Big Walnut Creek Pony Club wants you to join our fun!  We are currently seeking new members! 

Is your child, up to age 25, crazy about horses?  Pony club is a worldwide educational organization that originated in Great Britain in 1928.  The United States Pony Clubs (USPC) was founded as a non-profit national youth horsemanship organization in February 1954.

Through the USPC formal instructional program, members learn more about horses and their care than do members of other American horsemanship organizaitons. Riding activities include Combined Training (dressage, stadium jumping, cross-country), Polo, Polocrosse, Mounted Games, Show Jumping, Dressage, Vaulting (horseback gymnastics), Foxhunting, and Tetrathlon (riding, running, swimming, shooting).  Although USPC emphasizes instruction over competition, members do compete with one another at club, regional, and national rallies.  Most USPC competition is a team competition, so members learn the importance of cooperation and friendship.  Pony Club members learn to ride and care for their mounts safely and well and become good responsible people--and have fun!

To join, call Marcee at 765-522-1306.  For more infomation about USPC, please visit ponyclub.org

 Some of Big Walnut Creek team members take a break to enjoy lunch at the D-Rally. Big Walnut Creek finished inFirst Place Overall, and Fourth Place in Horse Management.

  Mother Nature provided beautiful weather for the pony clubbers on Saturday, August 9th.  The Big Walnut Creek Pony Club hosted the Hartland Region USPC D-Rally.  D-rally is an eventing rally (dressage, stadium jumping and cross-country jumping) for our beginner pony clubbers.  The D1 level participants rode USDF intro A dressage test, and jumped ground poles in stadium and cross-country.  The D2 level participants rode USEF Beginner Novice A, and jumps/obstacles up to 19" high and 1' wide.  The D3's rode USEF Beginner Novice B, and jumps/ obstacles up to 2'6" high, and 2'6" wide.  As a pony club rally, the participants were also judged on horse management.  This was the first rally for many of the participants.  Everyone did a wonderful job!  We wish to thank all of our pony clubbers, parents, and volunteers for a job well done! 

Members of the Big Walnut Creek Pony Club, a chapter of the United States Pony Club, participated in the Heartland Region’s Quiz Rally on Saturday, May 10th in Indianapolis. The Quiz Rally is a team competition on horse knowledge. Questions included knowledge about horse health, anatomy, horse management, breeds, markings, competition rules, dressage, polocrosse, mounted games, and show jumping. There are approximately 13,250 members of the United States Pony Clubs, Inc (USPC) throughout the country. Along with an emphasis on helping its members to learn to ride and care for horses, Pony Club promotes teamwork, a sense of responsibility, safety, good moral judgment and self-confidence. Activities are English-riding based, and members ride both horses and ponies, depending on the size of the rider and the discipline in which s/he is competing. Pony Club competition is team competition, much like the Olympic games, where members learn the importance of cooperation and teamwork. Members range in ages from as young as 4 through age 25. 

Big Walnut Creek Pony Club Quiz Competitors: (Back Row, left to right) Taylor Smith; Chaleise Everly; Ali Sacopulis; Amelia Wilson Wright; (Front Row) Meridith Mock; Olivia Sacopulis; Spencer Haggard; Sydney Haggard.