I thought the course was good. The issue fences were classic Derek, most runouts and glance offs. No real humdinger falls that I saw. Certainly nothing like Badminton.
The brush corner in the water had such low rails I was surprised it caused falls.
The intro interview of Nicola Wilson at the start was heartbreaking. Amazing person — her life changed forever due to that fall but she was so optimistic. That has to be SO hard.
Not one German entry?
The fence analysis is on the main page, you just have to scroll down. I can’t figure out how to paste the link.
https://burghley-horse.co.uk/content/audio/Burghley-Fence-analysis-Press-version.pdf
Oh I think I got it:
Over 10% of runs ended in horse falls (even omitting Tregilder’s fall, which though marked as occurring at the penultimate fence he cleared the fence then stumbled and fell the stride after) - I don’t think that can be painted as a good statistic and think may actually be a worse rate than Badminton. Three horse fell at the trout hatchery, two at open overs before the Cottesmore leap (and there would have been more falls there but for the frangibles doing their job). As soon as you’ve got that rate of horse falls you’re then relying on luck that there are no catastrophic injuries to horse or rider. Luck was obviously on the side of a lot of the fallers where it wasn’t for poor Nicola at Badminton or the Japanese horse at Bramham.
It felt like a pretty bland course on the whole; there were a lot of features/ terrain (ditches, banks, steps, the flyover) that went unused or were only used as alternates and he added back in the Waterloo loop that hasn’t been used for quite a while but did nothing interesting there, just two let up fences. All of the ‘wow’ fences were Burghley classics, like the Cottesmore Leap, with nothing new added like the broken bridge at Badminton for future years. A lot of open rails, skinnies and corners. The one bit I did like was the combination in the arena, that was an interesting line that was tighter in reality than I think the course walk made it appear.
Yes, there were horse falls, but there is a big difference between a fall and a really scary rotational fall, of which I saw several at Badminton. Scariest of the day was the horse that hung up on the Cottesmore Leap, which not sure that even counts as a horse fall. It was scary based on how the rider catapulted off, but he was back up immediately and right to the horse.
I don’t like any horse falls, but it sure felt better than Badminton to me.
What a masterclass of a round by Pippa!
Thank you! I prefer the eventing scores analysis, more visual and colourful 
Agreed
Falls were mostly course design fault too, not rider imo.
Falls suck but these ones all weren’t too bad at all and everyone walked away off the course. That’s rare.
Seriously she is incredible
Cornelia is up!
Daytona Beach 8 has a very interesting jumping style, but effective! Yay Cornelia!!!
Clear inside the time! What a team.
I looked at the jump analysis from XC. It seems to me that most of the falls and problems were the last jump of the alternate routes at 7 and 10 or am I reading that wrong?
US riders sit 16th, 20th and 24th. It will be interesting to see how those results will compare to WEG. I’m glad to see these US riders at Bughley. If you want to be the best in the world you have to compete with the best on a regular basis. I’m hoping some of our younger riders move to the UK or EU and get out there against the best routinely.
3 falls at the brush corner in the water.
2 falls at the double oxers.
One fall at the Cottesmore leap
One fall on the flat
One I believe at the leaf pit
Yes and the other Americans did great too it’s just unfortunate they both got jumped out of the tack and had those 20s. But really, they have Burghley horses and that’s pretty impressive.
Emily Hamel’s 20 was actually removed. Cornelia could potentially end up top 10 if the rails keep falling!
From what I gather from the commentators, are there three first timers in the top 10? Cornelia Dorr, Alice Casburn, and Tom Jackson?
So happy for Piggy and Vanir Kamira! What a great finish.
Oh really? That’s great! I see she finished 20th!
Wow Piggy! No one deserves it more!
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