Badminton Horse Trials 6-10 May 2026

Badminton Horse trials, Grass Root competition 6/7 May.

A wonderful experience watching my god daughter being placed 4th in the 100 competition.

Vast majority of officials were friendly & helpful. the Stall holders were also very amiable , toilet facilities appeared plentiful, but Because of the crowds on 7th… many were over “subscribed” & found wanting late afternoon… . ( room for improvement?….through staff monitoring?)

Weather was fab… so everyone appeared to be having a wonderful time.

Only disappointment was misdirection by paid employees assuring us that after the cross country ,event, we could walk along the road leading from Badminton House to the luckington lane, as a member of our party was on crutches and we wanted to take the shortest route back to our cars parked in the car park field , wher “grass root” supporters had parked on Monday/ Tuesday. On reaching the gate , 2 steward type individuals, padlocked the gate and made it impossible to exit, just as we were approaching… very disappointing, as we had been directed that way because one of our part of 12 was using crutches after major knee surgery.

Fortunately in overall scheme of things it did not blight our day.

& we Hope to attend next year.

Great experience

Fantastic day

My First time at Badminton this year 2023/7th May 2023 XC DAY. Arrived in Badminton at 9.30am 3 miles from the grounds for parking and it took my 4 hours in all the traffic , i got parked on a field miles away from the entrance at 1.37pm which waisted most of my day and i missed half the horses/riders.

Needs a lot more better managing of entering and parking for the volume of tickets sold on XC day.

Traffic management was worse than usual this year. Why oh why not have more than one entry and exit for the public? The Saturday queue was interminable.

The members enclosure was too far from the action on both dressage and show jumping day.

You really must do better.