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Is it just me or are local shows completely fixed?
just got back from a show and a certain woman always wins! i wouldnt mind if the horse she had was nice but it has a pot belly and the show she did was terrible it was cantering sideways! there were at least three horses in the class better than it it isnt really that fair as no one else gets a chance
Please tell me that it isnt just me that thinks this?
 
some i've only been in one that was definitely fixed mine had one both is show classes then in the ridden champion class the pony that one was unplaited, wearing a martingale, wearing a fly fringe, wearing a coloured saddle cloth, lots of boots, was ewe necked, had capped hocks... need I go on!! My sister stood at the side heard the riders mum talking to the judge afterwards and it turns out the girl stabled her pony with the judge's!!!
 
I used to judge at RC and Agricultural level and I would like to re-assure you that non of my classes were fixed! I base my decision on the horses in front of me looking at their conformation, whether or not they are true to type, their way of going and manners
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I havent had a problem at any of the local shows I've been to, bar the pony club ones!
I even took a RS pony in a veteran class and came 2nd, and judges are notorious for not placing RS ponies (we used to take them to shows en mass in the lorry). He was a dear little thing too
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Yeah, but the womans horse *could* have had better confirmation than the others in the class. Remember, there's more to it than just a good show.

I hate showing though, its all opinion and often when you watch a class you think "why did she put that there?". Who knows.
 
The last showing show I did (2006) in the ridden hunter class we had the most stupid judge. He made us all do our individual shows and at the end he pulled 3 of us out and told us we had been elininated for having long girth straps and short girths!!! He told us that these saddles were against the rules of ridden hunters. Me and my friend were fuming! (she later emailed the hunter society about it who said that this shouldn't have happened as these saddles are perfectly acceptable for the classes. It wasn't as if I was trying to qualify for HOYS or anything it was just a local show and in my opinion it is more important to have well fitting saddle than to just chuck on a 'traditional' saddle for the sake of flipping showing.
This was all so he could place two of his friends who were in the class at the top. (The winner had done an awful show, fairly nice horse but was going around like a giraffe and generally being stupid, I centainly would rather have spent a days hunting in my saddle than on that horse!)
Also what I thought made it worse was that he said to us if our shows had been amazing he would have placed us! Well I'm sorry but what a contradiction is that, if he's going to follow a 'rule' there should be no exceptions. Also he didn't eliminate another competitor who was wearing a navy jacket which is centainly not correct dress for a hunter class!
I have not done a showing show since which is a shame as every other class I've done with him before he did really well, but this totally put me off. Oh, and that day he went off to win the working hunter with another judge.
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Stupid man.
 
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