BISLEY
HUNT PONY CLUB POLO
The Pony Club Polo is split into nine sections:
- Jorrocks (6 - under 11)
- Handley Cross (9 - under 14)
- Surtees (11 - under 15)
- Hipwood (11 - under 15)
- Loriner (14 - under 17)
- Langford (14 - under 18)
- Ledner (17 - under 21)
- Rendell (15 - under 21)
- Gannon (16 - under 21)
Hipwood, Langford and Gannon are part of the Junior HPA. You must be a member of the Polo Club to play in these
Sections and also have a handicap. Jorrocks and Handley Cross are played on general Pony Club ponies that must attend
non polo rallies. In all other sections polo ponies can be used.
All of the Jorrocks teams play at the Jorrocks
Championships in August which are
held at Hurtwood Park. All other age groups must go to three qualifying tournaments to be able to go to the Senior Championships
at Cowdray Park.
Pony Club is played by over
500 members from 6 to 21 years of age in a season of competitions played over the summer culminating with the Pony Club Polo
Championships held at Cowdray Park. The Bisley Hunt has 2 players at Surtees level. In 2011 Eleisha Gwynn-Jones,
a member at Bisley since she was 4 years old qualified to play in division 1 of the Surtees and came 6th in this years
championship, in a team made up of two members of the HH Pony Club and one member of the Vine & Craven PC. Livi another
member of Bisley PC competed in Division 2 of Surtees.
If
you would like to know more about training with Bisley Polo in the Bisley Hunt Pony Club, please contact Kim
Sherman e mail kim@playpolo.co.uk or phone 07748670587
Training in the summer takes place at 6p.m. every Thursday near Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Polo Contacts.
Manager – Mr. Carlito Gonzalez
Bisley Pony Club web site http://branches.pcuk.org/bisley/polo-13-12-11/
