Horseyhel
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If so, I have posted a thread in New lounge is it ?!! Seems i am not the only one to be disgruntled by the whole thing.
We attended for the 3rd year running today and had a thoroughly enjoyable and informative day.
Yes, it has its faults but it is getting better and better and at the moment is the best we have.
A lot of people put a lot of time and effort in to the series and, as British breeders, we should be supporting them.
I have had my niggles in the past and have put pen to paper to voice my opinion - point is I wrote to them not poured rubbish out on a forum.
Copied my response to your post in NL
How disgusting that you signed up just to slate the Futurity & then do not have the balls to do it under your own name!!! Shame on you, nothing but a coward & as such I wont take what you have written as anything but sour grapes!!
It is impossible to please all the people all the time, but people like you are just flamming well sad. Hardly anything in life is perfect, but when there are people trying to make improvements & they get the likes of you slating them publically behind some made up name, well it pees me off! Did you take your gripes directly to them? Where they then ignored? Perhaps then you had reason for this shoddy response.
. But what I do think is good is the vet evaluation - I would happily pay the entry fee for what seems to always be an unbiased vet evaluation, with helpful comments of small things that can be changed now to make a potentially significant impact to health down the line.
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Absolutely agree with this..... I try to sell my youngstock as foals or yearlings. They are always up for sale after the Futurity, and potential buyers are usually swayed by the vet mark that they get. We've been lucky to get several 9.5's which goes down very well!!
Why are you so down right rude ??
OP has clearly had a bad experience at a professional event and felt the need to talk to others. What is so wrong with that, from the replies she isnt the only one either.
Personally, i enjoy the BEF and have been for a few years now, but can see why people have gripes.
OP, as i previously posted, dont be put off by the BEF or by rude posters on here !
and tried to eat the flower pots (actually he succeeded ). .
I have never presented at one of these things and went to see my first at Arena UK with a view to taking my two foals next year, however I did notice one thing - very few handlers if any, knew how to free school - far to many were getting in front of their horses shoulder and waving the whips at the face and neck, effectivly stoping the horse from moving forward. (And no this wasnt to turn them). Stop "chasing" your horses, spread out in a line and pass the horse from person to person, you'll get a lot more from your horse if it goes in the same driection for more than two strides!
Perhaps the handlers need to practice free schooling with their babies a bit more to get the best from them.