DESPITE her youthful looks, Melanie Purcell was unable to compete against her 13-year-old son Jonty in Pony Club tetrathlon, here or in England, or in the recent Irish Pony Club/Connolly’s Red Mills eventing championship at Tattersalls Ireland.
Last weekend however, the pair both lined out at Eventing Ireland’s National Championships at Kilguilkey House where, from his two rides, Jonty finished a best-placed eighth in the EI90 (P) championship on FHS Felicity while, from her two rides, Melanie claimed the EI80 title on the home-bred Irish Sport Horse mare FHS High Waltzer, completing on her winning dressage score of 22.1 penalties.


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