THE novice boys and girls teams from the Zetland Hunt Pony Club both won at the recent Area 3 tetrathlon competition to qualify for the national championships in Warwickshire next month.

The club also had individual successes in the event, held at The Linnels, Hexham, with the novice boys team of Nick Zissler, Richard Thurlow-Begg and Chris Fall filling the first three individual places.

Georgina Zissler also won the novice girls category, with fellow team members Jennifer Bainbridge and Stephanie Weddell finishing second and fifth respectively.

In addition, the minimus girls team of Georgina McIntyre, Heather Appleton, Leah Stevenson and Sophie Philbrick finished fourth, with Sophie sixth individually.

Competitors had to prove themselves shooting, swimming, riding a demanding cross-country course and running in the burning sun