D2-Level Requirements

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STABLE MANAGEMENT

- Repeat Stage D1.
- Turnout: Boots or muckers. Suitable barn clothes.
- Reasons for grooming. Be able to groom and know the use of all the grooming tools with the exception of the wisp.
- Signs of good health. Signs of colic. Signs of lameness in the foreleg.
- Know what you feed your own horse and why.
- Know how to look after your own horse after strenuous work.
- Know how to measure the height of a pony.
- The parts of the foot. The signs that a foot needs re-shoeing or trimming. The points of good shoeing.
- Minor wounds and how to treat them.
- Know the good and bad points of the stable or pasture - where you keep your own horse.
- Be able to describe a horse - Colour, markings, size, sex and obvious characteristics.
- Know how to lead a horse into or out of a trailer or truck.
- Identify simple snaffle bits - egg butt, loose ring, D-ring.

RIDING

- Repeat Stage D1.
- Turnout: Pony clean, feet picked out.
- Tack: Properly adjusted and cared for.
- Rider: Hard hat with harness, boots, breeches, pin, jacket optional. Medical Armband is required.
- Balancing and suppling exercises at walk.
- Independent mount and dismount.
- Adjust girth while mounted at halt.
- Walk on a loose rein and with light contact.
- Correct position at walk, trot and canter.
- Upward and downward transitions.
- Sitting trot with and without stirrups.
- Use of Natural Aids to produce and maintain forward movement.
- Large circles - at walk, at rising trot with correct use of diagonals and at canter with correct lead.
- Trot over poles on the ground followed by small jump (2'6" maximum).
- Simple stadium course (2'6" maximum). Course to include at least 5 fences with a minimum of one ascending oxer and one change of direction.
- Ride over varied terrain, jump small jumps (2'6" maximum) in the open. - Control. Jump 3 - 4 fences over relatively flat terrain; simple verticals and logs.

Pony Club Standard Information