04/01/05

Pony Club offers programs that develop good sportsmanship, good horsemanship and maturity. It is the intention of USPC that characteristics of responsibility, moral judgment, leader ship and self-confidence, once established, carry over into other areas of life.

Accomplishment of measured goals by individual riders is acknowledged through levels of achievement, called ratings. A new member is classified as 'unrated' until such time as he or she takes an oral test and riding test to become a D1 rider. As new standards are met, riders progress to higher ratings. The ratings are, from beginner to advanced, D1, D2, D3, C1, C2, C3, B, H-A, A.