Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO winning Badminton Horse Trials
Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO during the Show Jumping phase, Badminton Horse Trials, Gloucestershire UK 8 May 2023
Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO during the Cross Country phase, Badminton Horse Trials, Gloucestershire UK 7 May 2023
Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO - Vets Inspection, Badminton Horse Trials, Gloucestershire UK 4 May 2023
8th May 2023, Gloucestershire.
Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO have just won the Mars Equestrian sponsored Badminton Horse Trials by a record margin and are celebrating with the crowd on a wet day in Gloucestershire.
See also: Rosalind Canter and PENCOS CROWN JEWEL, Rosalind Canter and IZILOT DHI
LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO BREEDING (Results)
Gender: Gelding
Foaled: 2012
Height: 17
Sire: GRAFENSTOLZ
Dam: CORNISH GREEN
Sire of Dam: ROCK KING
Owner(s): Michele Saul
Rosalind Canter
Ros Canter grew up on the family farm in Hallington, Lincolnshire. She has a degree in sports science from Sheffield Hallam University.
Canter’s CCI **** results include finishing fifth at the 2017 Badminton Horse Trials on ALLSTAR B, and ninth at the 2017 Luhmühlen Horse Trials on ZENSHERA. She then won team gold and finished fifth individually at the 2017 European Eventing Championships on Allstar B, before finishing seventh at the 2017 Etoiles de Pau on ZENSHERA. In May 2018, she finished third at the Badminton Horse Trials on ALLSTAR B.
Canter won two golds at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, riding Allstar B. She is the fifth British rider to become World Champion in Eventing, after Mary Gordon-Watson (1970), Lucinda Green (1982), Virginia Leng (1986), and Zara Phillips (2006).
Speaking on The Eventing Podcast’s episode “Horses to watch 2023” in early 2023, Irish Olympian Sam Watson opined that Lordships Graffalo would inevitably become the highest-rated British event horse of all time.
In May 2023, LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO and Ros Canter led The Mars Equestrian Badminton Horse Trials from start to finish to win with a record victory margin of 15 penalties.
Notable Results for Ros Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO
Lordships Graffalo was 3rd at the Lincolnshire AI on March 17, 2023.
2023
Badminton CCI5*-L – 1st
2022
Pratoni del Vivaro CCI4*-L – 4th
Hartpury CCI4*-S – 2nd
Badminton CCI5*-L – 2nd
2021
Blenheim CCI4*-L – 2nd
Blair CCI4*-S – 1st
Bicton CCI4*-L – 2nd
Aston-Le-Walls CCI4*-S – 1st
2020
Burnham Market CCI4*-S 8/9YO – 2nd