BSJA....Waste of Time? (Rant)

I joined years ago and had to pay an extra £10 within the subs for my horse to be entered in the British Horse Database. Had to supply her breeding details and send her Vaccination card in to get a sticker and reference number applied.

The following year, the £10 wasn't dropped from the subs, and when I queried the fact that it was supposed to be a one-off payment I just got a glum 'don't know, it's tough' sort of answer.

The BHD seemed to die a death although may now have been resurrected as National Equine Database (NED) which seems to be a hot potato at the moment.

So when I recently PAID to get a nice printout of my horses' winnings, I was a bit perturbed to find 'breeding unknown', plus I didn't get the printout on BSJA headed paper, all posh like for my £10-13 [whatever it was], I was supposed to print it out myself.

Things like that tend to give a person a dim view of an organisation.
 
The BSJA have NEVER replied to any emails I have sent them. They are very slow at updating records and now they are trying to say I owe them £42 from last Novemeber that I knew nothing about until I re-registered this year
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. Now I have to pay my bank for a duplicate cheque to prove to them I paid it a year ago . . . What a bloody cheek BSJA !!
 
I've looked at the record again & something isn't quite right
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Discovery Double Clear jumped, came 6th, but was out of the money, money was only down to 5th place. On record have been awarded £12 Actual & £6 notional..... but we didn't win anything
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Does anyone know what's happening??
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Can I join in this BSJA rant please.........

I got a fine today for my horse jumping in a class that she wasn't eligible to jump in but the class they got her down as jumping wasn't the class she actually jumped in, the class she actually jumped in she was eligible for! Grrrrrrrr!!

Feel much better now thanks!!
 
The difference with BE is that I believe the show secretaries are able to upload the results directly hence them appearing on a sat or sunday night of the event itself, if not there is a very dedicated member or two of staff who do it and well done them for doing so.

BD yes will charge non members to view records BUT if you are a member you can see ANY horse or rider's records for free not just your own.

BSJA yes do have to wait for show centres to send them in but they do not seem to have the software to make their life easier. If all show secretaries entered the results information into a standard spreadsheet/database and emailed it to the BSJA within a week this should be able to be directly uploaded by cut copying and pasting or a simple click of a button to a well written results database. The database could flag up incorrect horse/rider numbers and post the rest of the results immediately. BD now have a live stream between the office computers and the server so the results continually update and tehre is no reason why BSJA can't/don't have the same.
All my BSJA records are wrong. Dan's have several DC's missing and Fleur's is £4 short notional.

Premy's (my old 12h2s) is hysterical, he is missing £1k+ in winnings from his time in Jersey but considering the winnings he has it's not an issue as he hasn't jumped in the incorrect classes at any point.

I have not rejoined the English BSJA (still a Jersey BSJA member) this year for many reasons but the admin side of club really does make me worry at times.
 
Most of the judges I know are now using all the same spreadsheet on their laptops. It's an excel spreadsheet and I think for £12 a year your log in somewhere and it updates all the horse and rider membership numbers. This isn't something developed by BSJA. The judge then types in the horse/rider and the spreadsheet brings back the number and owner details etc.

The judge puts in how many faults each horse gets/time in the JO. The spreadsheet works out how many prizes to give, the time allowed,the postition of each horse in the class, prints out a list of DCs etc. It really is very good.

The format is exactly the same as the paper sheets that they have to fill in. So the software is already there, the judges are already using it, it just needs the BSJA to be able to upload the information in a CSV/excel file to their database.

I would rather that the BSJA spent our money on developing this than giving out free stable plaques and folders for the rule book.
 
We went to a show last week where the bsja had sent a list of qualified horses for the amatuer second rounds only to find we were not on the list. Apparently the show was told if people were not on the list they could not jump, luckily i took my qualifying letter so was allowed to jump.
We have had winnings allocated to the wrong horse, letters saying we owe registration money from last year.
THE BSJA ARE A JOKE
 
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