Pony Club Conference

On Tuesday Marion (District Commissioner for the Llangeinor Pony Club), Kath (Chief instructor for the Llangeinor Pony Club) and myself travelled up to Aintree in Liverpool for the Pony Club Conference. We stayed in a guest house in Aintree tuesday night and arrived at the conference at 9.30 the following morning. After the general welcome and Coffee we were seated in the Conference hall. Cherry Mitchel gave a welcome speech. Cherry is the newly appointed chairperson of Pony Club now that Mary Anderson has retired. Mary will be greatly missed as she was our Area representitive before she became Chairperson, we have enjoyed a good working relationship with much help and support for the centres from Mary over the years. Several speakers gave very interesting and informative talks on topics such as the pony club database, the importance of feeding fibre in diets and Grass Sickness. There was also a talk and short film by Major Erica Bridge RHA who is the first female Commanding Officer of the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery and is responsible for 168 soldiers and officers and 120 horses based in their St John’s Wood barracks, anyone considering a career with horses might find it very interesting, I was amazed how much they do. This isn’t the video I saw yesterday, I don’t think its been generally released yet but it is similar, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjeJ3hBypE . HRH Princess Anne joined us for lunch and gave a short speech after lunch as she is now stepping down as president of the Pony Club. The guest Speaker after Lunch was Ginger McCain the trainer of three times National Winner Red Rum. Ginger McCain is 77 years of age now but gave a highly entertaining speech about his love of racing, Liverpool and his career with Red Rum. Liverpool racecourse is a magnificent centre and with the Grand National only weeks away you could already feel the buzz of excitement. If you ever have the opportunity to go its well worth it. I went many years ago and stood at Beechers Brook, the atmosphere is Electric.

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