BE Prizes In Kind... best, and funniest/worst you've received?

I won a PN section and got £40 :), a lovely sash :), and also the brightest, pinkest fleece rug for my chestnut ;)!!!! It was also a rather large 6'9......I mean.....who would buy a rug that colour for a big horse???!!!! I re homed it PDQ!

I've also won the usual mugs, saddle soap, 10% voucher for a new saddle from a saddler with an interesting reputation ;), a rock salt.......I could go on ;)!!!

It's all about the taking part though......isn't it???
 
Not Eventing but at the North Norfolk Point to Point at Fakenham near Houghton Hall, I was lucky enough to ride 2 winners only to find out the Jockeys prize was a Box of Newmarket sausages, so for someone who struggles with there weight 160 sausages was quite amusing, 158 of them are still in the deep freeze!!!!
 
My friend once won a single bed at a unaffiliated sj competition as it was sponsored by a local bedding firm, and they made him jump the bed for a pr photo!
 
Santa_Claus said:
just searched several online shops for one but can't find it!

As said darkish green woven (in a totally random squiggly line way) plastic/rubber in a normal brush 'oval' shape/size. abotu half a cm thick with a yellow fabric strap for your hand!
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http://www.ingatestonesaddlery.co.u...shes-And-Accessories/Supergroomer-104265.Aspx

I found it! Tis my fave bit of my grooming kit.

Ive won a tub of event grease before for 2nd place BE90, photo vouchers fo something, and sponges and polos... lol :)
 
I won a rug and a £40 Horseware voucher (which bought a set of travel boots and a waterproof liner for a fly sheet with only a little 'real money' added to it!!!) at Eland Lodge Unaff ODE a few years ago with Hen.
It's a lovely Navy Amigo Jersey Cooler too, although it has WINNER embroidered on it, which makes me feel a bit embarassed about the horses wearing it anywhere but at home :D Some little fecking mice chewed a hole in it last year, I hope they choked :mad:
 
These ones that spring to mind, probably because they were consecutive events several years ago. Best was when we took a 5 yo to her first intro and to our suprise she won - prize was a down filled toggi jacket which sold at over £100 (my son, the jockey, even let me have it :D).

Next event we were delighted when she came 2nd but the prizes were a letdown - a vile grey green saddlecloth which didn’t fit any saddle and a bottle of foal colostrum replacement with a use by date of the following month, as this was in late September there was little chance of finding a use for it!

It's definitely better in Nov and above where at least you get money though it's hard to even cover the entries.
 
ecrozier said:
I waited once as new was going to be top 5 at ascot under wychwood, and could see lots of bags of prizes :) I ended up 5th and won.... A loaf of bread!
It was sweet really as it was an 80t so don't think they are required to give prizes at all and came with a hovis cake tin, but as a little confusing to open the prize bag and be confronted with a loaf of hovis!
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I got a 'Hovis' Goodie bag too !!
 
lex2501 said:
The best I have had was from winning at Mattingley a few years ago. I got a cut glass rose bowl which is lovely and when prizes are like that, I prefer them to the cash! It takes pride of place on my mantelpiece - the toothpaste won't be joining it!
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I agree, the best we received last year was a pair of cut glass goblets for 3rd in BE100 at Little Mattingley. I think the worst was a huge saddle cloth which we could use as a rug on our 14.1. The consolation is that it fits the youngster!

I agree with an earlier post, the unaffiliated events appear to be far more generous. I believe if prizes are being given it should at least be of equivalent value to the entry fee!
 
The worst one I ever had was a black hairnet for 3rd in a PC ODE (I'm blonde) and also had I think at the same ODE year later a packet of plaiting bands in weird orange colour (at the time had a grey??)
Both for 3rd place. hmmmm you'd think for the £1.50 they must have cost they could have got a small selection so you could match to the winner....

Don't think I've ever won anything really good....... got a really nice rug once for winning at a HT but it was 6ft 6 and my boy at the time was 17.3 so I gave it to the girl who came second as I just didn't see the point in keeping it.
Oh well one day I'll get something nice.......
 
Not BE, but Endurances in Chile.

1st would get a little metal trophy on a stand engraved with '1st Safari, Haras El Ritoque, November 2001', and a little medal with the Endurance assoc. pic on the front and engraved on the back '1st Safari Nov 2001'.
2 & 3 rd got medal and a frilly, sometimes everyone else who passed the vet would get a medal just saying 'Ritoque Nov 2001'.

I think they were a lovely idea and 10 years later I still have all of mine and treasure them.

Actual prizes I've won include a smart headcollar, the best lunging rein I've ever used and 10 years :eek: later still use, and a large tray of avocadoes :cool:
 
I was at an unaff SJ competition a couple of years ago (it was a local final that my sister had qualified her pony for) and they were offering a thorowgood saddle and IIRC, a free fitting for first place! I'm not a thorowgood fan but what a generous prize all the same!!

J&C
 
My best were the two cut glass rose bowls I won two mattingley events on the trot during an exceedingly rare intro purple patch!! Also won a photo at one of them. At the same time I also won a lovely basket of deli goodies for 2nd at broadway and some cash for good unaff placings at tweseldown.

At goring we won a PN section and I watched them handing out huge bags of carrots from 10th place and could clearly see there were only 9 bags :-(. Got some funny leg wrap thing (only for one leg) and later the secretary caught up with me and gave me a box of chocs from the fence judge thank you table (so sorry to any fence judge that didn't get a thank you that year)!

Horsie and my friend also won smiths lawn PN - prize was a saddle cloth but at least friend won the local rider cup.

On balance unless you get a lovely keepsake like Mattingley (and unlike me manage to keep them away from clumsy husband who broke one) I definitely prefer the cheques!!
 
H'mm, now I'm nervous... O/h is a master plasterer & is sponsoring a class at Tetworth (small, unaff) hunter trial tomo, i.e. paying for the rosettes in exchange for his firm's name in the schedule. I've been out & bought some pink grooming items for 1st, 2nd & 3rd...now I'm a bit worried in case someone posts on here tomo to say that they won a HT & got a rubbish pink brush as a prize...!!
 
the best stash of prizes i've ever won was at the local Sunshine Tour Championships when my old boy stood champion veteran last year. We won a Mountain Horse Corrib jacket embroidered with Local Rider (in my size and worth about £45), a £40 voucher for an online saddlery, water bucket, lead rope, some sweeties for the pony and I'm sure there were a few other bits too. Of course the best bit was the sash - been trying 10yrs to win a sash and finally got there! And of course the entry fee was only about £15. I guess the one thing you could never be accused of at BE is pot-hunting - there's no pot to hunt!
 
Never been BE, but a very local venue (as in hackable distance) we used to take Bronson to quite often used to do a first prize of £20-25 for their HTs/ODEs/showcrosses, and for the first season they ran them I he won pretty much every class I entered him in, so around £100 in one year. The owner once joked that they would have to ban him from the venue :p They changed it from optimum time to fastest time after that though :(

We also once won a sash and trophy at a charity show for coming 2nd in a five-bar competition (best junior and best pony) - never won a sash before or since, and I imagine it can't be too expensive a prize but definately looked 'special' :)
 
Not BE, just local unaff stuff, one league hands out vouchers for free classes at subsequent comps for BTO prizes. Doesn't cost them anything except another 5 mins of the judges' time, but is much appreciated by the competitors, all the same, because is of real use to us.

Most useful prize I ever got wasn't at a comp, but for getting my comments picked for a horsey mag: bottle of fly spray, big bottle of pony whitener (which I gave to a friend with a pale grey show arab), and an odd curved very bristly mud brush, that is still no. 2 on the pony's preferred-grooming-utensils list (no. 1 remains the purple Roma mane-and-tail brush). Not bad for a few emails! :D

I always wonder about prizes like rugs, etc. Unless you have a few sizes to choose from, surely it's a bit of a roulette as to whether or not the person has any use for them? Same with supplements and feed, surely! :confused:
 
SpottedCat said:
Actually, one of the most useful things I ever won was a really cheap plastic grooming thing. Horse hates being groomed, I've never seen anything like this before or since, it is flat, with a strap on the back for my hand, and is plastic strands all sort of woven into each other (like the metal scratch pan cleaners if that makes sense). I use it every day because its the only thing horse tolerates to get the mud off!
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Santa_Claus said:
I have one of those, don't know where I got it from (i didn't win it though I know that much!) and its brilliant :D
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broke_but_happy said:
Spotted cat and Santa Claus - link please!
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The shop at Stockland Lovell used to sell them, no idea if they still do
 
Not BE, but we came 2nd at the Atherstone Novice Teamchase, we got £80, a poultice each, a mug each, horse treats, vouchers for the tack shop, a trophy for 'Best Atherstone Team' too, and a photograph each. Was a good day at the office!

PC ODE South Staffs @ Catton - 1st - won a John Partridge quilted jacket, didnt like it, so I got a big size so I could give it to my Grandma for Xmas, except I forgot about it, now I quite like it and it's massive. Serves me right I spose! ;)

PC Intermediate Area Dressage - 1st - won a coat/jacket, which I'm still waiting on... hope it comes. :o

PC mini ODE - 2nd on my 4 y/o, won a medal! :D Had the small grooming kit bits for placings aswel, which although useful are not that impressive.
 
I came 2nd at Turnberry last year in the BE90 open, and won a very long dressage whip.

I am not complaining about Turnberry though as it is a well run event but to me, winning the whip was funny as my horse is whip shy!!
 
BE wise, I've had an odd assortment of prizes - a salt lick for coming 2nd (and I'd travelled 6 hours to the event and stabled for two nights!), a £10 voucher for a tack shop for a 3rd placing - could only be spent at their stand at the event and it was closed by the time they gave out prizes, a bag of feed for another 3rd place (that was actually a good one), a Likit for an 8th place...

Burgie are the best I've experienced for prizes - got a 3rd place one year and got £60 prize money, and another year I was 2nd and got £75 D&H feed vouchers.

Unaff I've had the usual sets of exercise bandages, saddle cloths, etc, plus for winning the RC area horse trials a polo shirt that was XXXL (I'm a size 8) and was too big even for my husband!

Having always BEd and never done BS or BD, I'm none the wiser to decent prizes. I just compete because I enjoy it.
 
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