Burghley Horse Trials 2024

With over 173,000 visitors over the four days, more than 600 carefully selected exhibitors, an average of 80 of the world’s top competitors, 21st century Burghley Horse Trials is a far cry from the inaugural event, which took place 60 years ago with just 19 competitors and in front of a mere 12,000 people. Gladwell & Patterson are delighted to be a part of Burghley Horse Trials 2024 for a third year and are planning a spectacle for visitors to enjoy at our stands commanding position.

Eventing came to the magnificent Elizabethan parkland surrounding Burghley House in 1961 by accident rather than design, after the Marquess of Exeter, a keen equestrian, heard the three-day event at Harewood was to be cancelled. He invited the British Horse Society to transfer the event to his estate in a move which was to prove the start of a remarkable journey. Today the event has become one of the most popular and highly regarded within the equestrian and social calendars and ranks within the UK’s top ten national sporting occasions by attendance.

Burghley Horse Trials is one of only seven CCI 5* events worldwide, the star rating denoting the highest standard of event (technically and administratively) and the most challenging test of horse and rider. We are accomanying this high stanard with the highest standard of fine art and sculpture by world renowned artists.