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HOW TO WATCH & LEARN: The Transition from Ponies to Horses and the Leap from 3′ to 3′6″

February 3, 2026

Zazou Hoffman and Little Foot at the Vermont Summer Festival, a David Mullinix PhotoThe pony hunter ring allows the rider to get a real sense of what the judge is looking for in a hunter. Because the classes are smaller, broken into small, medium, and large pony divisions, the rider and the parents can watch every round; i.e. the whole division from beginning to end. So you can see what the judge rewards in the way of conformation and form over fences as well as in the under saddle classes. Read more

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