische Hinweise

KleidungThere is no dress code at Badminton and the event is the better for it. What everyone wears is country clothing chosen for weather and distance: a waxed jacket, a flat cap, and boots that can handle mud, because cross-country day means several miles on wet grass. Wellingtons are standard and not an affectation.
WetterEarly May in Gloucestershire is unpredictable, with the real variable being rain: a wet Badminton turns the going heavy, the walking difficult and the car parks a genuine problem.
Vor Ort navigierenA car is effectively necessary; arrive early on the Saturday and expect a slow exit, and on site everything is walked.
HotelsLocal supply is thin and taken early, often a year ahead within ten miles; Bath and Bristol are the reliable fallback.
RestaurantsThe shopping village carries a large food offering across the five days; off site, the Cotswold pubs and the restaurants of Bath take bookings well ahead.
ReservierungszeitpunktTickets go on sale in the autumn or winter, with hospitality and camping selling earlier than general admission.
TicketsSold through the organizer's own box office, with day tickets, season tickets and car parking, plus camping sold separately; under-16 admission has historically been free or heavily discounted.
HospitalityHospitality is sold in the Members' Enclosure, the Portcullis Club and the Lakeside Pavilions with inclusions published per package.

09Geschichte

The 10th Duke of Beaufort created the event in 1949, opening his park so British riders would have somewhere to train after a poor showing at the 1948 Olympics. It has been held in the same place ever since and cancelled seven times for weather, disease and the pandemic.

10Wer ist dort

The international eventing community — riders, owners, grooms and selectors from across Europe, Australasia and the United States; the British country-sports public in very large numbers; and the equestrian trade.

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Bisher erfasste Termine

AusgabeDatenStatusQuelleVerifiziert
2027 BestätigtThe organizer publishes the 2027 event as Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 May 2027 on badminton-horse.co.uk. MARS Badminton Horse Trials — official site ↗ 6 September 2026
2026 AbgeschlossenThe 2026 event ran Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 May at Badminton, following the usual Wednesday-to-Sunday pattern with cross-country on the Saturday and showjumping on the Sunday. Final Results 2026 — Badminton Horse Trials ↗ 6 September 2026
Confirmed bedeutet, dass der Veranstalter oder das zuständige Gremium die Termine veröffentlicht hat. Expected und Historical pattern sind Schätzungen auf Basis des üblichen Ablaufs und können sich verschieben. Date pending bedeutet, dass noch keine verlässliche Angabe möglich ist.

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Quellen

  1. MARS Badminton Horse Trials — official site, Badminton Horse Trials official aufgerufen 6 September 2026
  2. Final Results 2026, Badminton Horse Trials official aufgerufen 6 September 2026
  3. Badminton Horse Trials, Wikipedia encyclopedia aufgerufen 6 September 2026
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