Kings Corner Pony Club sent four members to the Camino Real Regional Quiz Rally coming home with high honors and qualifying for the United States Pony Club Championships.

The Quiz Rally is a designed to test the knowledge of the Pony Clubber. There are several stations including Classroom, Mega Room, and Barns. They are also required to do a written test. Competitors may be asked to identify feed, equipment, or safety issues. Topics can include colors, breeds, conformation, first aid, horse management, competition rules and much more. They work as an individual in most cases and as a team during Mega Room.

The Kings Corner competitors were on mix teams with competitors from other clubs throughout the region.

Isabela Ibarra, 10, from Fillmore, competed as a “Jr D” and placed 2nd place with her team. Jillian Morris, 11, from Fillmore, Placed 1st with her “Jr D” team and she qualified for the Championships in Kentucky, by placing 2nd Individual.

In the “C” Division, Jasmin Parson, 24, of Thousand Oaks, place 1st place with her team and she was 2nd for individual. Bailey Brantley, 16, of Fillmore, placed 6th and both Jasmin and Bailey Qualified for the Championships.

The Championships will be held this July at the Kentucky Horse Park. Pony Club members from all over the United States and Internationally come to compete and learn. Along with the Quiz competition there are several riding competitions, including Dressage, Eventing, Show jumping and Tetrathalon. Tetrathalon is where competitors run, ride, shoot targets, and swim.

Bailey Brantley would love to take her horse, “Boy's Knight Out”, to Kentucky and is going to try to qualify for the Eventing team and Show Jumping team, and will be trying to qualify for Tetrathalon at the Rally in April. She will only be able to compete on one team and still has three more qualifying competitions ahead of her. If she qualifies for more than one discipline, and is short listed for the teams, she will have to pick the discipline she would like to do in Kentucky.

Jasmin Parson is going to double qualify in the Show Jumping with her horse “JuJu Bee Alexander” and will also be trying to qualify as a Horse Manager. Each riding team is made up of four riders and one Horse Manager. The Horse Manager is critical at Pony Club competitions because the riders are judged on their skills and safety when working around the horses and the stables.

“We may be small, but we are mighty!” says Taurie Banks, Center Administrator and Instructor of this This fledgling club. “The girls have studied hard and been practicing. I am so proud of them and I am very excited that they can be a part of such an amazing experience as the Nationals and the Pony Club Festival.”

The girls are excited and honor to represent California and Kings Corner Training Stables. They will continue to compete in the riding qualifying competitions and will be short listed on teams by the end of May. The competition is July 15 through the 18th, with the horses being shipped a few days prior.

If anyone is interested in more information about kings Corner Pony Club Riding Center may call (805) 727-3444 or go to www.kingscornerstables.com. For more information about the United States Pony Club go to www.ponycub.org.

The Kings Corner Pony Club riding Center and qualifying for the United States Pony Club Championships in Kentucky.

The girls will be competing in the Tetrathalon Rally this weekend, I will send an update after the weekend when the results and team qualifying status is released.