Fitting reception for retiring champions
Two horses which achieved great success with their riders and for Australia were formally retired at this year's Badminton Horse Trials.
Lucinda Fredericks’ Headley Britannia and Paul Tapner’s Inonothing received a rousing reception on the final day of competition at the Badminton Horse Trials when they completed one final lap of honour with fellow retiree Caroline Powell’s Lenamore.
Both Headley Britannia and Inonothing are former winners of this event and they were fittingly afforded one last chance to appear at the historic venue in front of an adorning audience.
Fredericks’ courageous mare was officially retired in March 2012 and would have been at last year’s event had it not been cancelled due to bad weather.
Among her long list of achievements, Headley Britannia was a member of Australia’s three-day event team which won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympic Games.
The 2007 winner of Badminton might be smaller than most elite event horses but what she lacks in size, she makes up with determination. She is one of only two horses in history to win three of the world’s top four-star events. In addition to winning Badminton she also won the 2006 Burghley Horse trials and Rolex Kentucky in 2009. She was the first mare in 53 years to win at Badminton.
As well as winning at Badminton in 2010, Inonothing represented Australia at the World Equestrian Games of the same year.
Inonothing amassed a huge career total of 1625 BE points, making him the 17th highest point scoring horse of all time. This achievement includes 61 top 10 placings from BE100 up to 4* with eight CCI4* completions. During his career he was 5th at Pau, 7th and 10th at Luhmuhlen, 6th and 9th at Burghley and 28th and 13th at Badminton. Not forgetting of course his greatest win which was at Badminton on his third time at the event in 2010.
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