Name: MARS Badminton Horse Trials 2027
Start: 2027-05-05
End: 2027-05-09
Location: 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.

एक आयोजन पृष्ठ आपको बताता है कि यह कब होता है (तिथि के बारे में हम कितने निश्चित हैं), यह क्यों महत्त्वपूर्ण है, उसके आसपास का सप्ताह कैसा लगता है, कब पहुँचें और कब जाएँ, लोग कहाँ ठहरते हैं, पहुँच कैसे काम करती है, और सर्किट पर इससे पहले और बाद में कौन से आयोजन आते हैं।

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.

01यह क्यों महत्वपूर्ण है

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.

02इसके आसपास का सप्ताह

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.

03कब पहुँचें

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

04कहाँ ठहरें

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.

05पहुँच एवं आतिथ्य

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.

06सामाजिक गतिविधि कहाँ होती है

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.

07वहां कैसे पहुंचें

वाणिज्यिक विमाननBristol Airport is about an hour by road.

रेलThere is no station at Badminton; Chippenham, Bath Spa and Bristol Parkway are the nearest railheads.

कारM4 junction 18, then the A46; a wet week makes the grass car parks the real hazard.

निजी विमाननBristol and Gloucestershire airports; there is no field at the estate.

08व्यावहारिक जानकारी

परिधानThere 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.

मौसमEarly 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.

आवागमनA car is effectively necessary; arrive early on the Saturday and expect a slow exit, and on site everything is walked.

होटलLocal supply is thin and taken early, often a year ahead within ten miles; Bath and Bristol are the reliable fallback.

रेस्तराँThe 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.

आरक्षण का समयTickets go on sale in the autumn or winter, with hospitality and camping selling earlier than general admission.

टिकटSold 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.

आतिथ्यHospitality is sold in the Members' Enclosure, the Portcullis Club and the Lakeside Pavilions with inclusions published per package.

09इतिहास

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.

10वहाँ कौन है

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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2027

May 5–9, 2027

पुष्टि की गईThe 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

May 6–10, 2026

पूर्णThe 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 का अर्थ है कि आयोजक या शासी निकाय ने तिथियाँ प्रकाशित कर दी हैं। Expected और Historical pattern आयोजन के सामान्य समय से लिए गए अनुमान हैं और बदल सकते हैं। Date pending का अर्थ है कि अभी तक कुछ भी विश्वसनीय रूप से नहीं कहा जा सकता।

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