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Matt didn't ride Peter last night - he is lame.  He rode another horse & did horrendously badly in the first round.

Anna shouldn't have been voted off last night - she was the far better rider of the two and had improved a lot since the beginning of the week - indeed she was the first person to attempt going up a level this week and was riding at advanced whilst Matt had to drop down a level to intermediate.

Sara Cox is bound to win the competition now; not only is she a pretty good rider (she has certainly improved and isn't quite as compalcent as she was earlier in the week) but she has the Radio 1 listeners & now the CA voting for her - the horse she is riding, Solomon, is a regular out with the Oakley hunt and is owned by the hunt's farrier.

I can't really have Matt now - after looking pretty good early on he has since proved that he can look good whilst everything goes to plan but he can't handle it when things go wrong - he rode a shocker of a round last night & should never have let his horse stop at that first fence he refused.

Diarmuid really should go tonight - I would say Jenni but she appears to have the GMTV viewers all voting for her which is saving her at the moment.  She isn't too bad but I would have seen her go last night if it was up to me.  Diarmuid is improving but he still rides with hands like shovels & his elbows up in the air. 

I also agree that Nicki may be the fly in the ointment to Sara, she has improved considerably and is trying her best.  She's actually a good little rider too, she would be more of a horseman than any of the others and anticipates possible problems better than the rest too.  She must have been pretty shaken up after her nasty fall the other night but she rode brilliantly last night.