USEA - Badminton and Kentucky Agree on Future Dates
Updated: 2009-09-08
The Organizers of the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials and the
Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event have been able to avoid a clash of dates
in the future.
Badminton announced earlier this year that it would be running over the
weekend of the May Day bank holiday from 2010, with cross country day
on the Sunday and show jumping on the holiday Monday. Unfortunately,
this very occasionally clashes with the traditional Kentucky date, the
cross country for which has been the last Saturday in April since 1987.
It has now been agreed that in 2011 Badminton will run one week
earlier, i.e. 22-25 April, which, being the Easter weekend, will still
enable the event to climax on a bank holiday Monday. In 2016, Kentucky
in turn has agreed to run a week earlier than it otherwise would so
that Badminton can maintain their holiday Monday schedule.
Both Event Directors, Hugh Thomas and Janie Atkinson, salute the
agreement as demonstrating the good relationship between the leading
international events and being in the best interests of the sport of
eventing, which would not have been well served by a clash of two of
the three Rolex Grand Slam events or indeed two of the HSBC FEI Classic
Four Star Events.
Event Dates until 2016 are now as follows:
Mitsubishi Motors
Badminton Horse
Trials Rolex
Kentucky Three Day Event
2010 30 April - 3
May
22 - 25 April
2011 22
- 25 April
28 April - 1 May
2012 4 - 7
May 26
- 29 April
2013 3 - 6
May
25 - 28 April
2014 2 - 5
May
24 - 27 April
2015 1 - 4
May
23 - 26 April
2016 29 April - 2
May 21 - 24
April
