Accurate Riding Is the Most Important Factor for This Year's Badminton Cross-Country Challengers

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Hugh Thomas' cross-country challenge for the 2010 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (April 30-May 3), see right, is imposing in size and demands accurate riding.

After the inviting Mitsubishi Starter (fence one), the flower bed in the main arena, it's left out of the gate to Higham's Brush (2), named in honour of Badminton's retiring stud groom, Brian Higham, a nd on to the charity fence, the World Horse Welfare Quarry (3, 4, 5, 6).

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Accurate Riding Is the Most Important Factor for This Year's Badminton Cross-Country Challengers

This is the first real test on the course, where the direct route involves turns in and out of the pit, over massive logs both at the bottom and top of steep i...

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