as sweet as hunni
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What do you exactly do in showing classes? I'm doing young handler and best riding club pony, I've only ever done dressage 
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as sweet as hunni
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What do you do In classes?
Lilyhead
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Assume Young Handler is an in hand class? You will need to lead her around with the group at walk, then by turn you'll trot to the back. Then you'll be lined up, pulled out one by one where you'll need to stand your pony up square, then walk away and trot back and past the judge to the back of the line up, then pop back in your space! Young handler is about showing what you can do correctly, practice leading and trotting, and presenting your ponio to the judge!
Riding club pony usually involves you walk, trot and cantering as a group, then lining up to do your individual piece (nice simple show - walk away, trot back, trot a figure of eight, then canter a figure of eight with an extension down the long side (if you're feeling brave!) then back to trot and halt! They will probably want you to jump a small jump as well.
Hope this helps
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Riding club pony usually involves you walk, trot and cantering as a group, then lining up to do your individual piece (nice simple show - walk away, trot back, trot a figure of eight, then canter a figure of eight with an extension down the long side (if you're feeling brave!) then back to trot and halt! They will probably want you to jump a small jump as well.
Hope this helps
good luck
Tiffany
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Assume Young Handler is an in hand class? You will need to lead her around with the group at walk, then by turn you'll trot to the back. Then you'll be lined up, pulled out one by one where you'll need to stand your pony up square, then walk away and trot back and past the judge to the back of the line up, then pop back in your space! Young handler is about showing what you can do correctly, practice leading and trotting, and presenting your ponio to the judge!
Riding club pony usually involves you walk, trot and cantering as a group, then lining up to do your individual piece (nice simple show - walk away, trot back, trot a figure of eight, then canter a figure of eight with an extension down the long side (if you're feeling brave!) then back to trot and halt! They will probably want you to jump a small jump as well.
Hope this helps
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Morgan123
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Wow these are coming up a lot lately! Well for handler you're in hand and I'm guessing riding club pony will be mounted so for starters let's go with in-hand.
dress nice and smartly, in what you wear to ride will be fine. Your pony can have a ncie in-hand bridle for this, and ideally with a butterfly clip and proper (leather) lead rein not a rope. If you don't have one, just reins over head is OK and your normal bridle with a nice browband if you have one.
You'll be asked to all walk round together on the outside of the ring. There are two people in the middle, one will have a clipboard (steward), the other is the judge. Make sure that when the judge looks at you, your pony is behaving like a little angel. They'll watch you walk around the edge for what will seem like an eternity (don't get too close to the people in front, and avoid any youngsters acting up and spinning of whihc there might be a few). Eventually they will ask you to halt on one side of the arena (again keen a decent distance between nearby horses), and then you'll trot down the long side one by one. Make sure you really get your horse stepping out next to you, so let its head go and aim to be running by its shoulder. Practice at home to get it trotting on command so you don't have to drag it!!! not a good look ;-)
They'll then have you walk around for another five hundred years, and pull you into a line. Sometimes they do this by who they like the best but sometimes by something else so don't panic at this stage. Then, each horse is 'pulled out' of line individually, i.e. you lead them by the judge, they walk around them. As this is a handler class, you'll be being assessed on how you are holding them - i.e. you should be standing back (not inhibitng judge's view), holding out head a little, encouraging them to doing a nice showing stand-up (square or one leg back, seems ot be), and keeping them controlled! They may well ask you to pick up each of thier feet in turn and stuff, becuase it's a handler class.
Next you will be asked ot walk the horse awya from the judge and back again - then trot away and abck again. This is just like for the vet, i.e. walk beside the shoulder, turn the horse in the direction AWAY from you not towards you, don't inhibit judge's view by walking infront of your horse, etc. Try and get them to stride out.
Then another hundred years as you wait for everyone else to do the same, then walk around the arena a bit more and they pull you in and give you a ncie shiny cup and a red rosette (hopefully!).
Ridden showing is similar, but obviously you're on top ;-). So start off with everyone going round the edge all together, at walk, then they;'ll tell you to trot on, you'll probably all canter together (sometimes they don't do this as apparently it's dangerous), make sure your horse is in control and doesn't kick anyone, is behaving nicely when infront of judge, etc. You will do this on both reins. Next, get pulled into line up, and this time instead of the walk up and back then trot up and back away from judge, you'll be asked ot stand still while judge scrutinises your horse nad the overall 'picture' from many angles, then do an individual show. This is like a mini dressage test but you can do whatever you like. Do not get any more dressagey than some extended paces and/or rein back. No leg yielding, shoulder in, etc. Generally, a bit of a walk, then figure of eight in trot and one in canter is fine - be a bit more inventive than that, but just to give you an idea of the length - obviously play to your horse's strengths (e.g. if they have a rubbish walk keep that to a minimum!).
You might also be asked to jump a small jump as it's RC pony.
Then more walking round the outside then get pulled in and given a rosette.
you cna have a coloured browband and so on in the RC pony class too, and make sure everything matches nicely and is clean and pony well behaved. Use numnahs not saddle cloths, and ideally it should be brown, black or sheepskin. Pony should be in a plain snaffle noseband and ridden in a snaffle. Whip (if you have one) should be standard length and black or brown, no jumping whips or schooling ones. No boots on pony!
hope that helps?
dress nice and smartly, in what you wear to ride will be fine. Your pony can have a ncie in-hand bridle for this, and ideally with a butterfly clip and proper (leather) lead rein not a rope. If you don't have one, just reins over head is OK and your normal bridle with a nice browband if you have one.
You'll be asked to all walk round together on the outside of the ring. There are two people in the middle, one will have a clipboard (steward), the other is the judge. Make sure that when the judge looks at you, your pony is behaving like a little angel
. They'll watch you walk around the edge for what will seem like an eternity (don't get too close to the people in front, and avoid any youngsters acting up and spinning of whihc there might be a few). Eventually they will ask you to halt on one side of the arena (again keen a decent distance between nearby horses), and then you'll trot down the long side one by one. Make sure you really get your horse stepping out next to you, so let its head go and aim to be running by its shoulder. Practice at home to get it trotting on command so you don't have to drag it!!! not a good look ;-)They'll then have you walk around for another five hundred years, and pull you into a line. Sometimes they do this by who they like the best but sometimes by something else so don't panic at this stage. Then, each horse is 'pulled out' of line individually, i.e. you lead them by the judge, they walk around them. As this is a handler class, you'll be being assessed on how you are holding them - i.e. you should be standing back (not inhibitng judge's view), holding out head a little, encouraging them to doing a nice showing stand-up (square or one leg back, seems ot be), and keeping them controlled! They may well ask you to pick up each of thier feet in turn and stuff, becuase it's a handler class.
Next you will be asked ot walk the horse awya from the judge and back again - then trot away and abck again. This is just like for the vet, i.e. walk beside the shoulder, turn the horse in the direction AWAY from you not towards you, don't inhibit judge's view by walking infront of your horse, etc. Try and get them to stride out.
Then another hundred years as you wait for everyone else to do the same, then walk around the arena a bit more and they pull you in and give you a ncie shiny cup and a red rosette (hopefully!).
Ridden showing is similar, but obviously you're on top ;-). So start off with everyone going round the edge all together, at walk, then they;'ll tell you to trot on, you'll probably all canter together (sometimes they don't do this as apparently it's dangerous), make sure your horse is in control and doesn't kick anyone, is behaving nicely when infront of judge, etc. You will do this on both reins. Next, get pulled into line up, and this time instead of the walk up and back then trot up and back away from judge, you'll be asked ot stand still while judge scrutinises your horse nad the overall 'picture' from many angles, then do an individual show. This is like a mini dressage test but you can do whatever you like. Do not get any more dressagey than some extended paces and/or rein back. No leg yielding, shoulder in, etc. Generally, a bit of a walk, then figure of eight in trot and one in canter is fine - be a bit more inventive than that, but just to give you an idea of the length - obviously play to your horse's strengths (e.g. if they have a rubbish walk keep that to a minimum!).
You might also be asked to jump a small jump as it's RC pony.
Then more walking round the outside then get pulled in and given a rosette.
you cna have a coloured browband and so on in the RC pony class too, and make sure everything matches nicely and is clean and pony well behaved. Use numnahs not saddle cloths, and ideally it should be brown, black or sheepskin. Pony should be in a plain snaffle noseband and ridden in a snaffle. Whip (if you have one) should be standard length and black or brown, no jumping whips or schooling ones. No boots on pony!
hope that helps?
as sweet as hunni
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Thanks so once I have done my own little show in rc pony will the judge tell me when to stop? Or do I just go back go the line when I feel like it?
so once I have done my own little show in rc pony will the judge tell me when to stop? Or do I just go back go the line when I feel like it?
LeannePip
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do your show then trot back and halt in from of the judge and salut like you do in DR then they will most probably say 'thankyou' then you walk back to the lineup
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I did this a wee while ago for someone else on another forum but it covers your Young Handlers Class:
It's all about confidence. If you walk into the ring thinking that your the best you then relax a bit and enjoy yourself more.
A basic in-hand class goes - All walk into the ring one behind the other on the right rein. steward will stop you all in a corner and one by one send you trotting round the edge of the ring to the back of the line up. Once the last person is away trotting the first one then continues walking round the ring. You will all be pulled into the middle so keep on eye on the steward but don't walk with your head turned sideways watching. Once in the middle you all stand about and individually go and stand up for the judge. Follow what I have put below at this point. The judge may ask your age, ponies age, occasionaly they will ask you to pick up a foot - rare but it has been known. Once the judge says then walk away in a straight line, trot back on that line and straight past the judge to the ring edge then to the right. Usually this then leaves you behind the line up of ponies so extend your trot a little and go 1/2-3/4way down the line up before stopping and walking back into your place. Usually then you all get sent to walk round the edge again and will get called back into your final places. Once rosettes and flumf are handed out the first 6 will go for a trot lap of honour, the rest leave at a walk.
Make sure you have the pony walking out - not stretched and reaching to stride with you but not slow.
Same with trotting, find your ponies perfect trot speed so that they aren't dawdling or running.
When you go for your trot round the edge walk a stride or two first then trot off.
I always stand my pony up square when waiting to trot round the outside, and when stood up for the judge I stand in front of my pony and make a good point of checking all legs are in position - hopefully with minimal fiddling. I always have mine with the front feet square and one back slightly infront of the other, a few inches that it all.
Never ask them to step back if more than one foot needs moving, always bring them forwards a step.
When in front of the pony step to the side when the judge wants to look at the head on view of the legs.
When the judge is looking at the side on view pick some grass or some of the school up and sprinkle it down in front of your pony to try and get it to prick its ears and look alert - if your pony couldn't care less about what you are doing then at least you are doing something rather than nothing!
Walk and trot in as straight a line as possible and when turning at the end of the walk away go out and come round in a small circle rather than turn on the spot and walk for a stride or two before trotting as a horse trotting off a bend will stand more chance of giving the appearance of being lame. Trot back on the same line you walked out on - straight back towards the judge.
Pay attention to everything that is going on the the class and make sure your pony is perked up and attentive when the judge goes for a final look down the line.
It's all about indiviual flair. Exagerate slightly, go a bit ott, make yourself be noticed for all the right reasons!
Most importantly - Smile and have fun!
It's all about confidence. If you walk into the ring thinking that your the best you then relax a bit and enjoy yourself more.
A basic in-hand class goes - All walk into the ring one behind the other on the right rein. steward will stop you all in a corner and one by one send you trotting round the edge of the ring to the back of the line up. Once the last person is away trotting the first one then continues walking round the ring. You will all be pulled into the middle so keep on eye on the steward but don't walk with your head turned sideways watching. Once in the middle you all stand about and individually go and stand up for the judge. Follow what I have put below at this point. The judge may ask your age, ponies age, occasionaly they will ask you to pick up a foot - rare but it has been known. Once the judge says then walk away in a straight line, trot back on that line and straight past the judge to the ring edge then to the right. Usually this then leaves you behind the line up of ponies so extend your trot a little and go 1/2-3/4way down the line up before stopping and walking back into your place. Usually then you all get sent to walk round the edge again and will get called back into your final places. Once rosettes and flumf are handed out the first 6 will go for a trot lap of honour, the rest leave at a walk.
Make sure you have the pony walking out - not stretched and reaching to stride with you but not slow.
Same with trotting, find your ponies perfect trot speed so that they aren't dawdling or running.
When you go for your trot round the edge walk a stride or two first then trot off.
I always stand my pony up square when waiting to trot round the outside, and when stood up for the judge I stand in front of my pony and make a good point of checking all legs are in position - hopefully with minimal fiddling. I always have mine with the front feet square and one back slightly infront of the other, a few inches that it all.
Never ask them to step back if more than one foot needs moving, always bring them forwards a step.
When in front of the pony step to the side when the judge wants to look at the head on view of the legs.
When the judge is looking at the side on view pick some grass or some of the school up and sprinkle it down in front of your pony to try and get it to prick its ears and look alert - if your pony couldn't care less about what you are doing then at least you are doing something rather than nothing!
Walk and trot in as straight a line as possible and when turning at the end of the walk away go out and come round in a small circle rather than turn on the spot and walk for a stride or two before trotting as a horse trotting off a bend will stand more chance of giving the appearance of being lame. Trot back on the same line you walked out on - straight back towards the judge.
Pay attention to everything that is going on the the class and make sure your pony is perked up and attentive when the judge goes for a final look down the line.
It's all about indiviual flair. Exagerate slightly, go a bit ott, make yourself be noticed for all the right reasons!
Most importantly - Smile and have fun!
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