HARRY & GEORGE HEMINGWAY
By my own admission, I do not attend as many youth trials as I would like to. Having been friends for many years with the Hemingway family brothers Dan and Ben and their parents John and Janet, I have always followed their careers with interest. Both of them have enjoyed some superb results at home and abroad and spent many years chasing world championship honours, but they never fulfilled their ambition at this level, much to their disappointment. Roll the clock forward, and a new generation from the Hemingway breed is coming along nicely who may well fill their riding boots better than they ever did. The two sons of Dan and Emma, Harry and George, are looking like a huge trials talent, and with his brother Ben on hand for minding duties, the future looks like it’s a trials one.
Talk about cold; it was indeed that when I found myself just before Christmas heading up to the Hemingway home, which is around 30 minutes from Leeds. Dad, Dan, had rung me to say he was about ten minutes away from home but ‘when you arrive, find the boys and ask them to put the kettle on’!
As I pulled onto their icy drive, I could see two young boys all wrapped up and out and about, one fetching some coal in and the other checking the logs were all okay ready for the cold weekend that had been forecast. As I put my van window down it was the elder son Harry who came over and asked if I wanted a brew; with a quick ‘park your van up and follow me’ we headed into the warmth of the family home and the kitchen followed by George just as Dan turned up.
With a decent cup of Yorkshire tea in my hand, it was time to find out a little more about these two young boys and their trials life so far.