Tips From Pony Club Pros
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USPC Festival Travel Planning Tips
There’s a lot to plan for your trip to USPC Festival. Here’s a quick guide to amenities for you and your horse.
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USPC Festival Bluegrass Tour Guide
Excited for your trip to the USPC Festival? Here are some fun things to do and see while you’re in Lexington.
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Dear Ema: Improving Riding, Plateaus, and Breaking Up with a Coach
This new column, brought to you by Ride iQ's Ema Klugman, will now be featured on the Pony Club Blog, with this month's topics featuring how to improve your riding skills with a hectic schedule, working through plateaus in your skills, and breaking up with a coach.
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Effective Advocacy for Equestrian Land Access
Advocacy is the act of publicly speaking, writing, or recommending on behalf of or in support of an idea, action, cause, policy, or proposal. It can also be specifically helping someone to achieve their needs related to their rights. Let’s talk about advocating for what your equine community needs and how to do it. For equestrians, access to land, facilities, and trails is a cause to embrace.
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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Grooming Your Horse
When you develop a grooming routine during your daily barn chores and riding, it can be easy to fall into some bad habits or forget about an important step. Here’s a list of mistakes to avoid while grooming your horse and what you can do instead.
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Show-Stopping Biosecurity: A Horse Show Veterinarian’s Personal Experiences
Sometimes biosecurity measures at a horse show and at home barns get neglected. We underestimate the potential impact to our horses’ health, along with the economic impacts to owners and the industry. The necessary measures will continue to require leadership, time, education, routine preventive care and public awareness. Learn biosecurity tips from an expert veterinarian at Zoetis Equine.
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Reducing Test Anxiety
Your nerves have kicked in, despite your best attempts to stay calm. You’re now sweating, nauseous, and your heart is racing. You’ve lost all ability to focus. Your mind races as you try to pull the answer out of your brain, but despite all your preparation for your certification, it’s still eluding you. You glance around at all the stares from other testing candidates as they await your answer. The Examiner awaits your answer. Your anxiety has hit full force. Now what?
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Developing a Safe Space in Your Club/Center
Learn more about social-emotional learning skills and how they can be a good thing to teach to your Pony Club or Pony Club Riding Center members, and get tips from two experts in mental health for equestrians on creating a health environment for your club/center.
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Tips for the USPC Research Project Fair
Research Project Fair pros from the Midwest Region share their secrets for a fun and successful experience.
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4 Tips for Preparing for a Horse Event
When heading to a competition, there is so much planning that goes into getting ready for weeks, or even months, before the event! It is important that you give yourself time to make sure you can get everything ready ahead of time instead of waiting until a few days before an event. Planning well in advance helps you ensure everything is organized and that you feel prepared the day of the event. Check out four tips to help you prepare for your next horse event/competition.
