Green ribbons??

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emmaln

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Hello lovely hhoer's,

I have now booked my 4 yr olds first dressage and jumping shows for next month and it'll be the first time I've been out to play for a little while so wanted to check things haven't changed too much??

My friend told me the other day that White gloves are no longer allowed for low level dressage so now I'm wondering what else has changed?!?

I would like to put a green ribbon in her tail in the hope that people will give us a little more space as she is a youngster and therefore has the potential to be unpredictable? Is this still acceptable?

Thankies
 
Yes, people will the hopefully give you a wide birth, as it means the horse is young/novice/ etc

Take a couple of pairs of gloves, they don't have to be white, just pale in colour but for low level dressage you can still get away with dark colours at some events, so if you take a few pairs, see what everyone else is sporting, then you can put which ever pair you want on, you can pick up those cotton pimple riding gloves for a couple of quid now so it won't cost much to have a few pairs, besides they always come in handy if your anything like me....constantly loosing them! :D

Good luck!
 
I would put a red ribbon in. most people will respect that a lot more! A lot of people don't seem to know what a green ribbon is so ignore it, but a red one everyone knows so you will get a lot more room. Also you don't know how she will react.

For example my gentle kind sweet WB kicked out a few times in his first warm up session I was extremely shocked. He had been in the school lots of times with other horses and never showed any signs he might do this. But the Warm up was crowded and he got over excited and silly.

However he hasn't done it since so was obviously just a bit too much for him the first time

smile and have fun
 
As soulfull says many people either don't know what a green ribbon is or if they do they ignore it! I find it to be pretty useless, and I hope this doesn't upset anyone, but it seems a lot of teenagers/younger riders take no notice of it at all ( that makes me sound old!!) and it could be they just don't know what it stands for.

A red ribbon stands out and people do tend to give you a wider berth so I would stick one of those in just to be safe.
 
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