Today was the first day of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. Burghley is my favorite of the overseas events because they do such a fantastic job of televising it. Burghley TV is free — and you can watch it on demand.

Get a rider’s eye view of the event in the “fly through”

Take a fence-by-fence tour with Captain Mark Phillips.

Take a good close look at those gigantic fences!

And watch how those brave event horses — the ones about to jump those gigantic fences — are spooked by a few flower boxes during the initial jog.