Pony Club B Test..!

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Hey , I Am Doin My Pony Club B Test In A Couple Of Months , I Am Doing Training 2/3 Times A week With My Instructers , Just Wondering If Anyone Has Done It And What Your Experances Where Like?

I Have The Choice Of To Of My Horses To Do It On Which Im Stressing About Because I Dont No What One To Use..! Haa But im Sure Ill Figure It Out..!

What Where You Experances Like And Duid You Find It Difficult / Easier / Hard..??
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Im doing mine in august. Everyone has told me i will pass the riding easily, but they havent seen my stable managment yet ...
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I did mine 11 years ago so not sure what its like now! but i do remember it. Make sure you answer any open questions, once they are satisfied you know your stuff they will leave you alone while thy try and extract answers from the quieter candidates.

I was the only person to pass the riding and care when i did it, partly becasue no one could ride my stressy TB mare i think!

What are your choice of horses?
 
I did mine when I was 15 so, eeeeek 12 years ago! It was fine, just make sur eyou are confident in you answers, speak up - and only answer the questions given.

Be honest about the horses you ride. I described one cob as 'nice' but the examiner told me that it was obvious it was not my sort of horse!!

Its not that bad really!

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My daughter did hers a couple of years ago. I expected her to fail the stable management but to pass the riding with her eyes closed. Unfortunately, it was the other way round - passed the stable management and failed the riding. The reason that she failed is that she was asked to explain how she had done something and said "don't know, I just do it". Anyway, a month later she went on to pass her riding.

She's taking her Pony Club lunge test this year, and is doing her BHS stage 3 in September and then working on her teaching exam.

Good luck with yours
 
I did it last year
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and passed!

I found the theroy bit nerve racking
but as long as you have revising every thing u need to know u should be find.

On the riding, i found it went really well.
U really need a horse who u know inside out and it will probably make u look better (we had someone who fell off a horse who she had had for a week
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but the waiting is the worse bit
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Make sure u act confident - even if u don't know the answer
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good luck

lou

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I did mine more years ago than I would like to publicly admit - examiners all in tweed skirts, sensible brown shoes, headscarves and armed with a shooting stick (told you it was a while ago!) All I can advise is to look at the examiner when answering a question, speak up and above all swot up on the stable management - it's not meant to be a walk in the park but the pleasure of wearing that red felt took a bit of beating!
Best of luck!
 
Stable management is awful, most nervewracking thing i have ever done. Get your instructor to go over bits, types of shoe, feeding, knee boots (examiner had a thing about it been on perfectly in mine!!)
I'm sure you'll be fine, just revise loads
 
Just dont do it in the same Area as me, im sure theres something fishy about the examiners who have rubbish excuses to back up their argument when you challenge them (no im not bitter at all.......
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Just to add, basically you need to memorise the PC handbook and be able to recite it back word for word to them for the stable management, no hands on experiance necessary
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That was the feeling that I got back from my examiners, there is only one explanation for everything.
 
I did mine last year at 15 and it wasnt too bad, well not as bad as everyone had made it out to be! As long as you revise you will be fine! I had examiner from hell which was scarey and my stable bandages looked like 'Nora Batty's tights' but otherise it wasn't too bad. I rode a horse that I had never ridden before because mine kindly went lame the day before, but if you have a choice definatly take the one which you know the best and will make you look good. I had a friend who failed (with examiner from hell!) because her horse wasn't 'suitible' even though she rode it very well. I was also on my own in the stable management which was bad because all focus is on you! The examiner had a very strange fixation with how wrong interval training is (???) for getting horses fit in the higher levels which I didn't really understand but I had to just nod and agree. Just look like you are confident and smile lots even if it goes wrong and i am sure you will be fine! You sound like you are doing more work than I did, we only got 3 training sessions in the run up.
 
I did mine quite a few years ago and passed. SM wise they prefer you to know all the facts but also speak from experience. I got one comment that I sounded a bit textbooky on the fitness question (they asked me how I would get a polo pony fit from grass to match, plus feed percentages and schooling regime....I said a pretty perfect answer but I do so appologise that I don't have a string of polo ponies at home to talk about! LOL!)

Good luck
 
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