Preparing For The Chaos Of The January Sales

More Meetings!

November & December have been busy months at Badminton – lots of meetings about the ‘behind the scenes’ organisation, some fence building, the appointment of contractors – mostly the same but some new – and preparations for the usually chaotic January, when the Box Office opens, Trade Stands are finalised and the New Year brings thoughts of Spring!

One of the most important contractors for visitors is undoubtedly the firm that provides and services the loos! Here we are making a change to Portable Toilets Ltd, who have vast experience at music festivals but whose first big equestrian event this will be – lets hope they hit the ground running in April. Our site manager Harry Verney does the same job at numerous other events around the country – festivals, motor sport etc – so he was able to advise which firms might be able to cope with our large cowds.

Live Online Coverage of Badminton Horse Trials 2010

Well, Badminton week has finally arrived and its all busy, busy, busy down in the deer park. The office seems to have moved almost lock, stock & barrel to it's temporary location on site (now where did I put those scissors?). There's barely time to stop for a quick blog or tweet, but as those nice people over at Horse & Country TV have just finalised the technical details for our 'live Badminton Horse Trials international online broadcast'  (sounds very posh) we just couldn't wait to tell you all about it.

For those of you outside the UK, cross country day will be broadcast live online courtesy of Horse & Country TV. Coverage starts at 10:50 BST (that's UK time) and finishes around 17:00 BST so set your alarm clocks, reminders and tie a knot in your hanky because you won't want to miss this!

For those of you IN the UK there is of course live coverage on BBC TV:

Sunday 2nd May  11am – 5pm   Cross Country live on Red Button
Monday 3rd May  12.35 pm – 2.15 pm BBC 2 – Cross Country Highlights

                          5.55pm – 6.30pm BBC 2 – Show Jumping

As in previous years we'll also be bringing you plenty of photos, video clips, news, views and interviews from the event as it happens. Results on the website are also up to the minute, so if you're not fortunate enough to make it on site for what is bound to be one of the best  Badminton's yet, at least you can follow all of the action from the comfort of your PC, mobile phone or other fancy internet enabled device.

More on all of the ways to stay informed later.....

ahh, there's my scissors!