About time Olympia had some new rules...

i have to disagree with the OP as it is the riders choice to do that and the atmosphere rises higher as they raises their hats in the lap of honour, it is a joy to watch.
As for children being impressionable, well thats what i thought parents were there for to impose rules like my mum did
 
yes and it certainly riles me as ive seen first hand that a hat can save your life and there not there for fashion. Will say again they are professionals so should be setting appropriate standards. And not all showjumpers will know there horses inside out like we would as they dont care for them on a daily basis they hire people to do it. Ben won the puissance the other night and the commentator said that he had only just bought the horse for that particular class so obviously wont know it that well and before you jump on me i worked for one of these particular showjumpers that are competing at olympia and walked out after 4 months as couldnt stand there pompous attitudes towards people and there horses
 
ew1801 said:
yes and it certainly riles me as ive seen first hand that a hat can save your life and there not there for fashion. Will say again they are professionals so should be setting appropriate standards. And not all showjumpers will know there horses inside out like we would as they dont care for them on a daily basis they hire people to do it. Ben won the puissance the other night and the commentator said that he had only just bought the horse for that particular class so obviously wont know it that well and before you jump on me i worked for one of these particular showjumpers that are competing at olympia and walked out after 4 months as couldnt stand there pompous attitudes towards people and there horses
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I just bet that you got on their tits too!!
 
I wasn't jumping on you but seriously! I'm not being funny but are you just having a pop at them because of the experience that you had with one of them as you sound quite bitter...
 
pastie2 said:
I just bet that you got on their tits too!!
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I was wondering when the childish comments would come as you dont like what people with different opinions have got to say.
We will see what you have to say when someone close to you gets seriously hurt whilst out riding and their hat saves there lifes (or not)
 
Not bitter just think galloping round an arena full of jeering people on highly strung horses without a hat is stupid and i would say the same to anyone riding without a hat
 
ew1801 said:
I was wondering when the childish comments would come as you dont like what people with different opinions have got to say.
We will see what you have to say when someone close to you gets seriously hurt whilst out riding and their hat saves there lifes (or not)
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Oh for goodness sake!! Of course we all ride out with a hat. We are talking about a lap of victory, not anything more or less. Do please keep things in perspective!
 
ew1801 said:
until they come off in one of these celebrations and end up splitting there heads in two due to there ignorance of their own safety.
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And then that'll be the perfect example to every child or parent alive who has no sense of danger or an opinion of their own to wear a hat. Because of course, just because you or I have seen an accident where someone has not been wearing a hat means you're perfectly right and should insist on a new law whereby you cannot decide a damn thing for yourself and therefore must be nannied.
 
o for gods. if you think riding without a hat deserves praise regardless how high the fence they have jumped or what class they have won then you are seriously ignorant. I would never take my hat off when on a horse not even for a second as they are unpredictable animals and i would like to go home to my daughter with my head in one piece
 
if they want to do it at home then fine but when they are on tv infront of thousands of people they should be setting an example
 
I haven't read all the threads but I do remember being at a local show a few years ago - I raced straight out of the hunter class wearing my bowler, straight into a showjumping class. My bowler blew off half way round and I was disqualified from the jumping class! :o

Maybe small local shows have tighter rules!!
 
Horses for courses, and most on here seem to be saying that nobody we know has actually been influenced to ride without a hat as a consequence of watching somebody take his/hers off for a few seconds because they've won some very high level competition.

I'm sure the majority of kids who go hunting on their ponies don't go begging their mums for a beagler when they see the hunt staff wearing them (and god forbid taking them off in greeting) either.

Did amuse me that the local equine college thought it was fine (and for all I know may have insisted) that the local young up and coming superstar (and a student at the college) removed his hat when he met the queen, having given a demonstration. The photo of him mounted but hat in his hands was subsequently used for all publicity possible. :rolleyes:

Same college who insisted that any visiting celebrity, and all staff and students wear hats when they are around horses, on them or not. It all did seem a bit hypocritical to me. :rolleyes:

(then again maybe they were trying to make dear old Liz feel at home, what with her riding in a headscarf and that :D)
 
ew1801 said:
o for gods. if you think riding without a hat deserves praise regardless how high the fence they have jumped or what class they have won then you are seriously ignorant. I would never take my hat off when on a horse not even for a second as they are unpredictable animals and i would like to go home to my daughter with my head in one piece
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I bet your a teacher or work in local goverment :D
 
I dont see the lap of honour a problem without a hat, its the warming up cantering and jumping without the hat that bothers me, if they were at a smaller show or werent famous it wouldnt be allowd. I was sat watching it with my daughter and even she commented on them warming up with no hat on!!!!! Young children do get influenced, my daughter is 6 and i make her wear a hat, and BP for jumping and hacking, and shes said to me on a few occasions so so not wearing a hat can i take mine off?? Errr NO. Or at shows when the older kids wont wear a BP shes asks the same thing. I do hammer it into her its for safety. Since i saw the news of the little girl getting trod on at home and she died ive got even more strict on her wearing a BP but there is a certain influnece of what people she looks up to doing as ive had a fight with her wearing a BP all the time, but cos of her age ATM i can make her
 
Did anybody else notice that at olmypia in the warm up ring there were a couple of people warming up with no hats on??

I have to say that at my local shows i do, you get majorly told off if you get on without a hat on so why should the rules be different?

Fair enough it's tradition, but it is giving younger riders a bad message..
 
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