Coonabarabran Pony Club in Coonabarabran, New South Wales | Community organisation

Coonabarabran Pony Club

Locality: Coonabarabran, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6842 3636

Address: Coonabarabran Showground 2357 Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.coonabarabran.pcansw.org.au/

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25.01.2022 What a fantastic day Coonabarabran Pony club had at their Ribbon day, our winner of the kids hamper was Charli Wright congratulations Charli.

24.01.2022 1st Rally for 2021 Sunday February 7th 9 am start Please bring a plate for morning tea and $5 for lunch. RSVP needed in advance for numbers.1st Rally for 2021 Sunday February 7th 9 am start Please bring a plate for morning tea and $5 for lunch. RSVP needed in advance for numbers.

23.01.2022 Are you a Member Protection Information Officer, or looking to become one in 2021? The Office of Sport is running a workshop in December which consists of two one hour webinars. Read more and book your place here https://pcansw.org.au//member-protection-information-offic

23.01.2022 Ok how will it all work???? From 7:30am the office will be open for nominations, payment (eftpos available), hand in SJ cards & helmet tagging. Dressage (3 arenas from 8am) Arena 1 9&u12, Arena 2 12&u14, Arena 3 14&u17 to start with from 8am. Put your name on whiteboards at each arena. Listen to loud speaker for updates. Hacking will start at 9am sharp with led handler for all age groups. We hope to be done by 11 ... SJ from 11am, Arena 1 (yard) starting at E grade, Arena 2 (bunted off) starting at C grade, Arena 3 (sand arena) F grade cross rails. Listen carefully for announcements

22.01.2022 Did you know that there are no minimum ages for starting any of our eight proficiency certificates? Now you can start as soon as you are ready! To see what each... certificate involves - or to do a self assessment, visit our Syllabus page at: https://ponyclubaustralia.com.au/syllabus/ #noholdingback #whenyoureready #areyouready #justsaywhen

22.01.2022 Our pony club is very lucky to have this family’s knowledge.

20.01.2022 Have you checked out our fact sheet for Jumping Equitation yet - Discipline of the Month for September? It's a great resource. We would love to know who has app...lied some of this information with their horse at home and which clubs have incorporated Jumping Equitation into their rallies/musters this month. #jumpingequitation #showjumping #horseriding #disciplineofthemonth #alifewithhorsesstartshere https://ponyclubaustralia.com.au//08-Working-Equitation-Se See more

20.01.2022 To all those kiddies attending Ribbon day bring $2 and go into the raffle for a fantastic kids hamper raffle so many good things you will love. It will be drawn on the day so come on down to the canteen area to grab 1, 2 or more tickets, the more tickets in the box more chance you'll win. There is 15 items come check it out on Saturday.

18.01.2022 Get those nominations in for this great event! Jude

17.01.2022 Can those who are coming to the camps please Confirm spots, 2 spots left in first camp 5,6,7 jan, 10 spots left second camp 19,20,21 jan flick me a text 0400524511 Can those who are coming to the camps please Confirm spots, 2 spots left in first camp 5,6,7 jan, 10 spots left second camp 19,20,21 jan flick me a text 0400524511

17.01.2022 Anna & Jess AVAILABLE LESSONS Friday 15th Jan = Jess 1:45pm group CC lesson 60/80cm Saturday 16th Jan = early morning SJ available or spaces available in t...he 11:45 60cm SJ group, 1 dressage lesson left at 4:45pm Please contact me ASAP to confirm any of these last spots

16.01.2022 From Saturday 26 September, interregional community sporting competitions can recommence without restricting these activities to regions or zones, where there i...s a COVID19 Safety Plan for the community sporting activity in place. The advice provided in August regarding limiting spectators to one parent per child, and inter-region sport and recreation activities has been removed, however organisations must still ensure their activity is delivered in compliance with the Public Health Order and the COVID-19 Safety Plan requirements. This includes the requirement to adhere to the 500-person limit for community sport activities (including participants, officials and spectators) and adhering to the one person per four square metre rule. Organisations and spectators must also ensure that physical distancing of at least 1.5 metres is maintained between people that do not come from the same household. If this is unable to be achieved wearing a mask is recommended. Clubs are instructed to update their risk assessments with this new advice. Read more here https://pcansw.org.au/media/news/covid-19-update2

13.01.2022 What about a local ring judge anyone keen for a few hours judging in the ring tomorrow 9-11??What about a local ring judge anyone keen for a few hours judging in the ring tomorrow 9-11??

13.01.2022 Meet the 2nd of our 3 NEW national values awards: the PCA Welfare Warrior Award. The Welfare Warrior recognition award is awarded to a PCA member who has put th...e horse’s health and wellbeing needs before their own on a notable occasion, or delivered a project that addresses the mental and physical aspects of horse welfare and wellbeing across one or more of the following areas: nutrition, health, environment, behaviour and human interaction. The award has been introduced to recognise extraordinary efforts above and beyond what would ordinarily be expected of a Pony Club Australia member. Examples include: The innovative dissemination of welfare-related information and education, creating a new resource, designing or installing improved facilities, removing physical and social barriers to improved horse welfare (or addressing enablers), arranging for a workshop or forum with an expert speaker, conducting research to determine current knowledge, writing a grant to purchase Large Animal Rescue equipment for the club, creating a poster/webpage/mobile app, writing policy or guidelines, etc. The activity should benefit more than one horse, have direct impact on pony club horses and have direct or indirect impact on other horses. To nominate a PCA Welfare Warrior, please complete the form at https://form.jotform.com//pony-club-values-awards-nominati #horse #welfare #values #ponyclub #citizen #recognition #achievement

12.01.2022 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Funding call to guide new blood into thoroughbred industry Written by Paul Vettise - TDNANZ... Attracting young people to the thoroughbred industry has long been a challenge and comments from Sydney trainers Chris Waller and Mark Newnham have again brought attention to the issue. Thoroughbred Industry Careers was established to help address this employment and education void, yet securing a sustainable funding strategy for the organisation remains a constant challenge. The low number of young Australians choosing racing and breeding as their career path of choice has become an even greater concern after the COVID-imposed travel limitations of 2020 limited access to international employees. Chris Waller believes changes to stable working hours is paramount, with early starts and late finishes a major turn-off to the younger generation. He believes starting trackwork later in the morning is one move in the right direction. Who really wants their children to be starting work at 3am, or having to drive to work or catch public transport at that time?’’ Waller said. And who actually wants to do it? Only those who have ‘toughed’ it out and had to do it. But we are not going to get new people into the game unless they have a mad love for horses and racing, and that is getting few and far between. While Mark Newnham doesn’t believe early starts are the central issue, he thinks wider promotion of the industry to schools and pony clubs is a positive and necessary move. Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC) is a national education and marketing initiative working feverishly in that area. Funding a major issue TIC was established in 2018 and is a not-for-profit industry organisation, which aims to promote careers by introducing grass roots programs, facilitating best practice education, training and mentoring pathways for those entering the industry and to assist in developing retention and welfare strategies to create fulfilling and rewarding long-term careers. However, TIC Founder Lindy Maurice said attracting ongoing funding for their work to assist young people into racing and breeding careers was a major issue. I initially went to seven organisations for help with funding and they are Arrowfield Stud, Godolphin, Tony McEvoy, the Australian Turf Club, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Lindsay Park and Chris Waller. Those seven gave a three-year commitment which got us rolling, but we need a long-term and sustainable funding strategy to continue, then grow. Arrowfield Principal John Messara was one of the first foundation sponsors and is a major supporter and advocate of TIC. It’s never been more challenging than it is today to attract staff to work in the thoroughbred industry. I cannot stress enough how important, what Lindy Maurice is doing with Thoroughbred Industry Careers, is for the future of our industry, Messara said. We think it’s so vital that we reallocated the Arrowfield bloodstock sales levy funds over to Thoroughbred Industry Careers when we became a foundation member in 2018. The bloodstock sales levy was established 15 or so years ago because the industry had important international marketing goals to achieve, but today I believe the biggest threat to our future is attracting and training the next generation of employees. We need great people with the necessary horsemanship skills rearing, riding and handling our horses. Racing New South Wales and Racing South Australia have also assisted TIC along with Racing Victoria and Racing Queensland who have contributed to the cause for the last two years. I'm immensely grateful for these initial partners, but unfortunately it's not a consistent revenue source. Every year I need to throw the hat around again to keep going, Maurice said. We are are a national organisation and need a national funding plan. Sponsorship packages announced A positive funding step is the announcement of sponsorship packages at varying financial entry levels, to allow businesses and individuals assist TIC to achieve its goals. People can take a Diamond, Gold, Silver and Bronze-level sponsorship package to donate funding toward TIC, Maurice said. People can take a Diamond, Gold, Silver and Bronze-level sponsorship package for the greater good of the industry. - Lindy Maurice The Diamond Sponsorship is more than $25,000, Gold Sponsorship $20,000 (+ GST), Silver Sponsorship $10,000 (+ GST) and Bronze Sponsorship $5000 (+ GST). Business logos or individual names will appear on the TIC website should contributors choose as acknowledgement for their generous support. TDN AusNZ are proud to commit to an annual bronze sponsorship package and would like to encourage industry organisations to do the same. "What Lindy has already achieved on very limited resources is exceptional," said Vicky Leonard, TDN AusNZ co-owner and Managing Director. "It would be wonderful to see the industry band together with financial support so Lindy can continue her great work and grow TIC further. "Gary King and I were the lucky beneficiaries of an industry education courtesy of the Godolphin Flying Start program and are incredibly grateful for the career opportunities it opened for us. TIC is providing that open door for many young Australians, and most importantly, reaching those who may not have considered the thoroughbred industry as a career option otherwise." Reaching the grassroots Maurice has established several promotional initiatives to reach young Australians who already have an equine passion, providing content and resources so they and their parents can understand career pathways available in the thoroughbred industry. We sponsored the National Pony Club National Championships in September this year and that attracts the best riders from all over Australia, so is a great source of top young horse people. Jockey Rachel King speaking with some Thoroughbred Industry Careers trainees | Image courtesy of Emma Hale It’s just one of the things we do throughout the year to showcase industry careers to the grassroots of Australia. It's an example of what the sponsorship money and donations will be used for, to drive greater awareness of the careers available. The work TIC is doing is benefitting the whole industry. The money you'll be chipping in is directly to help secure the industry’s future. Lindy Maurice When you are face-to-face with people at grassroots level you start building trust and people start thinking 'these people are out here helping our kids'. We have already put 70 trained people in the workplace, but we still have so much more work to do and need more funding to continue to reach young people. The work TIC is doing is benefitting the whole industry. The money you'll be chipping in is directly to help secure the industry’s future." Pony Racing program Another project Maurice is keen to launch with the assistance of extra funding is pong racing in Australia. I see that as being great for the racing industry because we would have all these kids racing on country racetracks in all different areas. You look at every country town and everyone is at a cricket oval or at rugby or whatever and no-one is at the races because it’s an adult game, it’s a gambling game. But it is much more than that, it’s a sport where we race horses and why couldn’t kids on their ponies be racing on all of our racetracks across the country. We’re saying we’ve got no apprentice jockeys or trackriders and other staff and up until TIC we weren’t communicating with the world out there and had no links to kids riding horses. We have programs to convert people who are interested into trained staff. For the greater good we’ve got a huge job to do and we need more support. We’ve made good headway, but we’ve only just scratched the surface. To become a sponsor of Thoroughbred Industry Careers click here https://tbindustrycareers.com.au/sponsorship/

10.01.2022 Don't forget to sign up for tonight's Keeping Connected Zoom meeting at 6.30pm! Register your interest now by email [email protected] https://pcansw.org.au/media/news/keeping-connected-meeting1

09.01.2022 Looking to future events in 2021 Jude

09.01.2022 Sadly we have decided to postpone the proposed SJ/Dressage, Combined training/Equitation weekend. It was a very busy planned weekend trying to provide an oppor...tunity for members to be out & about. The predicted high temperatures affect both horses and people and the club is committed to the welfare of both. A big thank you to the riders who had nominated and the Judges/ pencillers who had committed to this weekend. We hope you will join us in the cooler months of 2021. See more

09.01.2022 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO?????? Entries close tonight

09.01.2022 Hey, coaches! Head on over to the coaches tab at our website to find two new resources to help with your lesson planning. You can now download template and diag...ram documents that you can edit to suit your own purposes #PCANCAS #coaching #lessons #planning https://ponyclubaustralia.com.au/pcancas/ See more

09.01.2022 Entry to our EVA45 - CCN2* event is now OPEN on Nominate & closes Friday2/10 please be quick ! Great news the NSW Govt are lifting inter regional restrictions o...n sport tomorrow 26/9 ... we have a covid plan for our event and Coonabarabran Show Ground are a registered covid safe business .. please everyone observe the rules so we can continue eventing throughout NSW for the rest of the season. See more

07.01.2022 For those attending the Ribbin day 14th November can you please make sure to fill one of these forms out for everyone who attends thankyou.

06.01.2022 Jess & Anna will be in Coona 15/16th Jan - pm or text Lucy for bookings 0488422171, places filling fast .......

06.01.2022 Horse Section - Mendooran Show Saturday 20th March 2021 Looking forward to a great show - remember to QR code on gate entry.

06.01.2022 Free Poster - Footfalls (Reloaded version) Do you know the order in which a horse uses his legs in walk, trot, canter and gallop? It's a handy skill that help...s with your riding (see your certificate manuals). Please note, the walk starts with a foreleg as per this video clip provided by Dr Andrew McLean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaufEDMuumE He added that this idea of the hind leg first stems from the dressage concept of the hindquarters being the powerhouse of forward movement. That is true, they provide the power for forward movement, but the first leg to move to walk from halt is always a foreleg. The only time a hind leg is ever the first to move is when it so far behind that it's almost in Swing phase itself. Certainly a horse standing square or even remotely square-ish moves the front leg first. You can download a clear copy of the poster from the PCA website under 'Horse Resources' by following this link: https://ponyclubaustralia.com.au//Footfalls-of-the-Horse-n #horsepaces #footfalls #trot #canter #gallop #footfalls #alifewithhorsesstartshere

06.01.2022 Wee Waa holiday riding school

06.01.2022 In an effort to help riders improve their marks the EADJC has put together a list of the common areas where riders tend to throw away marks whilst riding their test, enjoy.

05.01.2022 HELLO PONY CLUBBERS What is happening at a CPC??? Next Meeting 21st Oct Next Rally 1st NovHELLO PONY CLUBBERS What is happening at a CPC??? Next Meeting 21st Oct Next Rally 1st Nov

04.01.2022 **The following post shows images of an equine stomach post mortem. ** STOMACH SIZE I get asked all the time about feed and all manner of horse care topics. Alo...ng with all of the usual discussions about type of feed for particular horses, weights of feed etc... there is the topic of HOW MUCH to feed. How many dippers of chaff, how full should the 20litre bucket be, 1 feed per day or two??? Through the amazing process of dissections we have been involved in, we always look at the stomach. Sometimes finding ulcers or bots and varying degrees of health of the stomach lining. One thing I’ve noticed is that the larger horses of mixed breed (say between 14-17hh) is that the stomach size doesn’t vary all that much. Horses are grazing animals, we know this. Horses do well on smaller feeds more often, we also know this. A lot of people struggle to truly grasp this until they see it or it is explained thoroughly enough for them to fully understand from an anatomy perspective. Here I will show you a stomach (approx 15.2hh tb mare) she had had a normal breakfast but also a big special bucket of carrots and apples right before being laid to rest (not her daily feed, just a one off treat bucket) and then the contents of that stomach in relation to a very average sized 15 litre tub. I will also show you the absolute MAXIMUM sized feed I would ever feed a horse of that size. There are plenty of great articles around that talk about overflow of undigested feed into the hindgut and the subsequent problems, feed sizes and ulcers, gut health in all forms but I’m not here to talk about that. I am simply sharing in order to give the average horse owner a deeper understanding of the relative lack of size of the average sized horses stomach ** This post is not about what to feed or even how often. That will be very specific to each horse, it’s environment and situation. Please seek advice from your trusted equine veterinarian or independent nutritionist. ** Dissection with thanks and in conjunction with Southern Holistic Equine & Ev’s Equine Services

04.01.2022 Entries for our event Eva45 - CNN2* (10/11 Oct) will be up on nominate this Friday 25/9 ... plenty of covered stalls ... lots of room for covid style powered ca...mp sites ... amenities with hot water...we have listed 4 motels within 2 minutes walk on nominate. #showjumping #dressage #dressagehorse #horse #horsesofinstagram #horsephotography #equestrian #coonabarabran #warrumbungles #eventing #thoroughbred #warmblood #horseshow #crosscountry #equestriansofinstagram #equestrianlife #showhorse #stable

02.01.2022 https://laceymillerphotography.smugmug.com/Binnaway-Show-F/ Photography from Binnaway show