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From left, Amber Skye Funnell (Taupo), Bailee Sterling (Warkworth), Ella Bartlett (Warkworth), Coach Kim Sterling, Esme Morgan (Taupo), Caitlin Longuet-Higgins (Warkworth) and Grace Mitchell (Warkworth).
The Warkworth District Pony Club won the North Island Pony Show Jumping Championship for the first time last month.
The team travelled to Waikato Equestrian Centre in Hamilton to compete.
Warkworth came first with 67 points, followed by Opotiki with 62 points and Whangarei with 58 points.
The Warkworth District team is made up of riders from the Warkworth and Matakana Pony Clubs.
The team was bolstered by two riders from Taupo, and accompanied by Wellsford’s Caitlin Wilkin and Holly Druce, who rode in the junior event.
The competition has been running for 35 years, but this is only the third year that Warkworth District has sent a team.
The team has been on the rise, having taken third place last time it competed.
Coach Kim Sterling said the Warkworth riders had performed consistently well this season and it was a deserved win.
