The co-organiser of the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park, Captain Mark Phillips, said that the "unprecedented rainfall" over the last month had produced "exceptionally wet ground conditions".

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"I was financially better off not going to Hong Kong, " added Edge, who took the British Open at Gatcombe on Mayhem after her colleagues had left for the Games.

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