Competing alone- what does everyone do with car keys??

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Just wondering what everyone else does with car keys while they compete if they're alone? I don't really like riding with them in my jacket pocket but can't really think of another option!
 
I saw a post the other day on FB where somebody said they gave theirs to the steward before they did their round.
 
You can leave them with the secretary - although personally I don't. I think they have enough to look after without my keys as well. Some put them behind the sun visor or in the glove compartment. Or elsewhere in the living where they could be easily found by someone who knew where they were. Do tell the secretary you are competing alone and leave them a note with your name, registration number, horse's name, emergency contact number and the location of the keys - just in case! You are quite right not to carry them in your pocket - that could cause a nasty injury.
 
I have a lockable tack box on my trailer. If I feel the need to lock up they go in there, otherwise I take them out of the ignition & put them out of sight.
 
I have a flip belt which is great, if Im competing i take the main car key off the keyring so theres less bulk, (hide the house/yard keys in the car), I put it in the zip up bit of the belt for extra security. x
 
I put them under some hay at the front of the trailer (i.e. where my horse drops while eating). Easy to get to and describe to someone, not such an obvious place to look.
 
Depends what kind of show I'm at. Normally just shove them under something in the groom area :o (3.5t)
If I'm feeling a bit security conscious then I lock everything into the groom area and put the key to THAT in my breeches pocket. It's a small key.
 
Thank you everyone! Clearly not being creative enough 😂 Liking the hay idea and hadn't though of the belts!
 
We have a surf safe which you can put keys/small phone into has a combination lock and then you can lock it under the car by the tow bar :) search in Google
 
I balance mine on a ledge over the back wheel of my lorry, out of sight but easy to find should they be needed. This has happened, as I fell off and someone loaded my horse for me and waited for my dad while I sipped hot tea in the warm. :D
 
When I had a trailer+car, I would usually hide they keys somewhere in the trailer, or lock them in the tack locker (Bateson) and put they key for that in my jacket pocket. Now I have a 3.5t, so only one key on the chain so just pop that in my pocket.
 
Do none of you worry about your vehicle being stolen? Especially now you've all posted on an open forum saying how common it is for keys to be left somewhere about the vehicle.
 
Lol my lorry gearbox is a little idiosyncratic, would-be thieves would be heard crunching the gears throughout the lorry park :D

If I was still eventing, where you can be away from the lorry park for an hour at a time then perhaps I'd feel differently. I can usually see my box at all times these days.
 
There's more of a risk for things being stolen from the car rather than the car itself being stolen I'd have thought. By the time someone has closed up trailer ramps, rummaged around for keys, got in the car and driven off I would have thought other people around would have noticed, especially at riding club type events where everybody knows everybody else. Eventing where people don't know each other so well is a bit different.

One of the benefits of driving a Defender with technology from the early 90s is that the key and the remote locking fob are separate, so I take the fob off, leave the keys in the glove box, lock the car with the fob and take that with me. It fits nicely in my jodhpurs pocket and there are no sharp edges to hurt me if I fall off.
 
annagain said:
There's more of a risk for things being stolen from the car rather than the car itself being stolen I'd have thought. By the time someone has closed up trailer ramps, rummaged around for keys, got in the car and driven off I would have thought other people around would have noticed, especially at riding club type events where everybody knows everybody else. Eventing where people don't know each other so well is a bit different.

One of the benefits of driving a Defender with technology from the early 90s is that the key and the remote locking fob are separate, so I take the fob off, leave the keys in the glove box, lock the car with the fob and take that with me. It fits nicely in my jodhpurs pocket and there are no sharp edges to hurt me if I fall off.
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At last. There is a benefit to driving a defender :p
 
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