March
27, 2003: The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials List of Entries has been
Released
"...
if you go to Badminton, you need your horse really able to jump some big fences."
- Phillip Dutton in the book Eventing Down Under, The Aussie and Kiwi Secret
of Success.
The
list of entries for the CCI****, in England was released today. Five Americans
and one adopted American are among the entrants.
The
Americans slated to compete are:
Bruce
Davidson, of Unionville, PA, twice World Champion and multiple time 
winner
of both the Rolex CCI*** and the Fair Hill International CCI***, has entered his
and Joan Heymann-Bergmann's Apparition. Apparition finished 9th in 2001 at the
Rolex-Kentucky CCI****. (Bruce and Apparition are pictured at right, at Red
Hills, this spring.) Bruce is one of only two Americans to have won Badminton.
Nina
Fout, of Middleburg, VA, plans to take her Team Bronze Medal ride from the 2000
Sydney Olympic Games, 3 Magic Beans. Beany finished 14th at the Burghley CCI****,
in 1999, and 23rd there in 2001.
Karen
O'Connor, of The Plains, VA, will ride Mrs. Jacqueline Mars and Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Thompson's Regal Scot. Scotty won the Punchestown CCI***, in Ireland, with his
former owner and rider, twice Olympic Individual Gold Medalist, New Zealand's
Mark Todd. He was second with Karen at the Fair Hill International CCI***, in
1999. (Karen and Regal Scott are pictured at left at Red Hills, this spring.)
Christy
Price will run her Advanced Division winner from Southern Pines this year, Grey
Spirit II. Christy and Grey Spirit were 22nd at the Punchestown CCI***, in the
spring of 2002 and 42nd at the Burghley CCI****, in the fall of 2002.
Natalie
Rooney-Pitts is planning to take Aladdin. Natalie was the winner of the first
Foxhall Cup CCI***. She and Aladdin are currently entered at The Jaguar Select
Edition CIC-W*** at Galway Downs, in California, this weekend. Aladdin has placed
21st at the Rolex Kentucky CCI**** in 2001 and 42nd at the Burghley CCI****, that
fall.
Finally,
adopted American, Phillip Dutton, who resides in West Grove, PA, but
rides internationally for Australia, has entered his and Mr. Bruce Duchossois'
Hannigan and his and Mrs. Annie Jones' Cayman Went. Both Hannigan and Cayman Went
were recent winners of Advanced Divisions last weekend at Poplar Place. Hannigan
and Phillip finished 14th at the Burghley CCI****, in 2001. (Phillip and Hannigan
are pictured at right at Red Hill, this spring.)
Also
planning to cross the Atlantic for this hemisphere are Canada's Bruce Mandeville
and Larissa, also recent winners of an Advanced Division at Southern Pines. Larissa
and Bruce were 22nd at the Sydney Olympic Games, in 2000, 14th at the Rolex CCI****,
in 2001, and 29th at the WEG last fall in Jerez, Spain.
Beyond
these, Badminton 2003 is a virtual Who's Who of the Eventing world!
Among the Brits, last year's winner Pippa Funnell, the reigning European Champion
and a member of Great Britain's WEG Bronze Medal Team, has entered Cornerman,
5th at Burghley in 2001; Jurassic Rising, 2nd at the Chatsworth CIC*** last year
and the winner of an OI Section at Tweseldown this month; and Primmore's Pride,
6th at Burghley last year.
The
FEI's 2002 Leading Rider William Fox-Pitt, 2nd at Badminton last year with Tamarillo,
his WEG Team Bronze Medal ride, will be aiming to better that standard. (William
and Tamarillo are pictured at left at Badminton, 2002.) He also brings his
2002 Burghley winner Highland Lad as well as Moonman, 7th at Burghley last year.
Jeanette
Brakewell has entered Over To You, her WEG, 2002, Individual Silver Medal and
WEG Team Bronze Medal ride.
Finland's
Piia Pantsu will run her WEG, 2002, Individual Bronze Medal horse Yapaja Karuso.
Ready
Teddy, the only horse to have won both an Olympic Individual Gold Medal (Atlanta,
1996) and a WEG Individual Gold Medal (Pratoni, 1998) has been entered by his
owner and rider New Zealand's Blyth Tait.
In
addition to Bruce Davidson and Pippa Funnell, both previous Badminton winners,
Mary King, also a previous winner, has entered Ryan V, 5th at the Punchestown
CCI***, in 2002, and King Solomonn III, 4th at Burghley in 2001 and 3rd there
in 2002.
To
see the entire list of entries please click on www.badminton-horse.co.uk
