31/10/2026
🖤🐾 PUPPIES, POSH PONIES & A LITTLE HALLOWEEN MADNESS! 🎃🐴
Oh, my darlings… what a DEVILISHLY DELIGHTFUL DAY! 🖤🤍 Our Halloween Rally was an absolute SCREAM, and what a pleasure it was to welcome our friends from Whitford Pony Club!
We began with a spectacular parade of fancy dress, judged by our wonderful Life Member, Ann Dickens, who clearly had a soft spot for a certain Wizard of Oz! 🌈👠 The costumes were incredible, the creativity outstanding and some of those little creatures were positively TERRIFYING!
Then the madness began! 👻
The monsters split into groups and rotated through barrel racing, bending, mug races, quizzes and 6-bar jumping. The 6-bar was possibly the scariest part of the day for a few parents, but thankfully the “Ghost of Lost Strides” - Sarah Elizabeth Tucker, was there to coach our brave little souls through it! 🐴💀
But do you know what my absolute favourite part was? It wasn’t the laughter, the smiles, the adorable ponies or even the fabulous costumes.
It was watching riders step up and make the day magical for everyone else. 💙
They demonstrated responsibility well beyond their years, especially because most of them are only 14yrs old!
But more importantly, they put the NZPCA core values into action: Togetherness, Participating and Contributing. Even when their own crazy sport horses weren’t suited to games, they still showed up, took responsibility, encouraged riders and made sure everyone felt included.
Here is a very special mention to our wonderful helpers:
🐴 Sav, Poppy & Penelope – Barrel Racing, quiz, 6-Bar and a Water Jump Walk
🎃 Delta – The Quiz
👻 Faris & Isabella – 6-Bar
🧙♀️ Geneva, Gina & Violet – Bending and Mug Race
The games finished just 15 minutes late (a Halloween miracle!) with a magnificent feast, and congratulations to Kim a Whitford Pony Club for taking out Best Spooky Plate prize with her cookie spiders 🕷️🏆
Fabulous costumes, pumping music, gorgeous ponies and an incredible community. Thank you to everyone who made it happen!
Until next Halloween, my little darlings…
🖤🤍🐾 love C 💋