Photo of Jif and Camilla at Badminton by Esma Finalist Nico Morgan – please vote for him now here!
Blugal left a comment on the original piece about Camilla and Jif asking about his breeding, which I relayed to her, and Camilla very kindly and very promptly replied,
“He is by conemara ‘grade A’ show jumping pony ‘Crosskeys Rebel’, out of a thoroughbred mare. We bought him when I was 13 years old to do pony classes on. I already had a junior horse for Europeans but jif was to do me for ponies as I was still young. When he was 5 he measured out but only by a teeny tiny bit. We felt he was scopey enough to do juniors so we kept him and that year at the Europeans he finished 13th at only 6 years old…. We knew then that he was going to be a star! I haven’t heard of any others by the sire but I do have one of my own; he is out of a Monjeu mare and by the same sire, and I’m really excited about him also!”
Many thanks to Camilla, and to Blugal. Good luck to Camilla with Jif, and his relations, how exciting! Please vote for Nico Morgan, and Eventing Nation, and me (!) in the Esma finals if you think we deserve it, and Go Eventing!
