Hundreds attend Tetrathlon Championships

More than 300 Pony Club members took part in this year’s Tetrathlon Championships, including forty Members from the Irish Pony Club who were invited to make the long trip to Bishop Burton College in Yorkshire (13-16 August).

Four phases

Pony Club tetrathlon is based on modern pentathlon, with points accumulated across the four phases of shooting, swimming, running and cross-country riding.

The Open Individual Boys section was won for the second year running by Christopher Harris from the Four Burrow Hunt Branch (4,574).

The Open Boys Team section went to Gordon Shannon, David Brickley and brothers John and Jamie Carroll (11,360 points) from Laois Branch in Southern Ireland.

In the Open Individual Girls competition, the top slot went to Mollie Hansford from the Cotley Hunt Branch (4,292 points). Natalie Phillips and sisters Alice and Frances Elgar from the Wilton Hunt Branch took the Girls Team honours (10,330).

Other results

Intermediate Girls Team: Newmarket & Thurlow Hunt, Sarah Howlett, Ellie Berisford, Zoe Watson and Belinda Dow

Intermediate Individual Girls: Sadie Abel from the South Durham Hunt

Intermediate Boys Team: South Northumberland, Jack Clarkson and brothers William and Matthew Quinn

Individual Intermediate Boys: last year’s Junior winner Jack Stephens from the Brecon & Talybont Hunt

Junior Girls Team section: Eglinton Hunt, Stephanie Craig, Katie Ritchie and sisters Sophie and Amber Steel

Junior Individual Girls: Emma Whitaker from Lancaster & District

Junior Boys Team: Ledbury Hunt, Arthur Townend, Harry Trotman and Matt Baker

Junior Boys Individual: Conor Dougall from Braes of Derwent South

Grassroots riders

Following lasts year’s successful pilot competition for grassroots riders, competitors from linked Pony Club Centres Tumpy Green and Naburn Grange fielded teams.

Top individual honours went to Tommy Pearson from Naburn Grange while the team event was won by Ned Secker, Isobel Lewis, Rebecca Cross and Jamie Lessels from Tumpy Green.