Horse box win for Keynsham boy's grandmother

By welland | Monday, March 15, 2010, 11:14

FOUR horse-loving youngsters from near Keynsham will benefit from their grandmother winning a £4,000 two-horse trailer.

Marjorie Stratton with new trailer presented by Tim Card (left, Devizes Trailers) and Nigel Hammond (Ifor Williams Trailers).

When Marjorie Stratton received a phone call to say she had won the Ifor Williams Trailers horsebox in a Horse and Hound magazine competition she was bemused, because she had forgotten that she had even submitted an entry.

She said: “I can’t really remember what one had to do, but I know it didn’t need a lot of brain-power,” she joked. “But I remember thinking I could do with a new trailer.

“I enter hardly any competitions and so it was an ever bigger surprise.”

It is not only Marjorie who will benefit as the win means that she will now be able to pass her 20-year-old Ifor Williams trailer on to her four grandchildren, Henry, eight, Meg, seven, Finnola, six, and George, four, all of whom ride the same pony. They live at Roger and Marjorie’s former home, the family farm at Burnett, near Keynsham.

“My husband and I used to have a big lorry but when the children left home we downsized and had a trailer instead. It’s served us very well for about 20 years, and we still go hunting two or three days a week,” she said.

“We used to have a yard full of horses but I now have just the one.

“The 506 is the ideal trailer for our current needs and it looks very smart in grey,” she added.

The trailer was delivered to the Strattons’ smallholding in Marshfield, near Chippenham, by Tim Card, of Ifor Williams Trailers’s local distributors, Devizes Trailer Centre.