WHILE the Branch’s Junior boys and girls’ teams were winning at the national Tetrathlon championships in Crecora, the Ward Union recorded another double on Monday at the Irish Pony Club / Connolly’s Red Mills eventing qualifier at Corbeagh House, Longford.

The Wards struck first in the three-runner Open class through Emily Cosgrove and the nine-year-old bay mare Clonross Razzmatazz who won the EI90 Amateur championships at Tattersalls in 2015 and has been show jumping in the interim.

The double was completed in the following 16-runner Intermediate class through Katie Byrne and her five-year-old Kings Master mare Queens Master who, last August, was produced by Byrne to win the riding horse championship at the Dublin Horse Show. The combination finished sixth in an EI90 class at Killossery Lodge Stud in early June.

The Longford Branch, which hosted this event, were also on the mark twice. First, in the Novice Intermediate through Thomas Whyte and Ardagh Ebony, a home-bred four-year-old mare by Jackaroo, and then, in the Junior Starter class by Rachel McGrath on board the 14-year-old show jumping mare Murloughdale Dark Moon.

Not to be outdone, the Westmeath Branch was also represented by two winners at Corbeagh House – the Niall Whelehan-partnered Dunlewey Seamus (a 19-year-old grey by Monaghanstown Fred) in the Junior class and the Kevin Healy-ridden Fortmill Abel Diamond, a seven-year-old mare by Manninard Abel.