***  Saddleview Pony Club  ***

40 years of Pony Club in the Greater Green Island of Dunedin City

1976

21st April

Public meeting at the Abbotsford Community Hall discussing the formation of a Pony Club.  A Steering Committee was appointed and it was their function to get the Pony Club formed and working.


25th April

Steering Committee met Ken Scurr to inspect his property at McMeakin Road, Abbotsford.  It was here that it was decided pony club activities would take place.

Over the next couple of months holes were filled in, fence posts and gateways erected, two toilets and jumping equipment supplied.


5th September

Opening Day for Fernhill Pony Club.

The first instructors were named: Mrs T Fairhurst, Mrs J Bates, Mrs D Green, Mrs H Marshall and Miss I King with possibly Miss C Hansen and Mrs Butler.


18th December

First gymkhana held “a real gala event with a barbeque lunch, a special programme and with Christmas in mind a Santa Claus to enliven the day.”

Reference: The Green and the Gold, Vol II The Story of Greater Green Island, by Kathleen Healey for the Green Island Borough Council, 1990

1994

Opportunity came up to purchase land at Flower Street.  Mr Bob Fairhurst, President of the Dunedin RDA arranged the purchase and guaranteed the mortgage “wearing two hats” as he was also a pony club man. 


1997

18th December

Deed of licence signed between Dunedin RDA and Fernhill Pony Club.


2009

9 September

Open invitation extended to Highcliff Pony Club members to join with Fernhill members under the Fernhill constitution.

21st October

Special General Meeting held and Fernhill Pony Club renamed to Saddleview Pony Club


December 2016

20 years at Dunedin RDA ground, Flower St celebrated with past and present members of Saddleview and Fernhill PC


Feb 2018

Saddleview Pony club exits DRDA grounds owing to change in modus operandi of DRDA and ongoing erosion of access to facilities 


July 2019

Saddleview secures a lease of new grounds at Miller Park - Abbotsford - New Beginnings.