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Entry fee disparity is the dreaded VAT £68.21 plus 20% VAT £81.85. If you are VAT registered you can reclaim the VAT. Suspect not many competitors will be VAT registered. Start fees are set by BE for BE 80 90 100 between £0 and £17 Novice between £0 and £22. See BE rule book on line...

Very sad but true, perhaps the major reason for this thread.

As one who worked with him from the start at CSHT I can vouch for the time and expense incurred by JO personally as I can for the rest of the committee's personal expenditure of both time and cash. If you want to cause a worried frown on a committee member's brow ask them to calculate how...

To give credit where it is due CSHT and their hard-working committee under JO took on Houston's date to become Scone 2. Ran CIC 2* at short notice and then added a 1*. As well as hosting some of the championships. Spent a fortune building a large water complex and added hard tracks over the...

Sadly the costs involved in running an event are now so high it will take a brave organiser to take on running an event. The financial risks are really quite high and are borne by the organiser and their committee personally. Any loss comes out of their pockets!! The competitors entry fees...

See the Central Scotland website virtual course walk for all courses taken last Friday. Only 2* and OI jumps 5 and 6 are not in the rescheduled course. You even get the courses that never ran.

Just back from walking the ground. Has dried well over the past couple of days with a drying wind and bright sunshine at the moment. Barring torrential rain the event will run on Friday for Novice OI CIC 1* CIC 2*

Have faith, this course builder has ordered up good weather as part of the service to competitors and will be seriously annoyed if it fails to appear.

Been working on the course all day ground is fine and drying all day. Race course is wetter than the parkland where the event is run. Official inspection tomorrow morning updates will be posted approx 12 noon so please keep checking the website.

Writing for a dressage judge or two will let you see the test from the judges view and give you an insight into what a judge is seeing and looking for. Should also get you a few brownie points from the organiser for volunteering to write.. A small word of caution, watching 30 or so tests...

Any fall should be recorded, the circumstances of the fall and any medical treatment given noted on a fall report and collected by the BE Steward. So BE will have a written record of the incident. Not sure how quickly the paperwork gets to BE but assume it will be fairly quickly.

This is the first running of an 80t event at Central Scotland so no previous course photographs. The website http://www.centralscotlandhorsetrials.co.uk has photos of the May event courses. The 80t course will have many jumps similar to the BE90 course, the course itself will be different...

Central Scotland 80t is a completely new course with a new set of jumps being built for the August event.

Course has been aggrivated today, all set for a great weekend.

Could not agree more about riders choice to do all possible events but theproblem is that to avoid conflict we need a longer season which is not practical, the first two af the events of the season Witton and Turnberry both cancelled. We have 7 clashing dates and I think 4 event free weekends...