{"id":29286,"date":"2016-09-03T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=29286"},"modified":"2017-02-10T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:59:28","slug":"christopher-grabs-burghley-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2016\/09\/christopher-grabs-burghley-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher grabs Burghley lead"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you are hot, you are very hot,\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Burton \u00a0is in the lead at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials with a score of\u00a030.2 (!!!) on Nobilis. Christopher is now\u00a04.3 penalties in front of\u00a0first-day leader Bettina Hoy.<\/div>\n
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\"CHRISTOPHER<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Christopher and Nobilis<\/em><\/div>\n
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Andrew Nicholson showed he has recovered from his broken neck and is in\u00a0third place on Nereo, with the excellent mark of 35.2.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\"ANDREW<\/a><\/div>\n
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But the other Aussies are doing well,\u00a0\u00a0The Blue Frontier, ridden by dual Burghley winner Andrew Hoy in on 38.3 while\u00a0Sam Griffiths on the 17-year-old Happy Times and is in eighth place on 39.6.<\/div>\n
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\"SAM<\/a><\/div>\n
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\"BILL<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Levett and Improvise are 12 on 42.5.<\/p>\n

\"SHANE<\/a><\/p>\n

Shane Rose and Virgil are 13th on 45.1.<\/p>\n

\"SONJA<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonja Johnson and Parkiarrup Illicit Liaison is just behind them on 46.9.<\/p>\n

Seventy horses completed the Dressage; Rodolphe Scherer (FRA) was eliminated when the Ground Jury decided that Makara de Montiege looked unlevel.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Photos – Trevor Holt<\/h3>\n
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Results after Dressage<\/strong><\/div>\n
1 Christopher Burton\/Nobilis 18 (AUS) 30.2<\/div>\n
2 Bettina Hoy\/Designer 10 (GER) 34.5<\/div>\n
3 Andrew Nicholson\/Nereo (NZL) 35.2<\/div>\n
4 Caroline Powell\/Onwards and Upwards (NZL) 37.8<\/div>\n
5 Oliver Townend\/MHS King Joules (GBR) 38.1<\/div>\n
6 Andrew Hoy\/Blue Frontier (AUS) 38.3<\/div>\n
7 Tim Price\/Ringwood Sky Boy (NZL) 38.9<\/div>\n
8 Sam Griffiths\/Happy Times (AUS) 39.6<\/div>\n
9 Blyth Tait\/Bear Necessity V (NZL) 40.0<\/div>\n
10 Sir Mark Todd\/NZB Campino (NZL) 42.2<\/div>\n
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When you are hot, you are very hot,\u00a0\u00a0Christopher Burton \u00a0is in the lead at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials with a score of\u00a030.2 (!!!) on Nobilis. Christopher is now\u00a04.3 penalties in front of\u00a0first-day leader Bettina Hoy. \u00a0Christopher and Nobilis Andrew Nicholson showed he has recovered from his broken neck and is in\u00a0third place on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[517,249],"class_list":["post-29286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-burghley-horse-trials","tag-christopher-burton"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32322,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions\/32322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}