A Bumper Fortnight for Eventing, Part One: Observations from the Ground at Badminton

What a season the 2023 one has been so far – in many respects, it feels like it’s scarcely started here in England; in others, I feel as though I’ve been on the road for months. With several long-haul flights, two five-stars, and a handful of short-formats behind me so far, I suppose I have.

In any case, it turns out that, no matter how many seasons I do this job, I continue to walk away from the big ones with a million thoughts and ideas zooming around my head — for better or for worse, where my energy levels are concerned. And so this will be the first in a short series of faintly chaotic collections of musings spanning the last few weeks of top-level sport: its highs, its lows, its controversies, and what it might all mean for the future. First up: some thoughts in the aftermath of Badminton, where our 2018 World Champion Ros Canter took her first five-star title, the rain came down hard, and we all waded into the quagmire of public opinion – a quagmire we’ve not yet come out of.

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Article written by: Tilly Berendt