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With thanks to LWSC and its competition team, HKPC joined riders from Australia, New Zealand, UK and South Africa to take part in the Pony Club International Virtual Jumping Show 2022.  Our local jumping round went ahead at Lo Wu on Friday November 18th, a couple weeks behind schedule on account of the unexpected and unseasonable typhoon earlier in the month.

Pony Club Australia have  released a video for the virtual closing ceremony. Congratulations to the winning teams!

Juniors - 1st South Africa, 2nd United Kingdom, 3rd New Zealand

Seniors - 1st South Africa, 2nd United Kingdom, 3rd Australia

Although the results for our HK team were not what we hoped for, this was our first time participating in an event of this kind and we've got to start somewhere. Looking forward to next time!

Thank you to our Junior team ...

Evie on "Lady"

Jeffrey on "Conker"

Selena on "Jacob"

Furla on "Popcorn"

And thank you also to our Senior riders ...

Sarah on "Chopsticks"

Anita on "Emperor"

We are sorry that Charmaine and Angel couldn't join us on the postponed date so we were not able to make a full senior team.

Finally thank you to Johnny and Karen Mak for judging the show, and to TMPRS and LWSC for their support in making it happen. None of this is possible without the dedication of our instructors, officials and administrators.

To conclude this year's virtual dressage show, United States Pony Club has produced this lovely virtual closing ceremony. Check it out on Youtube!

Congratulations again to all of our HK riders and thank you for taking part.

Thank you to our awesome team who achieved third place at the second round of the CCC hosted by CEEC last Friday evening.

Sofia Boekhorst (20cm), Harriet McKee (30cm) and Lukas Boekhorst (50cm)

Congratulations to seven candidates who completed their D Test with Joelle Scott yesterday. Thank you Joelle for yet another season of your super Monday rallies and also to TMPRS for hosting.

Having realised that many of our HKPC Team members were at the One Day Event yesterday (Saturday 12th November), we had a spontaneous and informal prize-giving presentation for the recently concluded PCIA Virtual Dressage Show 2022. Well done team! Apologies to those team members who were not able to make it. Your rosettes will be delivered to your riding centre.

Class 1

Class 2

 

Class 3

Class 4

Class 5

• FIFTH: Denise Yung
• SIXTH: Oskar Boekhorst
• Team SECOND: Oskar Boekhorst, Rachel Emmerson, Austin Tam, Denise Yung
• Special appreciation: Anson Tam

The Second Pony Club International Dressage (Virtual) Show has successfully concluded today. The show attracted 162 entries from 11 countries.

Special congratulations to our Hong Kong Pony Club riders who have placed individually in their classes:

• Jeffrey Wong (LWSC) - Class 1A THIRD
• Furla Ng & Oliver Stapleton (BREC) - Class 4 FIRST
• Emily Chow & Ka Ching Fu (BREC) - Class 4 THIRD
  
• Denise Yung (TPRS) - Class 5 FIFTH
• Oskar Boekhorst (CEEC) - Class 5 SIXTH
  

And well done to our teams who achieved the following Team placings:

• Class 1A THIRD Carrie Wang, Rosy Zheng, Lilly Hirth & Jeffrey Wong
  
• Class 5 SECOND Oskar Boekhorst, Rachel Emmerson, Austin Tam & Denise Yung

Full details including videos for all entries in every class are available on the Show Board.  Check it out!

Making the most of this glorious Autumn weather

Five happy Public Riding School members enjoyed two days of C Rally at BREC and TMPRS. Thank you Nicky and Joelle for making this possible. We plan to offer C Test during the Christmas break. Updates will be available on our events page.

Thank you also Christian and Gary for taking six LWSC riders out for  XC Experience @ BREC. Looking forward to seeing some of these up and coming members out at One Day Event soon!

Congratulations to six candidates who passed D+ Test today at Lowu Saddle Club.

Gary was impressed with your progress from the D+ rallies, which is a testament to your hard work. So well done! Big thank you also to Gary for examining and to LWSC for hosting.

Our new D+ testers (in no particular order) are...

Annabel Chow

Annabel Zhao

Maisie Woolcott-Brown

Alova Nablu

Alana Chan

Annissa Chu

Thank you Sarah and Laurel and welcome Daisy!

HKPC owes a big thank you to Sarah Vandre who is stepping down as Pony Club Secretary. Sarah has served the Club with dedication and commitment throughout the ups and downs of the past few years.

In addition to mothering three outstanding Pony Club members, Sarah  has trained, qualified and gained full-time employment as a professional teacher during her tenure with us.  So she has been very busy and we deeply appreciate her contributions. Happily Sarah will remain on the Pony Club Committee.

We extend a very warm welcome Daisy Won who is our new Pony Club Secretary. Daisy is a long-time member of the Hong Kong equestrian community, having ridden and loved many a horse at Tuen Mun Public Riding School for years and years.

Daisy has an Accounting, Controls, Risk Management and Compliance  background. She worked for more than 20 years in the finance industry before  stepping down as Head of Compliance for a global asset management firm in 2017.

At the start of this membership year we also say good bye and thank you to Laurel Cooke who will soon be returning to the UK. Kerry Freeman will replace Laurel as the representative from CEEC on the HKPC Committee.

Congratulations all members selected to participate in this year's dressage show hosted by the Pony Club International Alliance.

Please get practicing your tests! Videos must be filmed and submitted by Sunday 16th October and results will be announced on Sunday 30th October. Team and individual placings are up for grabs in all classes against riders from all PCIA member countries including Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, United States and Canada.

Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4	Class 5
Training Level	First Level	Second Level	Pas de Deux Freestyle to Music	Prix Caprilli
Carrie Wang (LWSC)	Sarah Broderick (LWSC)	Kate Lumsden (BREC)	Kate Lumsden & Alexis Shie (BREC)	Oskar Boekhorst (CEEC)
Rosy Zheng (CEEC)	Evie Sum (LWSC)	Alexis Shie (BREC)	Furla Ng & Oliver Stapleton (BREC)	Rachel Emmerson (CEEC)
Lilly Hirth  (CEEC)	India Gray (LWSC)	Ashley Gale (TMPRS)	Emily Chow & Ka Ching Fu (BREC)	Austin Tam (LWSC)
Jeffrey Wong (LWSC)	Jemma Quinn (LWSC)	Chiara Deéb (tbc)	Sarah Broderick & India Gray (LWSC)	Denise Yung (TMPRS)
RESERVE: Jade Ng (CEEC) & Siobhan Doherty (LWSC)	RESERVE: Anya Law (TMPRS)			RESERVE: Anson Tam (LWSC)

Thank you to every member who expressed interest to represent us in this show, we really appreciate your support and enthusiasm.