The schedule and entry form for the DPS Spring Stallion and Breed Show are now available.
Entries close on Friday 12th April
Author Archive: April Lawn
Stallion Licensing 2024
Stallion Licence application forms for 2024 are now available and can be found on our Colts and Stallions page.
Please be in touch with the Secretary if you’re looking to license a colt so forms and a DNA sample bag can be sent out to you. You must ensure that the colt has a clear FIS test ahead of applying.
Colts can be licensed from two years old. Any stallion three years and over used for showing must be licensed.
2024 SPARKS Mare Sheets
SPARKS mare sheets for the 2024 breeding season are available now!
Please contact dalesponysociety@gmail.com to request sheets for your mares or for more information (provide a list of registered names).
Sheets are available for any mare 20 years or younger. Mares must be under your ownership or keepership with the Society.
For those wanting more information on the SPARKS breeding tool, an article will be published in the upcoming Yearbook. Please ensure your membership is up to date so there is no delay in receiving your Yearbook once they’ve been printed.
Many thanks to Andy Dell at Nottingham Trent University for once again providing the Society and its members with vital information to aid the conservation and survival of our much loved breed!
DPS Ridden Dales Pony of the Year 2024
For your chance to qualify for the illustrious title of Dales Pony Society Ridden Pony of the Year, please see our list of qualifying shows and full information.
The 2024 final will be held on 6th October at the NCPA Northern Spectacular Show, with prize money and sashes to the winner and reserve, kindly sponsored by Fourforest Dales and Penmire/Stanmar Stud.
2024 Dates for your Diary
Key show and event dates for 2024 have now been added to our event listings.
A list of Affiliated Shows is also available.
More dates will be added as they’re confirmed.
Foal and Yearling Show
New for 2023 – Yearling classes!
The schedule and entry form for the 2023 Foal and Yearling Show is now available.
Saturday 11th November 10am at Barnard Castle Auction Mart, DL12 8AD.
Entries close on Saturday 4th November.
Sponsorship for the Foal and Yearling Show and our 2024 Shows is greatly appreciated, please get in touch with our Show Secretary for further information.
DPS Photo Show
The DPS Midlands Area (11) are kindly running an online photo show again for 2023.
Entries Close on October 25th
Class and further information available in the Schedule: MidlandsDPSPhotoShow2023
New Clydesdale Area 12 Show incorporating Dales Pony Classes
Sunday 20th August 2023 at 10:30 am
Darlington Farmers Auction Mart
Humbleton, Darlington, DL2 2YH
Changes to Dales Pony Society Administration from 1st July 2023
Important – Please Read Carefully
As the last step in our transitional change to Society Officials following the retirement of long-standing Secretary Jo Ashby and Treasurer Ian Graham, the Society are bringing the secretarial work currently handled by Pedigree Livestock Services back in-house. From 1st July, our Honorary Secretary, April Lawn (née Hughes), will be taking over all aspects of secretarial work currently covered by PLS, including pony registrations, transfers, changes to passports and Society memberships.
We would like to thank Andy Ryder and his team at Pedigree Livestock Services Ltd. for their work over the last two years, in particular Lucie Graham whom many of you will have liaised with. The Society office at Holme House, Carlisle, will close on 30th June.
For further information and contact details for April, please see the Secretary Change Notification Flyer.