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HSBC FEI Classics™: Fox-Pitt swoops to conquer at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials
1 September 2011William Fox-Pitt (GBR), the new world number one, is on top again, this time at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), the second-last leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, where he leads after the first day of Dressage on a mark of 39.7.
Fox-Pitt (GBR), who is wearing the special armband as leader of the HSBC Rankings, has posted the only sub-40 mark so far on his first ride, Catherine Witt’s 11-year-old Parklane Hawk, winner of the Blenheim CCI3* (GBR) last year.
Read moreWilliam Fox-Pitt moves up to world number one in HSBC Rankings
1 September 2011William Fox-Pitt (GBR) has taken over from team mate Mary King as world number one in the HSBC Rankings. The British rider, who is competing at the second last leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™ at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials this week, is now seven points clear of King and will be wearing the HSBC armband at Burghley.
Both Fox-Pitt and King were part of the British team that secured bronze at the HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships in Luhmühlen (GER) last weekend, but King failed to finish after a Cross Country fall.
Read moreLand Rover Burghley Horse Trials celebrates 50 glorious years
31 August 2011An all-star cast heads to this week’s Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), second last leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™ 2011 (1-4 September).
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It is a particularly special year for Burghley, as it is 50 years ago that the historic Lincolnshire estate hosted its first competition by invitation of the 1928 hurdling Olympic gold medallist, the Marquess of Exeter.JUBILANT GERMANS TAKE DOUBLE GOLD AT HSBC FEI EUROPEAN EVENTING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT LUHMUEHLEN
28 August 2011by Kate Green
Read moreGERMAN "DREAM TEAM" ENJOY GOLDEN DAY AT HSBC FEI EUROPEAN EVENTING CHAMPIONSHIPS
27 August 2011by Kate Green
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