Equifest is a Shambles

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mongy46

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What a shambles Equifest is.
Rule states hard hats must be worn to the approved current BSI standard, with the exception of evening performance where bowler and top hats maybe worn.

In the Style & Performance to Music class a lady competed in a top hat, when they invited everyone back into the ring to choose the winner they wouldn't let her back in the ring forbthis reason, then changed their minds, invited her back in and awarded her first prize?? How can that be right?
Surely she should have been disqualified?
 
mongy46 said:
What a shambles Equifest is.
Rule states hard hats must be worn to the approved current BSI standard, with the exception of evening performance where bowler and top hats maybe worn.

In the Style & Performance to Music class a lady competed in a top hat, when they invited everyone back into the ring to choose the winner they wouldn't let her back in the ring forbthis reason, then changed their minds, invited her back in and awarded her first prize?? How can that be right?
Surely she should have been disqualified?
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Well, thats showing for you :)
 
showpony said:
Still pretty sure sore over illegal bit being allowed at rds last week in working hunter pony class. Wilkies were banned but judge said allowed at last minute
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Actually reading the schedule rules for RDS it doesn't say wilkies were banned and was snaffle only - I saw plenty of ponies in a Pelham & universal bits. I watched end of 13h, 14h and the first section of 15h. Also doesn't state class is run under IPS rules. I find it more interesting that the schedule states all riders must wear back protectors yet I saw very few actually wearing one!
 
mongy46 said:
What a shambles Equifest is.
Rule states hard hats must be worn to the approved current BSI standard, with the exception of evening performance where bowler and top hats maybe worn.

In the Style & Performance to Music class a lady competed in a top hat, when they invited everyone back into the ring to choose the winner they wouldn't let her back in the ring forbthis reason, then changed their minds, invited her back in and awarded her first prize?? How can that be right?
Surely she should have been disqualified?
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There were a LOT of people competing in Pateys with chin straps (not the kite marked ones). I mean FGS just adhere to the rules. It always baffles me at County and Agricultural shows where they have kitemark hat rules, insist that even the ladies' hunter class wear them, and then allow a hound parade full of Pateys - logic?
 
I must be feeling mischievous today but at the risk of offending a lot of people, I dislike showing! My daughter did a bit and declared it was so boring that she'd rather clean tack or poo pick and I'm inclined to agree with her. However, what I really dislike is seeing ponies with their heads jacked into an unnatural outline and absolutely nothing going on behind. We have a sweet pony here who does quite well on the circuit but who is completely up side down but in the ring his sweet little head comes btv and he goes round with a very nice "look at me" attitude and picks up rosettes. I really don't begrudge anyone getting rosettes but his neck and back are very tight and I worry that he's not very comfortable AND so many show horses and ponies are just too fat. I know there are lots of lovely show horses and ponies that are correctly produced but sadly there are also lots that aren't and its pretty obvious when you see them in the ring but often they are the ones heading the line up.
 
Presumably the classes run under the rules set out by the relevant showing governing bodies, which require kite marked hats, while the governing body of the hunt staff (the MFHA) has allowed individual choice regarding headwear
 
oldie48 said:
I must be feeling mischievous today but at the risk of offending a lot of people, I dislike showing! My daughter did a bit and declared it was so boring that she'd rather clean tack or poo pick and I'm inclined to agree with her. However, what I really dislike is seeing ponies with their heads jacked into an unnatural outline and absolutely nothing going on behind. We have a sweet pony here who does quite well on the circuit but who is completely up side down but in the ring his sweet little head comes btv and he goes round with a very nice "look at me" attitude and picks up rosettes. I really don't begrudge anyone getting rosettes but his neck and back are very tight and I worry that he's not very comfortable AND so many show horses and ponies are just too fat. I know there are lots of lovely show horses and ponies that are correctly produced but sadly there are also lots that aren't and its pretty obvious when you see them in the ring but often they are the ones heading the line up.
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ALL THE ABOVE - but mostly the red bit! I haven't seen a show horse that wasn't overweight.
 
Frankly, so much of showing is so last century.

Hats, bp's, safety etc has moved on but the people, the judging, the cruelty, the politics is still very much unchanged.

How will it change if people CONTINUE to support such weird behaviour.
 
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