News

Fantastic news from the Sopot CCI4*-S in Poland earlier this month when Hong Kong event rider (and former HKPC member) Thomas Heffernan Ho secured an Olympics Eventing Individual qualification on his horse Tayberry. 

We are very grateful to HKJC for arranging a Q&A session on Monday 28th September, 2020 at which young riders in Hong Kong will have the opportunity to meet with Tom over zoom.

This Q&A session is free for HKPC members. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please visit the Events page of our website for more information.

https://www.hongkongponyclub.com/events

Due to social distancing restrictions the format of this year's CCC will be very different from usual. Starting in October 2020, competitors for each team will be invited to complete show-jumping rounds at their usual riding centres only. Videos of all entries will be uploaded to a shared platform before the 25th of each month for judging.

We are very grateful to Lowu Saddle Club and Clearwater Bay Equestrian Centre for hosting HKPC riders from their respective riding centres to compete for the HKPC team this year. If you ride regularly at either of these riding centres, please express interest to LWSC or CEEC to participate in the CCC and you may be allocated a place on the HKPC team!

We deeply regret that due to restrictions on riders moving between riding centres, we will not be able to invite riders who do not usually ride at either LWSC or CEEC to join our CCC team this year. We sincerely hope the situation will return to normal next season.

It was with surprise and sadness that we accepted the resignation of Deborah Coulson from the HKPC Committee at our last meeting on 10th August. Deborah will be leaving Hong Kong to return to the UK. We are so sorry to see her go, but at the same time delighted she has offered to continue to provide her support from afar. We are also grateful to Christian Allderidge who agreed to join our Committee in her place.

Deborah with Chiara Deéb (Most Improved at Camp) LWSC Eventing Camp, July 2020

Thank you Deborah! You have contributed so much to Hong Kong's equestrian community over so many years. We will miss you greatly!

Updated full list of HKPC Committee members (as of August 2020):

• Christian Allderidge (Lo Wu Saddle Club)
• Laurel Cooke (Clear Water Bay Equestrian & Education Centre)
• Sarah Corner
  
• Chris Doby
• Jo Eling - Chief Instructor
• Liz Lumsden
  
• Valerie Mangundjaja
• Elise McAuley - District Commissioner
• Natasha Rose (Hong Kong Jockey Club)
  
• Louise Sanderson
• Joelle Scot (Riding for the Disabled)
  
• Sarah Vandre - Secretary
  

While the stables remain closed, we just have to make the most of the situation! The fantastic team at LWSC welcomes HKPC members from all over Hong Kong to participate in online learning sessions.

If you are interested to improve your knowledge of theory and Stable Management, why not join in? Please contact LWSC directly (email: lwsc@netvigator.com/ phone: 26730066) to register. The first session starts this Tuesday (18th August) at 6pm!

Thank you, thank you to the team at Lowu and all our fantastic volunteers for making camp such a success earlier this week! Our 24 eventing campers and 12 minis had a terrific 3 days.

Kate Lumsden on Flicka and Emily Yates on Star

A special thank you goes out to all the instructors... Deborah, Christian, Gary, Laurel, Lucie, Man-key and ofcourse HKPC Chief Instructor Jo ...

as well as our wonderful team of volunteers ... Liz (Leven) and Liz (Leung), Kathryn, Juliette, Valerie, Dominique and Rebecca, Owen, Velvet, Poppy, Eva (Gunning), Eva (Morton), Julie, Anabelle, Daniela, Ivy, Stephanie, Heather and our official photographer, Eric.

We are also so grateful to Bits & Boots Saddlery for generously sponsoring our awards. Congratulations to all awardees:

• Best Horsemanship at Camp - Charmaine Ip
  
• Most Improved at Camp - Chiara De'eb
• Best Round at Show - Leelani Neuveux and Sophie Bater
  
• Best Turned Out at Show - Anita Qian
• Oustanding Group at Camp - Red ride (Emily Walker, Chiara De'eb, Charlotte Yates, Evie Sum, Fenella Millen and Lilly Hirth)
  

We want to express a sincere thank you for all the wonderful artwork submitted into our HKPC art competition. Who knew we had such extraordinary talent in our midsts?

Our judges are pleased to announce the following results...

Mini category (11 yrs & under)                                        Junior category (12-16yrs)

Winner         Furla Ng                                                         Winner  Chiara Deeb

Runners Up  Alova Nablu & Pippa Walker                   Runner Up  Anita Qian           

Awards for this competition will be presented on the final day of our upcoming camp  (Tuesday 7th July.) We hope all awardees will join us then!

Winning entry in the Junior category from Chiara De'eb

Congratulations to all eight candidates who passed their C Test at CEEC yesterday!

Sheri Ng, Jasmine Poon, Emily Walker, Rachel Emmerson, Lorna Emmerson, Emily Yates, Charlotte Yates and Oskar Boekhorst

Thank you to the team at CEEC and our PC Examiners Jo Eling and Louise Sanderson for making this possible while respecting social distancing measures.

Thank you to everyone who supported our online 6-week Quiz challenge. We've made it to the end and we hope you enjoyed it.

Congratulations to Sarah Broderick (Team LWSC) who is officially our Quiz Master 2020 with 549 points in total. In second and third places are Quiz super-sisters Emily and Pippa Walker (Team CEEC) with 505 and 504 points, respectively. Well done!

Special mention also goes to the following team-members who completed all six weeks of the Challenge and placed in the Top 10..

Julie Green (TMPRS), India Gray (LWSC), Agnes To (TMPRS) and Daisy Won (TMPRS).

Team Totals and Top Scoring Team Members (position in Top 10):

• Team LWSC 3,463 points: Sarah Broderick (1st), India Gray (5th), LWSC D Competition Group (8th), Sophie Bater (10th)
  
• Team CEEC 2,029 points: Emily Walker (2nd), Pippa Walker (3rd)
  
• Team TPRS 1,354 points: Julie Green (4th), Agnes To (6th) and Daisy Won (7th)
• Team BREC 560 points: Jeffrey Wong (9th)
  

A few weeks ago we invited entries from our members to the British Pony Club's International Art Competition... On deeper reflection, we've now decided to run our own local art competition too!

All you need to do is email us a high quality image of your own original artwork on the theme of "Equestrian Hopes and Dreams" (whatever this theme means to you.) Entries must reach us before 20th June 2020. Our judges will select winners and runners-up in each age category.

There are some great prizes to be won!

We will automatically forward all local entries to the international art competition so that your talent can be recognised on the world stage!

Congratulations to all Pony Clubbers who competed in last weekend's LWSC Dressage Show. There were some impressive percentage scores achieved despite the adverse weather conditions. Well done!

At the invitation of LWSC, rosettes were awarded to top-scoring Pony Club members in the most popular classes. Results as follows:

Class 1 Prelim Dressage (Pony Club)

1st Charmain Ip (72.17%), 2nd Sophie Bater (70.43%), 3rd Charli Haddican (70%), 4th Anita Qian (69.02%), 5th Alexis Shie (66.63%) and 6th Sarah Broderick (66.20%)

Class 2 Prelim Dressage (Pony Club)

1st Charmain Ip (73.28%), 2nd Charli Haddican (70.69%), 3rd Anita Qian (69.05%), 4th Chaira Deebs (67.33%), 5th Fenella Millen (67.16%) and 6th Alexis Shie (65.09%)

Class 3 Novice Dressage (Pony Club)

1st Sophie Bater (59.58%) and 2nd Owen Wong (58.13%)

*** We intend to introduce a new Pony Club points system to recognise the effort and performance of our members in all disciplines across all riding centres throughout the upcoming 2020/ 21 season. More information to follow soon! ***