MARS BADMINTON
Dressage
FEW people were delighted with their dressage marks, with many of those at the sharp end feeling they deserved a few more points. William Fox-Pitt, who slotted into equal eighth with Grafennacht, described the judges as “stingy”.
But to their credit, the ground jury – British president Sandy Phillips, the USA's Jane Hamlin and Austria's Christian Steiner – held their standard and did not fling marks around on Friday. Additionally, and unusually, there wasn't a rush of star horses at the end and the eventual top 10 came from all
