La Perouse Pony Club

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🏇 PONY CLUB NSW SPONSORED RIDERS — EQUIMILLION 2026 🏇

Pony Club NSW is excited to announce the five riders who will receive sponsored entries to compete at Equimillion 2026 as part of our partnership with Racing NSW.

Congratulations to:
✨ Dressage — Phoebe Marr on Fuey (Fu Lum)
✨ Show Jumping — Jack Makim on Biggy (Peru)
✨ Show Jumping — Matilda Nicol on Harley (Elvis)
✨ Eventing — Mara McGavern on Friday (Araluen Bella)
✨ Eventing — Laila Lynch on Haze (Grey Haze)

These riders will have the opportunity to represent Pony Club NSW at one of NSW’s biggest celebrations of the Thoroughbred and equestrian sport, held at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre from Friday 2nd to Monday 5th October 2026.

We received a fantastic response to this opportunity and thank every rider who submitted an application. It was wonderful to see the quality of riders, horses and stories represented across our Pony Club community.

💙 COME AND EXPERIENCE EQUIMILLION!
There is plenty for Pony Club members and families to see and do across the four days, including elite Thoroughbred competition, educational masterclasses, the Equine Education Centre, Stockman’s Challenge, Trade Village, live entertainment, family activities and more.

And make sure you join us on Monday 5th October, when Pony Club NSW takes over the Hacking Arena for our own Thoroughbred Combined Performance Championship from 8am–4pm. Entries Opening on the 12th September via Global Entires online. Watch this space for more info soon.

🎟️ Free 4-day spectator passes are available, so gather your Pony Club friends and family and make a weekend of it!

Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce each of our sponsored riders, share their Equimillion journey and bring you plenty more about what you can experience across the event.

We wish Phoebe, Jack, Matilda, Mara and Laila the very best — we can’t wait to cheer you on! 🎉🐴

When your horse is away at Pony Club camp or an event, their usual routine can change completely.

At home, many horses have access to pasture or forage for much of the day. Away from home, they may instead spend long periods stabled, yarded or tied to a float, which means we have to provide the forage they would normally seek out for themselves.

Under the Pony Club Australia Horse Welfare Policy, it is a breach of the policy to allow a horse at a Pony Club event to go for more than six hours without access to food.

But that six-hour limit is not the goal.

Horses are naturally designed to spend a large part of their day eating and foraging. The PCA Horse Welfare Policy notes that horses would normally spend more than 60% of the day grazing, and describes their need to eat, chew and search for high-fibre food for around 13–16 hours a day.

So if your horse is away for a night, a weekend or several days, it’s worth looking at their whole 24-hour feeding plan.

A biscuit of hay in the morning and a hard feed at night may mean your horse has technically been “fed”, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they have had enough forage.

As a general guide, horses should receive around 1.5–2% of their bodyweight each day in forage dry matter, unless there is a veterinary or nutritional reason to manage them differently. For a 500 kg horse, that’s around 7.5–10 kg of forage dry matter per day.

Why does it matter?

Regular access to forage supports normal gut function and gives horses the opportunity to chew and forage as they are naturally driven to do. Long periods without forage can affect both physical and mental welfare, particularly when horses are also being worked and spending more time confined than they would at home.

If you’re heading away with your horse, check:

• What forage is being provided by the camp or event?
• Will there be enough across the whole day and overnight?
• If not, how much do you need to bring yourself?
• Will your horse have forage available during long periods in a stable, yard or at the float?
• And will clean water be readily available? You will most likely need to pack a safe, non-spillable container.

Pony Club camps and competitions are a big change of routine for our horses. Planning their forage and water properly is just as important as packing the saddle, rugs and feed buckets.

🤔 Don’t just ask, “Has my horse been fed?” Ask, “Has my horse had enough opportunity to eat and forage today?”

Lola and Karrot have done it again! 🏆🎉

State Mounted Games Reserve Champions, and then backing it up as part of the Zone 26 Junior Team to take out Reserve Champion in the Sporting!

Absolutely smashing it! What a team! 🥳👏

A huge congratulations to LPPC member Lola Pemberton, who is competing at the Zone 26 Mounted Games Pairs Championships this weekend!

Even more exciting, Lola and her pony Karrot have been selected to represent Zone 26 at the State Sporting and Mounted Games Championships this August.

We are so proud of all your hard work and wish you and Karrot the very best of luck this weekend and at States! 💙🤍👏

Congratulations to our outstanding Zone 26 riders selected to represent at the 2026 Pony Club NSW State Mounted Games & Team Sporting Championships!

Your dedication, teamwork, and sportsmanship have been exceptional — and we’re thrilled to see you flying the Zone 26 colours at Camden this August. 💙

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Huge congratulations to Abby & Clancy on their results at the Pony Club NSW State Combined Training and One Day Event! 🥈✨
2nd in the CT C Grade and 2nd in the C grade ODE; such an amazing achievement. It’s fantastic to see them out there representing LPPC and Zone 26 so well 💙🤍

We were honoured to attend Club Matto this morning with our horses and lay a wreath in remembrance of the brave soldiers who served and sacrificed, as well as the horses who carried them.

This has been a long-standing tradition of our club, and one we are incredibly proud to continue.

Lest we forget 🤍💙