BS Championships/Qualifiers/Leagues

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Hello everyone,
I have been jumping BS for just under 2 years now and I am jumping at fox. However in these 2 years I have been going to regular day shows and never payed attention to any championships or leagues or away shows. I have looked on the BS website and Calendar and everywhere I can think of but I just do not understand it!

What are the main championships? I understand there is blue chip and then the summer championships but it seems there are loads more? How do you qualify for these championships? What are the silver and bronze leagues? Sorry I am clueless. I understand you need to be top 8 at a blue chip qualifier in order to jump there and then jump 4 double clears for the summer championships? What are the main shows in the BS calendar/what should I be aiming for? And what are winter classic shows? I am completely lost

Thanks for your help.

 

[LEC]

Hello everyone,
I have been jumping BS for just under 2 years now and I am jumping at fox. However in these 2 years I have been going to regular day shows and never payed attention to any championships or leagues or away shows. I have looked on the BS website and Calendar and everywhere I can think of but I just do not understand it!

What are the main championships? I understand there is blue chip and then the summer championships but it seems there are loads more? How do you qualify for these championships? What are the silver and bronze leagues? Sorry I am clueless. I understand you need to be top 8 at a blue chip qualifier in order to jump there and then jump 4 double clears for the summer championships? What are the main shows in the BS calendar/what should I be aiming for? And what are winter classic shows? I am completely lost

Thanks for your help.

The rulebook has everything in it. Tbh there are so many it would take me ages to reply as dependent on points horse has, heights you are jumping at, rider rankings, age etc

It's not that hard to decipher.... I am an eventer and have managed to work it out thanks to the rulebook which is available online.

 

[Spiderpig2009]

Championships depend on horse winnings. Blue chip is the winter champs, so it goes in line with the standard BN, disc, newcomer, fox etc, although there are a couple of opens mixed in if you want to jump a more experienced horse in the lower classes. For the novice classes, you just get your double clears in the regular fox etc then go to a regional and the top 2 or 3 depending on entries go to the final. There are national amateur classes as well, which are opens but at heights so you just get wins/placings to qualify. From memory when I won a Nat am class the bsja used to write to me to invite to the regional. It’s about 15 years ago now so probably changed.

Blue chips are direct qualifiers run in the winter- they usually qualify the first 6 or so then you go to blue chip in April

It’s great fun - I miss it. Enjoy

 

[Spiderpig2009]

The newcomer and Fox regionals are massive- over 3 rounds and go up to 1.45 for newcomers even higher for Fox. The first three places at the end of the show then go to hoys for the finals. The other classes used to go to scope festival but goodness knows where they are now. Novice classes blue chips, I did the blue chip star for the 1.10’s and these were always first round started at 1.15/1.20. I only jumped the regionals in discoveries until my horse jumped out of disco, because I wasn’t competent at 1.40’s on a newcomer horse. Which is what you need to do the regionals at that level. The hoys final is usually lower than regionals - top class novice horses are identified at these shows.

Plenty of opens and blue chips to aim for if you want to stick to 1.20’s for a while and get your eye going. Summer shows can have open water too at Fox so make sure you practice those.

The classics were open to 1.20 silver league horses from memory. When you jump you get points from placing in classes which goes into a league table. I think everything below 1.10 is bronze, so you would be in silver. The ones at the top of the league at the end of a period get invited to compete for a final - but you have to jumping your horse a lot to stay at the top of that! I think there are some direct league qualifier shows - or there used to be. Wales and west used to run them from memory - depending on where you live you should be able to find them