About Taunton Vale

The Taunton Vale Branch of The Pony Club is an active friendly club with over 50 members ranging from lead rein right up to seniors.  We enjoy many varied activities from rallies, training, mini and senior camps, tetrathlon and triathlon, mounted games, showjumping, eventing, dressage, social events, trips out and competitions.

We have teams and individuals competition in Showjumping, Eventing, Dressage, Tetrathlon and Triathlon as well as Polo and Pony Racing. We also have members who have represented the branch at National Level.

We have boys too – we are not just a club full of girls we have many active boys in our club too, that come to rallies, camps and training and play an active role in our teams – we are always happy to have more!!

If you are interested in joining us the more the merrier, please contact our membership secretary Rachel Holden rjhmrcvs@gmail.com

Our History

The Pony Club was born in 1929, but not all present branches started then.

In 1934 there were 103 branches, in 1947 there were 167 and now there are around 350.

Prior to 1971 the Taunton Vale branch covered the present Taunton Vale Harriers  PC area, and also that of the Taunton Vale branch, ie. there was only one branch covering the whole area. It was huge, too big to manage and not practical so it was split in two, initially the two new branches were called Taunton Vale West and Taunton Vale.

In the 1980s the Taunton Vale Harriers (Hunt) registered with the Masters of Foxhounds Association (having previously been a pack of harriers), and Taunton Vale West became known as Taunton Vale Harriers.