WE don’t know how fitting the description is, but the Wexford Wild Women won the Senior Girls’ team competition at last weekend’s Defender Irish Pony Club Tetrathlon championships in Punchestown and thus were presented with the Carew cup.

The quartet of Emma Hickey, Cora Finn, Sarah Finn and Hannah Hennessy Murphy posted a total of 11,694 points which didn’t give them too much of a margin of victory over the Kildare White trio of Ellie Dillon, Katie Dillon and Annabelle Dunne (11,658). The mixed trio of Co Limerick’s Jane Moloney, Offaly’s Lucy O’Rourke and Golden Vale’s Evelyn Fahey slotted into third on 11,522.

Hickey made it a double for Wexford as she won the individual championship mainly thanks to her score in the run (1,112) which helped her to a total of 4,208. Emma Quinlan, a member of the Meath Branch, won the shoot (860) and Leitrim’s Grace Quinn won the swim (1,152). Eleven combinations were totally clear in the ride.

Second overall and maintaining the family’s excellent record in Tetrathlon was West Waterford’s Margaret Verling who was second in the swim and third in the run. She was clear in the ride on Olympic Flash, the 17-year-old bay gelding who also went clear on Sunday for Margaeret’s brother Peter.

Mixed luck

There was mixed luck for the Hargaden brothers at last weekend’s Tetrathlon championships with Jamie retiring from the Senior Boys’ competition while Jack was on the winning Carlow team in the Junior Boys’ championship.

There were just three members on that Carlow team, Hargaden supplying the lowest score of the 12,636 points which saw him claim the title along with Cillian Tobin, who finished second individually (4,535), and Darragh O’Brien. The Tipperary Titans quartet of Patrick O’Callaghan, Jack Landy (who was third individually), Ollie Long and Dave Hennessy placed second (12,074) with the Co Limerick Stripes’ J.J. Power, John Kirby, Henry Buckley and Alex Barry, finishing third (11,746).

The talented Power, who was first in the shoot, equal fourth in the swim and first in the run, also posted one of 10 clear rounds in the ride phase to take the individual title on a total of 4,600 points.