Greedy BSJA robbers - rant

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My daughter has been doing quite well doing the amatuer BSJA classes with her vetran Grade A and has won about £550 on him this season. When I renewed his registration they charged me an extra £50 cos he had won over £500 since Jan 07 which I think is disgusting and this made his renewal fee £150.00!
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This £50 'supplement' goes up to winnings of £2,500 which is a big jump from just £500.
He is hardly ' Milton' and these fee's put us ordinary people off having a bit of fun doing BSJA up to the 1.20m level.
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The rules have been like that for years, depending on the amount of winnings a horse has depends on the mount that is payable in registering the horse the following season. You have exceeded a certain amount & are liable for a higher payment. I cannot see the problem, do you consider you should be exempt? You've won £550 since January, the extra £50 can be paid out of that surely. Imagine how much the higher winners in the sport pay for registering their top horses
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Exactly, and yes thats fair for top horses that win top prize money but not for hobby horses that win £30 or £40 a class. Like I say even an extra £50 is fair for horses that have won a couple of thousand in a season but £500 is not much in comparison - of which that extra £50 is an increase of 10% in fees which is very steep.
I will pay it cos I have to but think the limit should be much higher and yes I think for these reasons, I and others in the same boat should be exempt
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I would have been in the same postion as you (if my horse hadn't gone lame) as she had won over £500 in a season, but luckily for me she still has about small amount of money in Grade B. So to make you feel even more annoyed, my horse has won more than yours in a season but I only have to pay £78 to re reg her.
 
Don't worry wonkey I have to pay £500 to register my 4yo because he still has his knackers................................
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My rant would be that stallions shouldn't have to pay higher registration fees until 6 or 7yos given them a chance to prove themselves and get graded has its very differcult to get graded without any winnings catch 22..............obviously if they haven't graded by 6 or 7 then they should be subject to higher fees because obviously they aren't good enough to get graded, it really stings the small time breeder the higher fees............................little rant over
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Do the BSJA still do the assessment for young stallions before they are graded? I thought you took them and jumped a small course and if they showed talent you don't have to pay the stallion registration fee, or has that all changed again?
 
Wish I could win £550 in less than a year - would happily pay £50 for the priviledge too
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ETS: There are plenty of us that never win that amount of money in the am classes because of the Grade As and Bs that are eligible to jump the classes, so I could get all mardy and say that I think it is unfair that your daughter is jumping classes that she obv finds rather easy, but I won't as thats Sjing and I take it on the chin
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Actually Weezy my daughter's a 15 year old 'weekend rider' kid on a vetran horse that got to Grade A just doing the amatuer type classes, and she doesn't find it 'easy' at all, she just works hard at building a good relationship with her horse
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. These classes were designed exactly for this type of partnership as it was felt there are already plenty of small classes for novice horses such as British Novice and Discovery and it gave the 'normal' riders a chance to compete on equal terms from a tiny 90cm to a reasonable 1.20m level.
Also, it's rarely follows that just because a horse has reached Grade A or B that it's automatically going to 'beat' the more novice horses - as quite often the good graded horses just don't have the speed for the amatuer classes and only come into their own when the fences go up.
Likewise, there are loads of graded horses and ponies that have never jumped a class bigger than about 1.0m as they are just not scopey enough but nevertheless they regularly win money and steadily move through the grades. There is nothing wrong with that surely?
Perhaps, if you don't think it's fair competing in open amateur classes with Grade A's and B's then why not do the novice and Grade C classes - there are plenty of them and not a Grade A or B in sight!
Alternatively, as my mother always told me 'don't get bitter - just get better' !!!
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