What is Pony Club?
Pony club is the leading junior equestrian organization in the world, and can be found in 31 countries. In the United States. more than 600 individual clubs are spread throughout the country. Membership totals some 13,000. “The purpose of Pony Club is to encourage young people to ride and to learn to enjoy all kinds of sports connected with horses and riding; to provide instruction in riding and horsemanship, and to instill into members the proper care of their animals; to promote the highest ideals of sportsmanship, citizenship and loyalty, thereby cultivating strength of character and self discipline”.Each local pony club is run by a District Commissioner and other elected officials. Clubs involve entire families-members and mothers and fathers and more. (Pony club is a monument to volunteerism with some 3,000 dedicated and often passionate volunteers nationally). Generally, Pony club members are ages 5-25. There is no absolute minimum age, although a child must be old and mature eno
