www.ponyclub.org
http://midcal.ponyclub.org

I would like to exend a special thank you to Dover Saddlery for being a sponsor of the Riding Center Program which enables interested youth to participate in this very special and valuable experience.

The Pony Club program at Glenoaks is for those individuals wanting to embrace horses and horseback riding as a lifestyle. It differs from the regular riding school program where students typically only ride 1-2 hours per week in lessons, in that our Pony Clubbers spend a significant amount of time at the barn performing chores that they would normally be doing at home if they owned their own horse and kept it on their property in the traditional sense.

It is by this commitment to the program that students learn what caring for and maintaining the overall health of their horse really entails and how they become very knowledgeable horsemen. This is everything from stall cleaning, feeding, proper grooming, basic veterinary care assessments, equipment care, stable management and much more.

We are so pleased to see all our Pony Club youngsters being so supportive of one another in their learning processes and showing good team spirit. Their cheerful attitudes makes Glenoaks Equestrian Center a wonderful place for our horse enthusiasts to hang out.

Mock Eventing Rally March 20, 2010
Congratulations Noelle and Lauren with the help of scratch member Brendan, on placing 4th overall at your first away rally. I am so glad you enjoyed yourselves, learned a ton, and are inspired to do more! - Rhonda

Lauren P. riding her dressage test

Noelle riding her dressage test

Lauren and Prince galloping up the hill

Noelle and Avril finishing the cross country course

Quiz Rally March 27, 2010
Congratulations Noelle on taking a 1st place finish in quiz with your team!

Ratings Winter 2010
Glenoaks Stables would like to congratulate Noelle, Audrey, AnnaLise and Lauren P. on achieving their recent ratings. All four pony clubbers were well prepared for a day of mounted and unmounted testing.

Thank you MacKenzie Cameron and Vickie Horvatich along with their mothers for testing our Pony Clubbers on the holiday weekend. The experience you provided was top notch and so well conducted. I am so pleased to see how accomplished pony clubbers turn out with years of experience in the program.

Noelle on Avril

Audrey on Jessie

Lauren P. and Prince

AnnaLise and Cassie

Meeting Dates
Our Pony Clubbers meet twice a month studying a variety of different topics. They receive reading assignments to prepare them for their instruction, they see real life scenarios to help gain a better understanding of situations they may encounter, they practice what they are taught, and they are quized on the previous meeting's subject material to test for understanding.

January 9-mounted
January 16-Ratings test
January 22-unmounted
Feb 6-mounted
Feb 20-unmounted
Mar 13-mounted
Mar 20-Mock Eventing clinic at Ramtap
Mar 27-Quiz rally
April 10-mounted
April 24-Everything but the Horse Rally
May 1-mounted
May 15-unmounted
Jun 6-mounted
Jun 19-unmounted
Jul 9, 10, 11-Camp at Santa Cruz
Jul 24-unmounted
Aug 7-mounted
Aug 21-unmounted
Sep 11-mounted
Sep 25-unmounted
Oct 2-unmounted
Oct 23-mounted
Nov 6-unmounted
Nov 20-unmounted
Dec 4-unmounted
Dec 11-mounted

TBD, Badge program lesson dates

For further information on signing up for the program, call Rhonda Weiss at 650-444-3289.