A Heart Wrenching Unlucky Parting Of Company For George Hilton-Jones And Efraim

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This is is a truly unlucky story for this combination as they were going so so well.

They set off steady , Efraim was jumping lovely. though they looked a bit a bit steady through the combination in the arena, The Land Rover Fountain,   looked much more positive through Discovery Valley at fence 5ab and made it look effortless a real good piece of riding from George. They took the long route at the Holland Coper Leaf Pit and Efraim looked rather keen but they got through that combination well. After that we didn’t see much of the pair until the Maltings where Efraim was so genuine through the Joules Malting and despite hitting the rail on the second oxer though not breaking a pin didn’t lose confidence and jumped the corner out well! A lovely lovely horse !! To say I was relieved to see them through that combination was an understatement especially after seeing what carnage it had caused.

They got a great jump over the Cottesmore Leap and then this was were they were so unlucky I cannot even put into words how I felt for them,  they jumped the first part of the combination of the Keepers Brushes but the stud or shoe caught in the martingale causing Efraim to struggle to getting his foot out for landing tough he did eventually it was unfortunately too late and this put George out the front door – this was a freak accident and it was heart wrenching to see these two get eliminated as they had been going great guns up to this point , but what potential these two have for the future and I am sure we will see them back out next year here!

We have had such a good day today. Just ended a little earlier than we expected. Leo was so responsive through out the course. We had a great start, all to plan. We planned to do the long route at the leaf pit and was very happy with how it went. I had to take an unexpected long route at the last part of the Maltings. We had a great shot in to the first part, then I cut the corner a little to the second part and got a little close. So had a quick decision to go long for the last part. Everything after that went to plan until we jumped the fence after the Cottesmore leap. We got the stride bob on but on landing we stumbled. On watching back he got a stud caught in his breastplate so landed on three legs. So unfortunately we stumbled for two strides and I popped off. Very very frustrating as he was flying but he is none the worse for wear. But he has shown what a class horse he is even with some pilot errors.

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