Everything you need to know from dressage day two
Ros Canter leads by the largest margin at Badminton on record and there were personal bests flying all the way down the leaderboard.
Ros Canter & Lordships Graffalo head into cross-country day with a 4.4-penalty lead: the largest leading margin after dressage at Badminton on record.
Their score of 23.7 earns a full 20 points in Eventing Manager and puts them 4.4 ahead of overnight leader Tiana Coudray & Cancaras Girl in second. It is only the second time Ros and Walter have led after dressage at a five-star. The first was Badminton 2023 which became their first CCI5* win together.
Tiana Coudray & Cancaras Girl hold second on 28.1 - their international personal best, and Tiana's best five-star test in 15 years, set on day one.
Third is Lara de Liedekerke-Meier & Hooney D'Arville on 28.6. A five-star personal best for the Belgian, and more than three marks better than their previous best together at Luhmuhlen which made Lara the first-ever Belgian rider to win a 5*.
In sixth is Marcio Carvalho & Jorge & Royal Encounter on 29.2 - the best dressage test by a Brazilian rider at Badminton in the modern era, and the joint third best five-star dressage score by a Brazilian in the history of the sport.
Will Rawlin & Ballycoog Breaker Boy sit seventh on 29.3, their second consecutive sub-30 test at five-star and Will's best ever test at Badminton.
Wills Oakden & Keep It Cooley had a good day to score a 29.4. It is a five-star personal best by more than five penalties.
With 61 results in, the field average sits at 35.0 against an average 6RA of 33.7, 1.3 penalties behind the average. Cross-country day is next.