Family Horse and Pony Class

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Me and my pony have qualified for the Family Horse and Pony Class at the Sunshine Tour,
What's involved with this?
The qualifier just involved a individual show and small jump, however I've seen people say they have had to get off and remount, have multiple people ride, a ride judge and/or jump a course in their classes,

Also if anyone's competed at the Sunshine Tour - any tips would be appreciated! This is my first year competing here and it's the biggest show I've attended so far
 

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Have a walk around the showground before you compete - it takes much longer to get from the lorry field to your ring than you might think!
If you are sleeping in the lorry/tent take some breakfast stuff with you. The little shop in the lorry field only had cake when I was last there, and the cafe hadn't opened when I was up and hungry.
Take a rug for your pony. The "temporary" stables aren't very warm as they are on grass.
Enjoy. Good luck!
 

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I qualified my Dales pony for Family Horse and Pony at several championships- FOC, UK Showing.
The class usually involved a jump- a straight bar, from memory. Never had to dismount and remount in the championships, but did in at least one qualifier.
Never done the Sunshine Tour though and I’m going back to 2005-2007 when I was showing.
 

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Have a walk around the showground before you compete - it takes much longer to get from the lorry field to your ring than you might think!
If you are sleeping in the lorry/tent take some breakfast stuff with you. The little shop in the lorry field only had cake when I was last there, and the cafe hadn't opened when I was up and hungry.
Take a rug for your pony. The "temporary" stables aren't very warm as they are on grass.
Enjoy. Good luck!
Thank you for the tips! I'm a bit worried about the stables because I know that mine will just eat the grass all night and look like even more like a hippo the next morning ?
 

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I qualified my Dales pony for Family Horse and Pony at several championships- FOC, UK Showing.
The class usually involved a jump- a straight bar, from memory. Never had to dismount and remount in the championships, but did in at least one qualifier.
Never done the Sunshine Tour though and I’m going back to 2005-2007 when I was showing.
That's a bit of a relief - if I'm honest I don't know if I can mount without a mounting block or gate - saddle usually slips and my legs are too short ?
 

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I qualified my Dales pony for Family Horse and Pony at several championships- FOC, UK Showing.
The class usually involved a jump- a straight bar, from memory. Never had to dismount and remount in the championships, but did in at least one qualifier.
Never done the Sunshine Tour though and I’m going back to 2005-2007 when I was showing.
If you can remember, how big was the jump?
 
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Since when did family pony include a jump!? I've never known there to be one but I haven't seen that class up here is over a decade. But it used to be an adult and a kid would ride the pony to prove it could be ridden by anyone.
 

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Since when did family pony include a jump!? I've never known there to be one but I haven't seen that class up here is over a decade. But it used to be an adult and a kid would ride the pony to prove it could be ridden by anyone.

It always had a single fence the years I did it. And always just one rider. Optional fence though.
 

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Since when did family pony include a jump!? I've never known there to be one but I haven't seen that class up here is over a decade. But it used to be an adult and a kid would ride the pony to prove it could be ridden by anyone.

This is what I thought as well never ever had to jump and I did loads of family pony with a friends grand daughter on her 14.1 pony this was about 10 years ago.

I do remember years ago doing family pony on a 14.2 show pony i was about 12 and they made us all swap horses, I was paired with a woman on a huge palomino she wasn't the smallest either and kind of squashed my pony, I had to ride her huge horse and I remember asking it to canter and it pissed off with me and I fell off and they actually got placed! I didn't but they gave me a rosette because I fell off ?
 

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I did a few of these in the 80s, sometimes called family pony class and sometimes called PC/RC pony class.

There were always two small fences to jump, sometimes a style, or a gate to open and close or a little bridge to walk over, and on one occasion you had to dismount and mount from the opposite side to usual
 
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Down here - family pony, one rider, normally need to show something a bit unusual in the individual show like a dsmount, lead and remount, and a free walk on a long rein to show quietness, and then if you can, a show off touch like some leg yield or direct walk - canter transition to show the pony is capable of working at a higher level with a good rider. Never seen a jump. Won lots with my Connie mare as a kid.

Riding club horse / pony - normally two jumps, one upright, one oxer, about 2’3”, to do in the individual show. Very much a standard showing class with jumping.

Weird how it varies across the country.
 
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