Martin County 4-H Horse and Pony Club

01/28/2025

Mark your calendars for Martin County Ag Day on March 15, 2025!

This exciting event is going to be a morning filled with agricultural education, community engagement, and fun for the entire family. Whether you're a seasoned farmer, an aspiring gardener, or simply someone interested in learning more about agriculture, this event offers something for everyone! Don't miss this opportunity to celebrate and support the vital role agriculture plays in our community. Save the date and join us at Martin County Ag Day!

01/17/2025

Kindergarten to high school seniors,

Are you interested in joining the Martin County 4-H Horse and Pony Club?

The first 4-H Horse & Pony Club meeting for this program year & informational meeting will be
Sunday, Feb 9th at 5:00pm
Martin County 4-H Fairgrounds & Event Center, Community Learning Center

Don’t have a horse? Come and learn how you can still be involved and participate in this 4-H club!

We’re looking forward to many great things and activities this 4-H year!

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12/19/2024

Hey Martin County H&P supporters!

Your H&P leadership team is excited for 2025 fair and starting planning for 2026- what things would people like to see (no promises but asking for community feedback)?

10/03/2024

I just signed my kids and myself as a volunteer! Have you done it yet? 4H can’t happen without the kids and all the wonderful volunteers! 💚 🍀

4-H Members for the first year or tenth, mini 4-H members in Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade, and all volunteers who want to continue volunteering- jump on 4-H online at

09/22/2024

Unfortunately weather doesn’t look like it will cooperate, cancelling riding today.

09/08/2024

Great riding practice today! Shout out to all the kids for improving and working. I was so busy trying to get the timer to work that I only snapped one photo. Below are the best times by each rider:

Barrels:
Kimber 18.466
Ivy 18.149
Lily 43.167
Addy 76.396
Jack 37.855

Poles:
Kimber 32.207
Ivy 28.912
Lily 60.992
Addy 111.6
Jack 43.1

09/08/2024

Before and after working up the arena for the practice today.

09/06/2024

4-H H&P club open riding meeting for 4H’ers.

When: Sunday Sept 8th and Sunday Sept 15th
Time: 2-5pm

We want the kids to get some practice running barrels and Poles (Sept 8th) and keyhole and speed ‘n action (Sept 15th) before some fall open shows. All the normal 4-H rules apply- helmets, shoes, etc.

07/19/2024

Finally getting around to making this post.

What an awesome two days of showing we had! It was HOT but every single one of those kids and horses hung with us and gave it their all. I am so proud of every single one of these kids.

Thank you to the parents! This year was a hard one, practices were hard to get in between everyone’s schedules, and it either being way too hot for a practice or raining but it was obvious the kids still got their ride time in at home. They have all come a long way.

Thank you, Rhonda Helming, for coming and announcing for us again this year! We don’t know how we would make it without you.

Thank you to Juli Schnell for jumping in to be our arena steward during our performance events and to Madison Giesler for coming over to be our contesting judge.

Thank you, Matt, for all your work on prepping our arena for practices and the show!

Thank you to every single one of our sponsors, from club sponsors to trophy sponsors, without all of you we would not be able to provide awards or keep up with maintenance. We owe you all so much!

To the fellow leaders and volunteers, I can’t say thank you enough! The show ran so smooth, and I didn’t have to worry about whether something was going to get done or not. Everyone jumped in and did their part to keep the show moving.

I could make a list a mile long thanking everyone, but I know I will miss some, so lastly thank you to anyone who had a part in putting these two days together. From making sure we have the materials we need to being a spectator. We need everyone! Be ready to watch these kids next year (and hopefully some new ones) I know they all have big plans!

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07/15/2024

With the expected heat index, we will be pushing our start time back to 7 tonight in hopes of cooler temperatures.

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07/15/2024

Who doesn’t love a good stall decorating contest?!

Our winners were Lily Phillips and Bailey Esch! Congratulations girls!

07/15/2024

Awesome job on day 1 everyone! We’ll see everyone again tomorrow at 6.

Here’s the link to todays photos:

https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/1629209d71734ca7830ccd3014faf8a2?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0OVHMj0IyzmT4S2bwE3Q7C2940UFLbSumQPSCx7DEzZ89D-cW5_EdghVU_aem_mMtxB8clOKRSnZWIMkJT0g

07/13/2024

Tractor man hard at work getting everything ready!

07/13/2024

Tomorrow is day 1 of our horse and pony show and these kids are taking advantage of open arena time. Be sure to come out at 1 tomorrow afternoon and support these hard working kiddos!

07/11/2024

The fair starts today! Be sure to come check out the horses either in the barn or at our show on Sunday and Monday!

07/11/2024

Let us help your business do some advertising!

Horses and Pony members, we will need your help throwing these shirts out at the rodeo. Watch the Remind app for more details!

Attention local businesses! 📣

🐎 The rodeo is coming to town this Saturday! 4-H members want to throw out t-shirts during the rodeo, but in order to do this we are asking for your help!

How can you help? ⬇️

If you own a business, and you would like some advertisement here at the Martin County 4-H Fair, bring some of your businesses t-shirts to the Martin County Extension Office before noon on Saturday! 👕

We would love to support you, while you support us! We are proud of the community we live in, and the businesses that are in this community! 🍀

07/11/2024

All buckled down and tucked in for bed.

07/08/2024

We want to give a huge shoutout and thank you to Andrew Ray for voluntarily coming out and mowing and weeding the horse area again!!

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