Dressage (a French term meaning "training") is one of the three Olympic equestrian disciplines. It is a program of creating suppleness, balancing and obedience work that prepares a horse for future pleasure-riding or competition.

It is the basic schooling of every riding horse. Under the guise of "flat work", it is what eventer/jumper trainers do with their horses when they are not schooling over fences. Competition is open to virtually every kind and size of horse and any age of rider.

In dressage training, the natural movements a horse can make on his own, free in the pasture, are repeated as exercises. These range from simple patterns and circles at the walk, trot and canter to movements in extreme collection, such as the piaffe.

In competition, horses perform tests reflect the movements used in schooling and so, assess the horse's correct progress towards the goals of suppleness, balance and obedience.

The Prince Philip Mounted Games provides the Pony Club with a competition requiring courage, determination and all-round riding ability on the part of the rider, and careful and systematic training of the pony.

The objective is to encourage a higher standard of riding throughout Pony Club and to stimulate among the future generation a greater interest in riding as a sport and recreation.

The Mounted Games were first introduced into the PCAWA program in 1965, and the event was held at the Perth Royal Show. The Games were run under the Rules provided by The Pony Club, UK. Club Teams of five riders from each of the 8 Zones competed in a Semi Final, with the finalists competing for the Championship.

In 1974 His Royal Highness Prince Philip visited Western Australia and gave his permission for the PCAWA to use his name for the Western Australian Competition.   During 1985 permission was sought to use the title "Prince Philip Mounted Games" for the Pony Club games competitions conducted in Australia. This permission was granted in 1986.

At the same time, HRH also donated a perpetual trophy for Junior Mounted Games National competition. The National Junior Prince Philip Games is now an annual event.

Eventing is a sport for the all-round horse and rider in which the combination completes three phases:

The PCAWA conducts the State Eventing Championships annually. Zones or Clubs are invited to host the event for a two year period. At the State Eventing Championships Grade ‘A’Plus, Grade ‘A’and Grade ‘B’will be run in order of Dressage, Cross Country and Jumping. The order of cross country and jumping for Grade C is at the organiser's discretion. The best three scores will be counted to make the team total.

Show Jumping is a comparatively recent development in the 3000 year history of men riding horses. Hunting is generally thought to be the first form of competition jumping. Usually the hunters were raced over the flat, but as jumping became more accepted, so the hunters were tested over a few obstacles before the actual race began.

In the 1880's competitions for show jumping horses were organised as far afield as Dublin, Paris and Russia and in the following decade the sport became popular in Britain. Within a few years 'leaping' classes were introduced to agricultural shows.

The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris included three jumping competitions, High Jump, Long Jump and Prize Jumping. The first International Horse Show was held in London in 1907 and five years later equestrian events became part of the Olympic Games, though only Army officers were permitted to ride. The Federation Equestre International (FEI) was formed in 1921 from which all show jumping rules are adapted.

Based on the Olympic Modern Pentrathlon, which consists of five phases: riding, running, shooting, fencing and swimming. The Pony Club competition excludes fencing because of the complexity and time involved leaving: