Can somone explain Day Tickets to me?

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I'm sitting here in the US trying to write an article on the differences between US and UK eventing......

For my sins, I get to read BOTH the BE and the USEA rule books and try to write something entertaining about the differences in the rules.

I have read and re-read the Day Ticket stuff in the BE rules and I still don't get it. Is a Day Ticket a discounted way of paying entry fees or is it a way to get higher in the ballot? Here in the US, all the competitions set their own entry fees, you mail your entry on opening day and they pretty much accept you on a first come first served basis. The trick is to get your entry postmarked on the Tuesday six weeks before the event, then you can be pretty much guaranteed to get in.

So, I'm confused about Day Tickets
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....can someone help me out? Sorry for being the dumb American
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Thanks in advance
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Thanks
Margie
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Edited to add: Sorry, being even more dumb, I meant to enter this in the Competition forum but think I entered it in Latest News. So I copied it over here too - hope that doesn't break any posting rules.....
 
Perpared to be shot down as not sure I have this right, but here goes. Day tickets are purchased by people who are not British Eventing Affiliated, so they can compete in a British Eventing Affiliated competion, without paying for a years membership (not sure I have the terminology correct). Think the idea is to give riders the chance to try without having to affiliate.
 
Yep - you need to buy a day ticket for the rider AND the horse (15 pounds each) if neither is registered. If the event is oversubscribed by the ballot date then day ticket riders on day ticket horses are usually the first to be balloted out, followed by registered riders on day ticket horses. *I think* you can buy a maximum of 4 tickets per season per horse (but don't quote me on that). Up until this year pony riders could only compete Intro and Pre-Novice on day tickets but that has just changed to allow registration as for horses.

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ETS: Sorry, that was in response to the OP's first post.
 
So (sorry again to ask so many questions!) does that mean that pony riders can only compete 4 times a year? Plus, what is the definition of a pony? Over here I guess I would think of a pony as being below about 15.2h (we are still using hands here) but as we don't have any height restrictions for Eventing, we don't really think about it. Any horse/ pony can ride any level. There are some age limits on what level the horse/ rider has to be.

There are other disciplines that have height rules here, but Eventing isn't one of them.

Thanks!
Margie
http:eventing-blog.com
 
Riders can only purchase 4 day tickets per year, horses are unlimited.
Pony is anything under 14.2hh and can only compete up to novice on day ticket. So pony could compete as many times a year as they wanted provided the rider was a member or they changed riders every 4 events for day tickets.
 
Sorry. I'm feeling really stupid here, but I thought I read something about horses need to be rigistered each year - so how does that work with horses being unlimited?

I hope I'm not being annoying and stupid - I feel like I am...

Would anyone be interested in maybe explaining this to me on the phone? I'd be happy to call you at a convenient time at The Eventing Blog's expense.....If so, please e-mail me at info@eventing-blog.com. I would like to reassure you that we are trying to create a useful site for Eventers and this is not an internet scam. So if anyone could spend maybe 1/2 an hour talking to me, I'd appreciate it.

I know this sounds wierd for a Bulletin Board. And, I'm not really sure if it is allowed under H&H BB rules....

Thanks!
Margie

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