Advice on county level shows

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Hi, im wondering about the rules and regulations about county level shows. Do you have to be affiliated? Registered with a certain society? etc?????
Any advice is greatly recieved. Thanks
 
You would usually have to be affiliated except for local classes such as rugularly hunted. What organisation you need to register with would depend on what class to wanted to enter. If you had a Hack you would need to be registered with Show, Hack & Cob Society (or something like that) I think both you and the the horse need to be registered but I could be wrong.

What class do you want to enter?
 
British Show Horse Society is the one for cobs, it used to be the Show, Hack and Cob. You have to have a height certificate to join, but you can get 2 day tickets each year for £15 per show (no height cert needed) which is great if you are not sure if your horse is truely up to it! We used this for our stunning genuine 15hh cob who looked like an emaciated shetland alongside the obese 16hh+ monsters pretending to be cobs
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There are plenty of smaller cobs around the place these days. Most of our cobs are under the 155cm height limit and they seem to do OK. You can only use the "tickets" if the class is not a HOYS or RIHS qualifier. Most of the county shows are qualifiers, so you may find you need to join in order to do the classes.

Why not get your horse out early in the year to some of the clinics or unaffiliated classes wtih panel judges and see what they think.

If you decide to register your horse, he will need to have a height certificate unless you plan to do maxi cobs, in which case there is no certificate required.
 
Currently, the only place to get a height certificate is through the JMB (Joint Measurement Board). However, I understand plans are afoot to offer people options, but I have no more information currently.

http://www.thejmbonline.co.uk/

The cost is around £65. The certificate runs from 1st January to 31st December. If your horse is under 7, then you get an annual certificate. However, even if your horse is 7 or over, your first certificate is always an annual certificate. Your second certificate for a horse 7 or over will be your life height certificate and this must be done by a different vet than the one who did your first certificate.

Regarding clinics, pro show riders do them all over the country - you just need to be plugged into the relevant network to find out where they are. I organise a 3 day residential showing clinic at Keysoe (Bedfordshire) every year, but this is a bit of a one off. Most other clinics are for half a day.
 
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