ABOUT PONY CLUB
Pony Club is a not-for-profit, volunteer, educational organization
dedicated to teaching young people riding and care of horses and ponies.
It's is an international movement that began in Great Britain in 1928.
Today Pony Club is in 42 countries, with an estimated total membership
of over 130,000 world wide.
The United States Pony Club --- USPC --- began in 1954 with 18 clubs.
Two of those original clubs are in our region! Our own 16 clubs
are part of the 635 active clubs and over 12,500 individual members who
make up the United States Pony Clubs.
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ABOUT OUR REGION
The United States Pony Club organization is divided into 41 regions,
each of which supervises the individual Clubs located within its area.
Our Region, New York/ Upper Connecticut, starts at the
Connecticut/Rhode Island state line on the East and runs to the Delaware
River on the West.
Our Region includes all of Connecticut (except for Fairfield County),
and Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia , and Putnam Counties, and just a
sliver of Westchester county in New York State.
The 16 clubs that constitute out Region had a total of 411 members as
of Nov 16, 2002.
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