OH boy! About 2 weeks before we leave for New Zealand, and there is so much to get done at home before I can even consider leaving. My name is Kiersti Wylie, I am now 19 and have attained my HA. I live on a training and breeding ranch that hosts the Sandia Creek Ranch Pony Club Riding Center. This is where our team will have a few days to train on a variety of horses to prepare to “bring back the Nation Cup” in Show Jumping.
At my family’s ranch
we start all the horses ourselves, so I have a lot of experience on young green horses. All most all the horses I show, we have started from the ground up, unless it’s a horse I got as a catch ride.
To better prepare for the Inter Pacific Exchange I went to Palm Springs and Jury rode for the Pentathlon World Cup qualifier. This gave me a great opportunity to ride a lot of horses and pick up some more interesting techniques for schooling each of them.
Being selected for this exchange was only a dream and I still can’t believe it is reality . Pony Club offers so many amazing opportunities for all ages of horse crazy riders. For this I am grateful , and I hope to encourage more riders to try the opportunities offered by pony club. I spent all last weekend helping a whole batch of our new little Pony Clubbers learn the ropes at their first show; a hunter pace and junior field hunter championship that I helped our local hunt put on . 
They all were amazing and not only did they take grand care of their ponies and have stellar team work but they also brought home the 1st place in every division. I rode four of the younger horses that I am working with; the 3 on XC were brilliant! And the one in jack pot jumpers cleaned up with over 100 points in front of 2nd place, what a super star she is becoming
I can’t wait to meet everyone. This is going to be AMAZING!
Ok off to bed for me, early day tomorrow.
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