Members of the Greenville Foothills Pony Club competed in the Carolina Region Dressage Rally at FENCE. (photo submitted by Carolyn Culbertson)

GFPC compete in Carolina Region Dressage Rally March 23-25

Published 10:33am Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Greenville Foothills Pony Club (GFPC) took 16 members to the Carolina Region Dressage Rally held March 23-25 at the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center. The rally was a team competition involving 121 pony clubbers from North and South Carolina. Representing GFPC, members competed in several different divisions: the D division, the Mixed D/C division, the C division and the Qualifying division.
In the D division, Elizabeth Donohue, Amanda Fisher and Audrey Poltorak, along with their scramble mates from Pee Dee Pony Club, earned fourth overall and fourth in horse management. Also in the D division, B-rated member Rachael Wood served as a stable manager for another Pee Dee Pony Club team and not only helped to earn first overall and first in horse management, but she also assisted the team in earning the overall rally best horse management team score.

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