Getting my pony out and about

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I have a 15 month old Welsh sec A filly. She is registered but due to her markings is not allowed to be shown in M&M classes. I think I can CHAPS register however.

I would really like to get her out to a few shows this year but have I left it too late to enter any?

I am in Perthshire, have looked on the net but not found anything with the entries still open. Don't mind travelling upto 2 hours ish.

Also when I was a kid "Fishcross" used to have jumping classes on every weekend and one night through the week. I looked on their site and it seems to be a livery/riding school now. Do they not have show jumping there now?

If showing this pony in a coloured class would she be plaited up or not?
Thanks.
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She can certainly be shown at local level. The judge may or maynot approve of her markings but you'd be more than entiteled to enter her. There's also youngstock classes and (if she very good) young handler classes your daughter could do with her.

Once broken she could be a first ridden or leadrein easily.

There are very few shows left this summer. There's a few in and around edinburgh that have been rearranged from the spring but not many. They may not go anhead anyways if the weather doesn't improve :( Stupid weather.
 
It says on her Welsh passport that she may not be shown in M&M classes?

Daughter is only 3.5yrs old. Pony is very good but daughter has no awareness of getting squashed or stood on but maybe next year. If of course she behaves herself at a show lol

I wouldn't mind going to Edinburgh but if they are rescheduled wouldn't I have missed the entry?
 
I think because of the size/ height of her markings she would be classed as coloured which would mean she fails to meet the breed criteria.

Local shows tend to mix pure and part bred M+M's so you may be able to enter her as a part-bred it's worth checking.
 
Her parents are show ponies from a well known welsh A stud but she is on the x register because of the white on her being above her knees (I think, the belly patch is definitely wrong. I am not sure about her face lol). Coloureds aren't allowed to be registered as pure bred even though she is. I'm not bothered, I bought her because she is so different and she is for my daughter to pony club in the future so I just thought showing her would get her out and about meanwhile.

She has beautiful paces.
 
There are a few of the livery places and riding clubs that hold shows.
There is one at Brechin on the 2nd sept, entries on the day (bcequestrian.com). There are also things on at inchcoonans livery yard. I'm sure there will be shows closer. If you start with a few small riding club ones the judge may be able to advise you further.
 
An old coloured pony I had was entered with his previoius owner in a coloured show class and they kicked him out because he is "not coloured enough" even though he is a skewbald on his passport...he is gorgeous, but a little lacking in white splodges! He has a slash on his neck and in his mane, a little spot on hi neck the other side and a half moon on his butt, and a gorgeous white blaze with a paintpot splodge at the top, but nope, not coloured enough! Was very amusing...
 
Would be just my luck if she is too coloured for the welsh pony society and not coloured enough for anyone else lol.

She has another spot on her other side so hopefully that means she is lol.
 
Oh my that would be terrible! Amusing but terrible...yours already looks like she has more white on that one belly piece than my old one had all over! He was a lovely brown with his white, a gorgeous thick black mane and tail, black gradiation over his knees, white socks on his fronts/stockings on hinds and white feet with ermine spots - absolutely gorgeous! A real character with lovely paces too...
 
Yes he was, I meant to buy him to improve and sell on when he was 6/7 but I kept him til he was 13/14 and now he is in the Channel Islands winning all the SJ classes he is entered into! I will have a hunt round for a photo, if I can work out how to post one! unfortunately I found it very difficult to get him to concentrate enough with dressage to pull out his snazzy trots and extension that he did in the field and whilst jumping. Jumping is very much his thing and for 13.2 he jumps pretty massive (about 4ft) even though by the point he could compete at that height I was a little too big to let him jump that height often - we were dragged into a 3.9ft class when I was in PC teams because two horses from the team went lame and they needed a third...we had already done three classes that day, but he was still feeling fresh, he didn't knock a single thing, and was well within time (the other two bigger horses had poles) very impressed with him!
 
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