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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are finally underway! Did you know that there are two former Hong Kong Pony Clubbers competing in Eventing?

Alex Hua Tian is riding for Team China and Thomas Heffernan Ho is riding as an individual for Hong Kong SAR. Both HKPC alums from the 90'/ 00's will be competing in Dressage, Cross-country and Show-jumping next Friday 30 July to Monday 2 August.

 

Alex (front row 1st on left) wins Best in Ride at Pony Club Camp.

  

Tom in fancy dress (in red) and receiving an award from his dad (Fred Ho, former District Commissioner)

Updates on the Olympics Equestrian Schedule & Results are available here.

The Schedule (Tokyo local time)

• Sat 31 July 8.30 - 11.00: Eventing Dressage Team & Individual  (1)
• Fri 30 July 17.30 to 20.10: Eventing Dressage Team and Individual (2)
  
• Sat 31 July 8.30 - 11.00: Eventing Dressage Team and Individual (3)
• Sun 1 Aug 7.45 - 11.10: Eventing Cross Country Team and Individual
• Mon 2 Aug 16:00: Eventing Jumping Team Final
• Mon 2 Aug 19.45: Eventing Jumping Individual Final

Five local television stations, including TVB, ViuTV, Hong Kong Open TV, Cable TV and NowTV, will hopefully be live streaming these events. Don't miss out!

Learn more about Thomas and Alex

You may remember Tom from the get to know you session we did with him a few months ago. If you missed that, here's a short video that he made when he was in Hong Kong earlier in the year.

You can also check out this short video in which Alex speaks about his journey to Tokyo and even introduces his horses!

 

The results are in! Team Hong Kong has delivered a very respectable performance at the inaugural Pony Club International Alliance Virtual Dressage Show.

The competition was very tough with Team United Kingdom in particular setting a very high standard and riders from Team Australia, Team New Zealand and Team South Africa also achieving some very impressive test scores. Nonetheless, Team Hong Kong has done us proud.

Here is a summary of individual placings achieved by our riders:

Class	Prize	Name	Centre
Class 2a	6th	Alexis Shie	Beas River Equestrian
Class 2b	6th	Sarah Broderick	Lowu Saddle Club
Class 3	5th	Charli Haddican	Lowu Saddle Club
Class 3	6th - tie	Ashley Gale	Tuen Mun Public Riding School
Class 4	3rd	Sarah Broderick & Charmaine Ip	Lowu Saddle Club
Class 4	5th	Sophie Bater & Charli Haddican	Lowu Saddle Club

Team Hong Kong is also overall Team Winner for Class 4 Pas de Deux Freestyle to Music. Congratulations to all team members:

Check out full results for all classes and watch videos for 140 entries in the show on our padlet!

Celebrating the diversity of Pony Club worldwide with 140 dressage entries from riders in eight countries hosted on our very own padlet.

Participating Pony Clubs from: New Zealand, United States, Hong Kong, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa and Australia

We are delighted have 30 entries from Hong Kong Pony Club and extend an extra special welcome to our two guest riders from Equuleus International Riding Club (Beijing), the first Approved Pony Club Centre in Mainland China. Thank you Jessica Lin (Class 1) and Wang Yihao (Class 5) for your participation. We look forward to enjoying more Pony Club activities together in future!

Each class is being judged by a different sponsoring country. Results for the show will be announced on July 3rd, 2021.

Team Hong Kong Pony Club

Class 1	Class 2	Class 3	Class 4	Class 5
Lilly Hirth	Victoria Evrard	Julie Bardin	Sophie Bater & Charli Haddican	Oskar Boekhorst
Fenella Millen	Kate Lumsden	Sophie Bater	Sarah Broderick & Charmaine Ip	Chiara De’eb
Evie Sum	Alexis Shie	Ashley Gale	India Gray & Kamila Wilson	Lyndsay Son
Jessica Lin (Equuleus Beijing)	Anita Qian	Eva Morton	Kate Lumsden & Alexis Shie	Wang Yihao (Equuleus Beijing)

Other riders from Hong Kong Pony Club competing in this show for International Teams

• Class 1: Kate Lui
• Class 2: Sarah Broderick and Marcus Choy
• Class 3: Charli Haddican and Ethan Chung
• Class 4: Eva Morten & Poppi Higgins
• Class 5: Denise Yung
  

Congratulations to eight candidates who passed C Test at LWSC this morning.

Our selection committee is delighted to announce the Hong Kong Pony Club Team for the Pony Club International Alliance (PCIA) Virtual Dressage Show taking place for the first time next month.

We are very grateful for all the expressions of interest received from our members. We hope those who have not been selected this time do not lose heart and will join us in our Summer Dressage Festival instead... more information is available on the events page of our website.

PCIA is an affiliation of official Pony Clubs from around the world founded in 2005 to promote collaboration and international exchanges. Apart from Hong Kong Pony Club, teams from six countries will be participating in this virtual show, including New Zealand, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa.

Well done to seven new C Testers who passed their assessment at LWSC last Saturday 22nd May.

In no particular order ... India Gray, Evie Sum, Fenella Millen, Kamila Wilson, Furla Ng, Jeffrey Wong and Kate Lui

And a big thank you to our examiners Jo Eling and Christian Allderidge.

This spring we are so grateful to the instructors at CEEC and LWSC for facilitating our new approach to offering D and D+ Level Efficiency Testing in their regular lessons. This offers a neat solution to carry on with high quality efficiency testing during the pandemic while avoiding group gatherings.

 

Congratulations to all members who successfully completed their D and D+ Efficiency Tests at CEEC and LWSC in April and early May.

D Test: Eve Stamper, Furla Ng, Harry Savagar, Jeffrey Wong, Kate Lui, Lindsay Son and Skye Letcher

D+ Test: Eve Stamper, Furla Ng, Jeffrey Wong, Kate Lui and Kate Lui

Congratulations to everyone who participated and did so well in the first round of the Hong Kong Virtual Equitation Series (March 2021.) 

Thank you to our esteemed judge in the UK, Deborah Coulson, as well as the team at LWSC and all the other riding centres for making this series possible.

The results for March are now in! Check out our padlet to see all the winning entries and more...

Fantastic time had by all at Pony Club Easter Camp on April 5th and 6th. It was wonderful to finally be back at Tuen Mun Public Riding School! The kids had an amazing time vaulting, riding bareback (and backwards!), playing mounted games, painting the ponies, Easter egg hunting... and so much more. There is just so much fun to be had in this beautiful facility.

Big thank you also to Joelle, Jessica, Sing, Mo, Ivy, Vicky, Andrew, Shuen, Sarah, Ethan, Ashlyn and Oskar for instructing and volunteering.

More photos available on our padlet...

It's been a tricky year to organise group activities but we've finally managed to host another round of Pony Club C Testing. Congratulations to our latest batch of new C Testers and thank you to Louise Sanderson for conducting the examination at Clear Water Bay Equestrian Centre on Easter Sunday (4th April 2021.)

Well done to our new C-Testers (in alphabetical order): Chiara De'eb, Ella Legere, Eve Stamper, Leelani Neveux, Lilly Hirth and Lindsay Son