2011 RESULTS

Olympic gold medallist and Badminton winner Mark Todd was in winning mode on the opening day of the Festival of British Eventing winning the Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse qualifier for four-year-old horses.

Mark headed the class with Johnny Johnston's homebred stallion Opposition Supremacy, who is by his leading event stallion Fleetwater Opposition, sire of British team horse Opposition Buzz. The young black stallion described by his breeder as the best, went into the lead after the first three sections of dressage, show jumping and conformation then showed his fluent paces to best effect in the final section of suitability and potential to gain 9 out of 10 from judge Hopper Cavendish. Opposition Supremacy is one of five full siblings for his dam Hathor who is by the Thoroughbred Ra Nova. His full brothers include advanced eventers Opposition Detective and Serious Opposition.

Second place went to Bumble Thomas and the Harlequin du Carel sired chestnut Harlequin Treat who gained the highest dressage marks of the class and third place to the already qualified Togo De Kerser ridden by Sammi McLeod, a Belgian bred gelding bought at last year's sales held at the World Young Horse Championships at Le Lions D'Angers in France.

The third qualifying ticket for a place in the finals at Burghley on Friday 1st September therefore went to the fourth placed Georgie Nicholls, wife of leading National Hunt trainer Paul Nicholls with Tamisier a French-bred Thoroughbred by Ragmar who stands at the National Stud at Pompadour. Ostensibly bred for the track Tamisier impressed with his gallop to gain the full 10/10 in the final section but also gained high marks for his dressage test.

1 Opposition Supremacy (M Todd) 91; 2, Harlequin Treat (B Thomas) 87; 3, Togo de Kerser (S McLeod) 85; 4, Tamisier (G NIcholls) 85; 5, Carina (A James) 81; 6, Bally Flagmount (J Blakeway) 73.

Former event rider turned show jumper Bumble Thomas and the Jumbo sired Made To Dance headed a strong five-year-old Dubarry Burghley Young Event Horse qualifier at The Festival of British Eventing presented by The Equestrian Trade Association. Made to Dance who was bred by his owner the former international rider Frances Hooper out of her advanced mare Maid of Honour, gained an impressive 38/40 from jump judge Philip Tuckwell and impressed Hopper Cavendish in the final phase to gain the full ten marks.

Giovanni Ugolotti and Juliet Mason's homebred stallion Burlyns Copyright stood a close second. Of similar type to the winner Burlyns Copyright who is by the grand prix dressage stallion Catherston Springsteen was a former foal champion at several major shows. His owner hopes he will go for grading with Sport Horse Breeding GB later in the autumn.

Australian rider Sammi McLeod gained the third qualifying place with Susan Lambs Kinfabregas. Irish bred by the Thoroughbred Porter Rhodes he was bought from Donal Barnwell as a three-year-old.

Results shown on the tables are the scores received in each section out of a possible 100 total marks

DRESSAGE /35 - JUMPING /40 - CONFORMATION /15 - FINAL JUDGING / 10