BEF Futurity Championship ..... Addington ...... Whose going?????

[JuliaFSH]

We will be there with 4 mares and foals (God willing!)

- Ciss you missed off Future Poetry from your list, she's also double qualified in dressage and showjumping

Not sure how we're going to handle having foals in different sections that are running at the same time, but hey ho I'm sure it'll all work out OK.

 

[lucydelaroche]

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Ciss shame this wasn't followed through - made a mockery of the entire 2008 Futurity Scheme as far as I am concerned. In one particular section it certainly did become the beauty pageant to which you refer.

In future we will simply put animals forward for the regional assessments which I felt were fair, well organised & un-predjudiced events. I won't bother with the final in future unless there is a radical rethink!