Burghley
Horse Trials
It was in 1961 that the Marquess of Exeter, on hearing that the autumn three-day event at Harewood could no longer be held, invited the British Horse Society to transfer the event to his estate. In its second year, 1962, Burghley ran the F.E.I.'s European Championship and this was the beginning of a remarkable record. No other international horse trials site has staged as many Championships, a record ten in all including the first World Championship in 1966.
Cheltenham
Races
There has been racing at Cheltenham since 1815, when, 27 years after George III transformed Cheltenham from sleepy country town into fashionable Spa resort, the first meeting was held on Nottingham Hill, above Bishops Cleeve. It was an inauspicious affair, and three years passed before the first official meeting on nearby Cleeve Hill took place on August 25, 1818.
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