BSJA 4 & 5yr old

[HLB]

Do the BSJA or sponsors run any 4 & 5yo r old classes?? or is it just the 6 & 7yr old??

also do they do a style and proformance class or anything similar?

i have no idea as i have always jumped older horses but have a couple babies!

BSJA not very helpful as they say look at the website - but i cant find anything

any help would be great, chars

 

[Sarah_Jane]

They def do 4 year old classes. 1 meter height I believe double clears qualify but can't remeber what for! Like BE you need breeding papers.

 

[HLB]

thats no probs as both are papered! i just cannot find anything about them!

I may just have to plug them a bit more over the phone now you have said that they DO do them.

Charrs me dare

 

[Vicki_Krystal]

Scope has classes for 4 and 5 year olds.
Dont know how big 4yr olds is - i would guess 1.05.

The 5yr old is 1.20

 

[hedgehog1]

the 4 year olds at scope is 1 metre, judged on style and performance etc. If your 4 year old can handle that your doing well as the warm ups are SO busy - there were 90 odd in it last year and spooky rings etc. mine freaked out in the inside in the final but its really good experience.
Not many shows run their own 4 year old classes any more, pyecombe does in the august show, think thats 1m too, and the young horse shows like addington have them with british bred/foriegn sections. their 4 year old is a bit bigger.
there are loads of 5 year old classes though, alot of shows run their own 'series' and have their own finals - like bicton, their 5 year old i think is 1.10 or 1.05 and dorset whose 5 year old is 1.05. They get the horses in the main rings of these shows wihtout you having to push them too much.

 

[Vicki_Krystal]

The scope 5yr old is big - 1.20 in the final, which when you combine how spooky the arena is - is a tough ask of a 5yr old.

 

[cazzy]

I'm based at Pyecombe.

The BSJA used to run their own 4 & 5 year old style and performance classes but they stopped about 2 years ago.

Now most centres run their own classes/series.
Under BSJA rules 4 year old classes have to be run under Table A - two rounds not against the clock and all double clears get =1st and share the money. They do it this way as they reckon 4 year olds shouldn't jump off - but they do in B.Novice and Discovery!!!!
We now run our 4 year old championship at our august show as an unaffiliated class at 1m as when we asked the competitors they all said they would like to have a champion. Most 4 years by this time in the season have at least jumped discovery if not newcomers.
We normally have a 5 year old championship also.

Scope and the young horse show at Addington in August also run 4 & 5 year old classes. Think Wales and Bicton do too.