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When Marjorie Stratton received a phone call to say she had won the Ifor Williams Trailers horsebox in a national competition she was bemused, because she had forgotten that she had even submitted an entry.
The two-horse trailer worth about £4,000 was offered in the magazine Horse and Hound of which Marjorie is an avid reader.
"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."
The HB506 is one of the most popular models in the wide range of Ifor Williams Trailers, Europe’s largest trailer manufacturers, with its twin axles, partition separating two horses up to 16.2hh.
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 yardful 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.
"I’m delighted that it’s been won by a local person and it’s a pleasure to be able to supply it," he said.
"The HB506 is undoubtedly a very popular model and it looks particularly good in silver."
Nigel Hammond, National Accounts Manager (South) for Ifor Williams Trailers, said he was also pleased that a satisfied company customer would be getting a new trailer.
"I understand that there was a huge response to the competition, which shows how popular the trailers are, so Marjorie is a very lucky woman," he said.
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