Date for 2012 - Badminton Park on Sunday 23rd September 2012

by kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Beaufort

• The Duchess of Beaufort presented Horses Help Heroes a cheque for £5,500 . - The cheque, see below, was received by paramedic Jackie El Tawil, who drove the ambulance much of the way and Dr Francis Atkinson of 16 Medical Regt, RAMC, who was also a member of the team and was himself wounded in Afghanistan.
  For information Horses Help Heroes earlier in the summer completed the challenge of driving a horse drawn replica World War 1 Ambulance from Lands End to John o` Groat`s to raise money for Help for Heroes to distribute to various service charities such as BLESMA (British limbless ex service personnel), Combat Stress and the Soldiers Charity, the ABF to help our wounded service personnel, in particular those returning from the current conflict in Afghanistan.
• Results
  1st Nikki Clarkson raised £500.00 and won Badminton Horse Trials Tickets + £5 voucher towards next year`s Ride
  2nd Pam Thomlinson raised £341.50 and won Badminton Horse Trials Tickets + £5 voucher as above
  3rd Sarah Gibson raised £298.18 and won Badminton Horse Trials Tickets + £5 voucher as above
  4th Penny Hind raised £238.50 and won a voucher for the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe 2012 + £5 voucher as above
  5th Amy Bartholomew raised £188.00 and won a day`s hunting for 2 with the Glamorgan Hunt +£5 voucher as above
  6th James Bywater raised £150.00 and won a day`s hunting for 2 with the Duke of Beaufort’s Hounds +£5 voucher as above
  7th Mary Brown raised £140.00 and won a £5 voucher as above
  8th Rebecca Francis raised £133.00 and won a £5 voucher as above
  9th June Davies raised £130.50 and won £5 voucher as above
  10th Ian Plumb raided £122.50 won voucher as above
  14 yrs and under 14 winner: Natalie Barrett won a voucher from saddlers, Grant Barnes of Malmesbury.
• Photos of the Ride can be purchased from www.ttlvideos.com
• Comments
  "I just wanted to say thank you for such an enjoyable, well-organised event as Badminton" - Leigh
  "Very much enjoyed ride. Thank you to everyone for their hard work. So lucky with the weather." - Mary
  "Thank you very much for organizing such a brilliant fun ride, it was horse's first one and he loved it. The jumps were great and the route was fantastic too. I can't wait fornext year's ride." - Emily
  “I was delighted to receive your kind letter with the wonderful news that I have won 2nd prize and the voucher towards next years' ride. I had a wonderful ride on the day, which my friend talked me into as I have a new horse which I have had a lot of difficulties with and have been completely re-schooling her. I took my old horse on the ride a few times (I was lucky enough to have her for 21 years) but never thought I would take this one. She was actually very good and I feel I am making some real progress with her (12 months on). Many thanks for a lovely day to you plus all the other organisers, stewards, etc.“ Kind regards, Pam
• Cross Country course built by FBI Jumps - Click for information.