Rosalind Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO win Defender Burghley Horse Trials 2024
Ros Canter celebrates victory in the 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials on LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO
Ros Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO jump the last fence to win the 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials
Ros Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO gallop under Lion Bridge at Burghley in 2024
Ros Canter with the Defender Burghley Trophy at Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
8th September 2024, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.
Rosalind Canter celebrates her victory at The Defender Burghley Horse Trials 202f on LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO.
LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO (Results)
Gender: Gelding
Foaled: 2012
Height: 17
Sire: GRAFENSTOLZ
Dam: CORNISH GREEN
Sire of Dam: ROCK KING
Owner(s): Michele Saul, Archie 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. They followed this up with victory in the 2024 Defender Burghley Horse Trials, where this combination lay in second after dressage behind Ros’s other ride IZILOT DHI and added only two time penalties in the showjumping phase.
She is sponsored by Emerald Green Foods, a local Market Rasen company.
Notable Results for Ros Canter and LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO
2024
Burghley CCI5*-L – 1st
Paris Olympics – 21st and Team Gold.
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