Melanie Round and Cobrino Cruise, one of the successful Guernsey senior team members. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1174335)

THE fifth and last day of BS Guernsey’s Horse of the Year Show drew a capacity crowd in beautiful sunshine to watch the final leg of the junior and senior team jumping at Chemin Le Roi on Sunday afternoon.

With a technically challenging track designed by UK course builder David Conway, there was all to play for in the junior section with Guernsey having only a four-fault advantage over their Jersey rivals.

A shock early elimination for Georgia Renouf (Irish Lethal Weapon) when missing out a jump put maximum pressure on her three teammates to perform but faultless jumping from Catherine Gaudion (Attyrory Cushy), Georgie Prow (Vellum’s Dream) and captain Freddie Best (Gew Trogan) brought triumph over the Jersey side who found the course that bit too testing, with all but one rider picking up jumping faults.

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