In The Spotlight
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Meet your 2016 National Youth Board Members!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we meet Area 4 member Mattea Curtis. Mattea Curtis is an H (C-3/H-A) member of Northern Mines Pony Club in the Sierra Pacific Region. She became involved with Pony Club at the age of ten, and it has shaped her riding career. It introduced her to the sport of eventing, and she has been hooked ever since. With the help of her saint of a pony, Daisy, she competed in local events and achieved her C-2 certification. Daisy also took her from her first fox hunt up to first field. When she set her sights…
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Meet your 2016 National Youth Board Members!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we meet Area 6 member Cooper Madden-Hennessey. Cooper Madden-Hennessey is an H-B from the Oakendale Farm Pony Club Riding Center in the New York Upper Connecticut Region. Cooper is a busy college student at the University of Connecticut working to balance a barn life and an academic life. He enjoys working on his farm and tending to his OTTB prospect’s every need. Cooper is also an avid competitor, competing throughout New England and at Pony Club Championships. Cooper has worked to build a Regional Youth Board within his region and also participated in the Visiting…
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Meet your 2016 National Youth Board Members!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we meet Area 6 member Kelly Tighe. Kelly Tighe is an H-HM from Lost Hounds Pony Club in the Tri-State Region. She plans on following the dressage track for her upper level certifications. She has been a Pony Club member since 2007, and has competed at Championships in Quiz, Dressage, and Show Jumping. In 2014 Kelly was part of the Quiz International Exchange team at Festival. She enjoys teaching within her region and club, and looks forward to participating in the Visiting Instructor Program. Kelly was Chair of Tri-State’s Regional Youth Board from 2012-2014, and…
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Meet your 2016 National Youth Board Members!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we meet Area 3 member Kristin Short. Kristin Short is an HB certified member from Lake Hunt Pony Club in Lake Shore Region. She has been a member of USPC since 2008. Since she began her college career in the fall of 2011, she has not had a permanent mount. However, not having a horse hasn’t stopped her involvement with Pony Club. She is still very active teaching and volunteering at the club, regional, and national level. She was a member of Lake Shore’s Junior Board from 2008-2014 where she served 3 years as the…
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2015 Flash Award Winner- The Butte Fires
Every year since 2004 The United States Pony Clubs, Inc recognizes an outstanding Club, Center, Region, or Member with the Flash Award. The award was created by Kathy Aranosian, owner of Flash, the horse chosen as the USPC 50th Anniversary Breyer Model. She wanted to sponsor a yearly award to encourage the kind of teamwork generated by her club when they were writing about Flash. Entries are taken by essay and are due November 1st each year. The award is given at the USPC Annual Meeting and Equine Symposium. This year’s winner was sent in by Erica Kirchgatter a C-1 Traditional member of Claim Jumper Pony Club in the Middle…
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Silver Bullet: A Very Special Pony
The last of our finalists for the Flash Teamwork Award, Breanna Kaho, a H-B HM member of Run O’The Mill Pony Club in the Lake Shore Region chose to share the story of a special Pony from her area. Those who knew Silver Bullet think he is pretty special. Read more about his story below! What spans one region, two clubs, and over a decade? One very special pony. Silver Bullet is a wonderful 29 year old grey pony who has taught so many Pony Club members to ride. He is owned by Mrs. Pat Hamilton, one of the founders of Run O’ the Mill Pony Club, in Southeastern Wisconsin.…
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Riding Center Teamwork On Display!
Pony Club parent, Margaret Coulter submitted her Flash Teamwork Award essay about the riding center her daughter utilizes to learn about Pony Club. Read along about finalist 8T Acres Pony Club Riding Center! The formation, literally from the ground up, of the 8T Acres Pony Club Riding Center has been an amazing team building experience for a group of riders in the Upper Valley Region of NH. Ashley Glynn had a goal set in her mind; create a Pony Club Riding Center where students could affordably participate in Pony Club. A group of 12 interested students, varying in age from 5 to 14 came together over 2 years ago to…
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What’s Up Doc, The Ideal Pony Club Mount
Molly Ryan, a C+ Dressage member of the Sinking Creek Pony Club in the Old Dominion Region submitted the following story as her entry for the Flash Teamwork Award for 2015. One of a few finalists, Pony Club wanted to share the story of this fabulous Pony Club horse who has taught many members the ropes of Pony Club. Enjoy! What’s Up Doc didn’t begin his life as the ideal Pony Club mount; he was, in fact, quite the opposite. Barely 14.2 hands, with a surprising wild streak and intense fear of thunder, Doc arrived at Harmony Hills Equestrian Center, the home of Sinking Creek Pony Club, with little training…
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What’s Up Doc, The Ideal Pony Club Mount
Molly Ryan, a C+ Dressage member of the Sinking Creek Pony Club in the Old Dominion Region submitted the following story as her entry for the Flash Teamwork Award for 2015. One of a few finalists, Pony Club wanted to share the story of this fabulous Pony Club horse who has taught many members the ropes of Pony Club. Enjoy! What’s Up Doc didn’t begin his life as the ideal Pony Club mount; he was, in fact, quite the opposite. Barely 14.2 hands, with a surprising wild streak and intense fear of thunder, Doc arrived at Harmony Hills Equestrian Center, the home of Sinking Creek Pony Club, with little training…
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Teamwork: Enter Here
Ann Tukey Shideler, RIC for the Northwest Region sent in this fantastic story about the Northwest Regions efforts to get to Championships West. This story was a finalist for the Flash Teamwork Award presented each year to a region, club, center, outstanding person, team, or horse to recognize the teamwork Pony Club values so highly. Read along as Ann shares her story: According to Dictionary.com teamwork is defined as a ‘cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting as a team on in the interests of a common cause.’ Whenever you take a group of pony club members to Champs it is always a team…
