How to ride the hickstead derby

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Two-time Burghley winner Pippa Funnell walks this year’s track, assessing the impact of the route being reversed for the first time in some years

AGRIA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2023 Derby winner returns to the winner’s enclosure and a 12-year-old rider makes his mark with a “back-to-school treat”

A true Burghley cross-country day, over a significantly changed track, yields just one round inside the time and plenty of drama

A high clear rate sets the stage for an easy victory for Lordships Graffalo, while others play snakes and ladders

ONLY IN HORSE & HOUND

Two-time Burghley winner Pippa Funnell walks this year’s track, assessing the impact of the route being reversed for the first time in some years

AGRIA EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2023 Derby winner returns to the winner’s enclosure and a 12-year-old rider makes his mark with a “back-to-school treat”

A true Burghley cross-country day, over a significantly changed track, yields just one round inside the time and plenty of drama

A high clear rate sets the stage for an easy victory for Lordships Graffalo, while others play snakes and ladders

ONLY IN HORSE & HOUND