Pony club memories

[Tinsel]

does any one remember doing pony club as a child did you enjoy the badges and the friends you made or the camping and the rallies and the showjumping or dressage

if you could do pony club can you remember your first pony if you had a brother or a sister did they join the same pony club or did t go to a different one

if you did not get the chance to do that did any of your friends get a chance

 

[L&M]

We were so lucky as were in the PC during the late 70's /80's, both my brother and I. We were in the surrey Union.

My outstanding memory is of the yearly summer camps, which were held at the South of England Showground in Ardingly - always the high light of the year. The best bit being the Fri night disco where the few boys ran and hid as all the teenage girls mooned over them, and then muck heap fight on the last day.....!

We used to hack to all the rallies and remember being terrified of the DC......but what a good foundation to a lifelong obsession with horses.

 

[L&M]

We were so lucky as were in the PC during the late 70's /80's, both my brother and I. We were in the surrey Union.

We had a pony each, my first was a little fat grey called Merrylegs, and my brother always got the speedier models that invariably went wrong/broke, where as my little chap just kept going! Our succession of ponies were either rejects or loans as my mum didn't have much money, but we loved them to bits however naughty they were.

My outstanding memory is of the yearly summer camps, which were held at the South of England Showground in Ardingly - always the high light of the year. The best bit being the Fri night disco where the few boys ran and hid as all the teenage girls mooned over them, and then muck heap fight on the last day.....!

We used to hack to all the rallies and remember being terrified of the DC......but what a good foundation to a lifelong obsession with horses.

 

[L&M]

Sorry that was meant to be an edit.....not a quote!

 

[Snowfilly]

I’m envious… was in PC for a few years and nothing but bad experiences and sour memories. Ours was a rich kids playground and the instructors only wanted you at rallies if you were good enough for teams. I’ve never had the heart to join even a RC since.

 

[Tinsel]

I’m envious… was in PC for a few years and nothing but bad experiences and sour memories. Ours was a rich kids playground and the instructors only wanted you at rallies if you were good enough for teams. I’ve never had the heart to join even a RC since.

That sounds no fun at all did you get bullied or something else

 

[teddypops]

I’m envious… was in PC for a few years and nothing but bad experiences and sour memories. Ours was a rich kids playground and the instructors only wanted you at rallies if you were good enough for teams. I’ve never had the heart to join even a RC since.

Yeah, our pony club was only really interested in the rich kids with their own transport. 40 years ago very few of us had a trailer. I did enjoy camp though and the best bit was at the very end after the prize giving, we all did a flat out gallop lap of honour around a 20 acre field! One year this kid got bucked off so it was then banned, but of course there was always someone’s pony that happened to take off at a crucial moment and set all the others off too!

 

[little_critter]

I didn’t have a pony as a child, so the only bit of PC I did was camp because I begged or borrowed a pony.
I was chatting to a friend just recently about it, and how we did things differently then. We had a choice of keeping our ponies in a field or a stable. If you chose field (which I did twice) you just removed hind shoes and chucked 20 unfamiliar ponies into a field for a week ?
That would never happen now.

 

[Domirati]

Loved camp. I was South Durham at Sedgefield racecourse. Mid 70’s to early 80’s. Very little snobbery then. You had to do four alleys to be invited from memory.