How it all started…

Isn’t life a strange journey? You never really know where you’re heading until you get there!
Although I have loved, admired and been involved with horses for the last 50+ years, I didn’t think it would lead me to develop a website for young people who love horses.
Looking back, it now seems logical. After all, I was horse-mad from about the age of five, and trained and showed horses during my teens and twenties. A career in marketing, advertising and communication got in the way for a while, but for the last 14 years I have been teaching children at our local Pony Club how to ride and, more importantly, how to look after their horses.
One day, I had this idea and when I told my husband, he didn’t laugh at me – he also thought it was a good idea. Of course, turning an idea into a reality is always a lot harder than you think, so the development,research, writing, sourcing of material and design has taken more than two years.You may be wondering why we called our site ‘Its My Pony’ instead of ‘Its My Horse’… well, as many horsey people know, we often call our horses ponies as a term of affection and fun.
That feeling is what we hope to bring to this site – lots of love for horses and lots of fun for our members.
The great thing about horses is that it is a journey that covers 55 million years, so it touches on topics as different as evolution, wars, sports, historical figures and much more. In fact, nothing much has happened in the last 55 million years without horses being involved in some way!
As time goes on the site will continue to grow, with additional content, competitions or biographies being posted every week or two. And you can use the Forum to post your thoughts and any suggestions on how we can make the ItsMyPony site even better.
In the meantime, explore and take a tour. We hope you like the site.

We are all Pony Lovers…

We believe that you love horses as much as we do and that you would never knowingly hurt one, either mentally or physically.
So we thought an oath was a good way to remind us all how to treat our favourite animal every day.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t own a horse or see one every day. It just matters that you promise to do the right thing when the opportunity arises.
Please read the IMP Oath by clicking on the picture of the horse below:

If you agree with these promises, then you can see a full certificate that you can download and print out to keep by clicking on the arrow below.

It is a PDF file, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it. If you dont have Acrobat, you can click on the symbol below to download it free from the official Adobe Acrobat site which will open in a new window.