Ride Badminton | On Board With Paul Tapner 

What a brave, honest horse, excellent!

My god .. These riders are fearless.. But now feel a bit sick ..lol

Hi from Melbourne, Australia. I used to ride (just galloping around a farm on an ex polo pony and trying to out run the swooping magpie each spring) and cannot get over how big these jumps are the talent that horse and rider have. I have just Googled Paul and saw that he has won a Badminton. Well bloody done! We never hear of Australian horse achievements , or about our NZ cousins either which is very annoying as they deserve recognition for their efforts. Instead we hear for a week about an AFL player who’s stubbed their toe and will be out for a month…..Anyway, well done to all Aussies and Kiwis who are overseas champions, not only the horsey ones but to all the others who do well internationally that we never hear about. ❤

Wow, i wasn't expecting this to be this interesting but the commentary is very interesting and i couldn't keep my eyes off the screen! Fab!

People who say that the rider just sits there and does nothing should watch this...

Like the centered helmet cam much better than those off to one side! Definitely learned the importance of choosing visual markers for jumping lines by watching this!

Hoping you wore a head cam this year (2014) - it is Saturday eve after XC and your are sitting in first (whoo hoo!!) - good luck for stadium tomorrow !! Thanks so much for taking us along for the ride!!

That was exciting! What a good horse...and rider!!

These courses are breathtaking, must feel like you're flying over these jumps, riding a horse like that 😏

Absolutely fabulous to watch. Thank you

The combination in the lake had me absolutely flabbergasted with the turns and height and width.

Gave me a whole different perspective on how long the horse and rider are at full gallop with immense, difficult jumps coming up. Wow!!!

Wow what a ride and the view.. luv the play by play... great video and fun to watch.. thanks !!!

Great ride. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! Thanks for sharing that!

Really enjoyed watching that! Wish I could do that!!

This was absolutely fantastic to watch, thank you so much for sharing. Great ride and well done to both horse and rider :)

Holy crap.. more awesome than I can even say..

what a great video -- can't believe i'd never seen it before. love Paul's analysis!

I love your overview of your ride

Sending best wishes to Paul, saddened to hear of your fall...

This is so much help for me, thankyou so much!

Paul Tapner's daughter is in my class 🐎🐎🐎

This was really interesting, very useful for any rider!

Awesome filming !!!!! Everything is massive, massive or huge :-)

They are vast...I am 5'8'' and can barely see over the tops [spectator] they appear much bigger in reality than they do here. Not only are they vast, but wide, and technically difficult. Takes a superb horse and rider to do well :)

wow... who else felt liek they could here the horses hooves,pounding,its mane,whipping your face,and then you realize your trying to do 2-point up the hills and keep your balance over the jumps?? XD

the roosterteeth song on the name screen!!!! but this was friggen awesome!!! holy crap

Awesome!!

Do we have the helmet cam footage for the other three riders? I'd love to hear what they had to say.

Tell us the fence dimensions-it would help hook more Americans on watching eventing. These are ginormous, intimidating obstacles-up to 4+ feet high and 6 feet wide-but the helmet cams and the horses make them look smaller. (The only time any camera anywhere makes anything looker SMALLER!) You’d never think some of these fences have six foot spreads unless you see an average human standing next to them. Americans don’t realize how brave you have to be to ride a horse at full gallop (20 mph??) towards a solid obstacle. Eventing is not for the faint of heart.

Those jumps look so much bigger in real life, even when you know they are big

Gotta admit it was very hot that day

amazing!i have just been to badminton 2013 are u there i will check again when i go later on the score boards well done poition was 9th at then end!great!:)

This was really useful! I'm just weird and got bothered by him looking off screen in the beginning... obviously to read his lines :P. Still very cool.

Most knarliest course i've ever seen

well done...nice vid

You are gorgeous with your commentary!

better ..... fantasticooo

I want to catch-ride Badminton. Believe I can. Prove me wrong. (not kidding) SERIOUSLY.

A great rider, a brave horse but what is his name? I did not pick up the name in the first 5 minutes.

Roughly how high are these fences please? x

i thought this was really badminton

Good job it was ride with Paul and not oliver Townsend

That horse saved your but

Fact is, more penalties these days for going too fast. True that. I miss old school eventing. War of attrition? Yup. Probably. But you cannot make a horse jump or gallop this way. It's a partnership. Who says otherwise has never ridden. Sorry Paul. Sometimes my virtual soap box gets in the way. Before cellphones, I rode collecting jump sheets from x-country back east--Ledyard, etc--and my 14 hand pony got so hopped up he was jumping Intermediare fences backward. Guess what I am trying to say to the novice viewer? When they want to, they WILL. JUST HANG ON

he's not very good at keeping in a rythm, no wonder the horse was tired