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Dates swap for major 2024 events confirmed
Horse & Hound
|May 25, 2023
Badminton and Royal Windsor are switching dates owing to 'exceptional' circumstances related to BBC scheduling
BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS and Royal Windsor Horse Show are to swap their traditional dates next year, owing to “exceptional circumstances” relating to BBC scheduling of Badminton.
The organisers of Windsor announced last week that the 2024 event will run from Wednesday to Sunday, 1–5 May. Badminton will run exactly a week later, from Wednesday to Sunday, 8–12 May.
This story is from the May 25, 2023 edition of Horse & Hound.
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