05/31/2026
From Emerson Burr's The Pony Book (get your copy here: https://amzn.to/2TVgKeI):
I hope in the pandemic and taking a step back, we can all appreciate how much we've forgotten as a society how to teach young riders to train young animals. I hope we can embrace this more and see riders who have moved up to horses working with young ponies and continuing to use their knowledge, correct riding, and experience to help train the next generation of ponies and earn this sense of accomplishment.
I know Small Greens are very challenging and some riders grow way too fast and need to be on horses, but I would hope that as many riders as possible could experience working on and being part of making up their own Medium or Large Green, even if that rider has long moved on to horses. Teach your children about the process and not just the end result.
