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.
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![Jeanette Brakewell and Major Buck (Irish Sport Horse [1]) at The Lake during the cross-country phase of Badminton Horse, MARS Badminton Horse Trials](/static/img/photos/event-badminton-horse-trials-2.webp)
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.
01Perché è rilevante
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.
02La settimana intorno all'evento
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.
03Quando arrivare
Saturday is the day: come for cross-country, arrive early, and plan to walk several miles across rough ground.
04Dove alloggiare
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.
05Accesso e ospitalità
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.
06Dove si svolge l'attività sociale
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.
07Come arrivare
08Aspetti pratici
09Storia
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.
10Chi è presente
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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Il circuito continua
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Date registrate
| Edizione | Date | Stato |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | ConfermatoThe organizer publishes the 2027 event as Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 May 2027 on badminton-horse.co.uk. | |
| 2026 | CompletatoThe 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. |
Eventi correlati
Fonti
- MARS Badminton Horse Trials — official site, Badminton Horse Trials official consultato 6 September 2026
- Final Results 2026, Badminton Horse Trials official consultato 6 September 2026
- Badminton Horse Trials, Wikipedia encyclopedia consultato 6 September 2026