CARLOW’s Tiggy Hancock continues to take the eventing world by storm and the 14-year-old recorded a double with her two rides at Lisgarvan last Sunday.

Hancock’s all-the-way victory in the EI110 (P) on her mother Jane’s Monarch Of The Glen brought the pony to the attention of the Equiratings’ team. They highlighted on their Facebook page that, having returned to Eventing Ireland competition this season following a five-year absence, the 17-year-old brown gelding has now notched up five wins in-a-row, a record which few high-grade horses have achieved.

None of the seven starters in that class posted a clear show jumping round but six of the 10 did in the EI100 (P) where, despite being a second over the time across the country, Hancock took the honours with Anne Magee’s Connemara mare, Foxtrot Treacle, a dun by Grange Finian Sparrow. This was Tiggy’s third EI outing on the eight-year-old and her first at this level; they won the EI90 (P) here on their debut in July.

As the Irish Pony Club/Connolly’s Red Mills eventing league was cancelled this year, many members decided to try their hand in Eventing Ireland company and two of these took the top placings in Sunday’s EI90 (P). Victory went to the Wicklow Branch’s Skyla Nally riding Linda McGuirk’s Mayfield Boy (27) with the Westmeaths’ Carla Williamson placing second on Oh Dakota Justice (28.5).

In the first of two Junior classes, the EI110, it was another Westmeath rider, Chloe Fagan, who recorded a two-point, all-the-way win on her father Mark’s ex-racehorse, Loughnavalley, a 10-year-old Primary gelding. On her second outing with her mother Kate’s 2010 Ballinaboy Tom gelding Ballymotey Casper, Amelia McQuade landed the EI100 (J) on her dressage score.