Jonelle Price celebrates her victory with Classic Moet at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2018. Photo / GettyFormer champion New Zealand's Jonelle Price is shocked organisers have made the decision to cancel the Badminton Horse Trials for the second straight year in England. The event from May 5 to 9 is widely regarded as the pinnacle of three-day eventing and is one of six annual horse trials that is graded as CCI5*, the highest level of International Equestrian Federation competition. The Badminton Horse Trials have been running since 1949 and this is the seventh time they have not been held. The other five-star events on the calendar are the Burghley Horse Trials, the Kentucky Three-Day event in the United States, the Australian International Three-Day event, the Luhmuhlen Horse Trials in Germany, and the Stars of Pau in France.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 01, 2021 22:21 UTC