Pillars of the Pony Club
ANYONE who knows about teaching children to ride will tell you that the pony is the key. The right ones will nurse the most anxious rider into chest-beating confidence. The wrong one can quickly take them back to square one.
No surprises then, that the best Pony Club ponies very rarely go on the market. Getting hold of them requires focus; staking them out at shows and hunter trials and acting quickly to secure that vital first refusal. The timing might be out, but sometimes you simply have to grab them when you can.
This was the case for Tori Haworth when her mother, a former district commissioner (DC) of the Lord Leconfield Hunt branch of the Pony Club, discovered that 12hh Wolfie was coming up for sale.
“I wasn’t sure I was ready for a pony,” Tori says. “Leo [Tori’s eldest child] was only three, but my mother told me Wolfie was too good to let go.”
It quickly became clear
