Another withdrawal gives final pair on Badminton Horse Trials wait list a chance to compete
The final horse on the Mars Badminton Horse Trials wait list has been accepted to start this week’s five-star competition (7-11 May), following a late withdrawal.
New Zealand’s Tayla Mason, who was last on the wait list, will make her Badminton debut with her own, her mother Sonya, brother Kyle and Sue Rutter’s Centennial, after the withdrawal of Switzerland’s Nadja Minder with Toblerone.
The original published deadline for entries to replace withdrawals from the Badminton Horse Trials wait list was 2pm yesterday (Sunday, 4 May). But yesterday, event director Jane Tuckwell told Tayla she would be accepted if anyone withdrew before noon on Tuesday, 6 May, paving the way for the New Zealand rider to start at the event now that the Swiss pair have had to pull out.
Tayla and Centennial were originally 14th on the wait list, so the rider could justifiably have expected to be given a chance to start at the event when entries were originally published. Between 14 and 43 pairs have been accepted from the wait list since this entries system was brought in in 2008.
But the number of withdrawals has been notably small this year, perhaps because the good weather and conditions this spring have meant riders have been able to give horses the required preparation runs for Badminton.
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