The final fixture of the Champion Headwear Pony Club Pony Racing series, held at Lingfield Park Racecourse on October 26th 2015, saw sunshine and a special visit from The Pony Club’s Patron, HRH The Princess Royal. As a great turnout of over 400 Pony Club Members, supporters and family poured in through the gates ahead of the [...]
The Pony Club is full steam ahead towards Olympia, The London International Horse Show, with an enhanced presence at the show for 2014, including all the usual Pony Club merchandise, running the Olympia Shopping Drop Off, launching the next level of the e learning site ‘PonyPrep Plus’ and some great action in the Mini Major [...]
The Pony Club Open Eventing League, generously sponsored by Likit, has reached its conclusion for 2014.Over 30 Likit Open Eventing League competitions have been held all over the country since March, accommodating hundreds of Pony Club horse and rider combinations across them. The winner of the Likit Open Eventing League for 2014 is Katherine Mason, from the [...]
A gathering of elite coaches from both Eventing and Show Jumping attended a Pony Club Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Yogi Breisner FBHS & Mary Tuckettevent on Thursday 19 June 2014 at Rectory Farm, Gloucestershire. Olympic riders, British Eventing Accredited Coaches, British Horse Society Fellows and the British Eventing team’s Performance Manager Yogi Breisner FBHS all [...]
The Pony Club is pleased to announce that Weatherbys Private Banking have come on board as the headline sponsor of The Pony Club Championships, to be held at Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, August 15-18th 2014, by kind permission of The Marquess of Cholmondeley. The Pony Club Championships draw a crowd of over 5000 spectators and competitors each year, [...]
Congratulations to Rachael Coulter and Justine Harding of East Antrim Pony Club who have made it to the final selection of young rider development receiving specialist training and development. Naturally both East Antrim members were absolutely thrilled with their achievement. To have two members make it through this selection process is a very positive reflection [...]
The brightest Pony Club minds in the country assembled at Warwickshire College recently for the annual NFU Mutual National Quiz Finals, with teams from Pony Club *Branches and **Centres throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland attending, after securing their place at the finals by winning their Area competition. The teams were tested on various [...]
The Pony Club held their annual Cubitt Awards ceremony at Stratford Manor, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire on Monday June 3rd. The annual awards take their name from the late Hon Guy Cubitt, who was the Chairman of The Pony Club for 25 years and President from 1970 – 1979, and are held in honour of volunteers who [...]
The Pony Club attended the London Pet Show, May 11-12th 2013 at Earls Court, which welcomed thousands of visitors across the weekend and featured everything from duck herding to doggy dancing! The Pony Club staff and volunteers were on hand to introduce visitors to everything that’s fun about horse care and riding across the three [...]
Balmoral Thursday Showing Results
Yearlings 21 COLT or GELDING, foaled in 2016, thoroughbred and non thoroughbred, entered in their respective stud book, likely to make a high class performer. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 53 Gibson, Mr Desmond ROLEX 2nd 60 O Gorman, Mr Kieran MURPHY 2 3rd 58 Martin, Mrs Pat CLOVER CHOICE 4th 55 Kirkpatrick, Mrs [...]
Balmoral Results Wednesday 10th May 2017
28 MARE or GELDING, 4 years old, capable of carrying over 14st [89kg]. Prize Cat. No Cat. Name Details 1st 137 Tierney Mrs Daphne BLOOMFIELD BADGER 2nd 134 McElligott, Richard F PUSHKIN 3rd 136 Rothwell, Mr. Derry GREENHALL HUNTSMAN 4th 139 Williams, Mr Ian MARLFIELD 5th 138 Wallace, Mr Trevor APPLE JACK 29 MARE or GELDING, 4 [...]
Knotts Bakery Sponsor Young Event Horse Championship
The RUAS are delighted to announce that Knotts Bakery is continuing their sponsorship of the Young Event Horse Championship at Balmoral Show 2017. There will be four year old and five year old classes which aim to identify high calibre horses bred in Ireland with the potential to become top class eventers. The Knotts Bakery [...]
RUAS Launch Four Day Balmoral Show
The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS) today launched the 149th Balmoral Show in partnership with Ulster Bank. This year’s Show will provide an exciting mix of food, farming excellence and showmanship alongside an exhilarating entertainment schedule from 10th – 13th May 2017. With many new additions to the Show, news of a fourth day is proving the most [...]
Dublin Horse Show Officially Launched
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD officially launched the Dublin Horse Show today June 15th at the RDS, Dublin. The participation of many Rio-bound gold medal hopefuls at this year’s Dublin Horse Show means a change from the traditional August dates to July 20-24 for this summer institution. Despite the earlier date, [...]
