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Sam Twiston Davies - Racing Aintree 2007

WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS 

TO:

SAM TWISTON-DAVIES, WILLY TWISTON-DAVIES

AND JESS BENFIELD

Sam Twiston-Davies pictured above on his 148cm pony Otterburn Lady winning the final of the 148cm pony racing series at Aintree on 27th October.

Sam did brilliantly winning the Final of the 148cms Pony Racing at Aintree on his young pony, Otterburn Lady.  When Sam first got Otterburn Lady she had  only been broken for a year, was totally green and had not yet learnt to race.  Cathy (Sam's mother) and Sam are extremely grateful to Celia Holman for all her help that she put into Sam and Otterburn Lady to get them going so well. 

 The win was well deserved and Sam was without doubt the fittest boy in the race.  For 6 weeks before the Final both Sam and his brother Willy (who was 3rd in his race on Sparky Boy) got up very early every morning and ran up the gallops 4 or 5 times to get themselves fit, they then mucked out and were back in the house ready to leave for school by 7.30am.     Cathy is incredibly proud of her boys and their achievements and all the hard work they put in.   

Also many congratulations to Jess Benfield who rode in the 138cms final on  Red Pepper.