How did your youngsters act at their first shows?

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I am going tomorrow, so want to know how your youngsters reacted at their first shows
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My yearling is generally quite quiet and good. He was fine there,as long as i kept him moving or let him eat. However he did have one mini rear and tried to leap about once and took off a little when the horse was cantering by in the adjacent ring. On the whole though he was much better than i expected and i was extremely pleased with his behaviour!
 
mine went to his first show today..........he was rearing so that was us out !!!
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the other though who we wernt expecting much of got a second - im dead chuffed - amazed actually, they really pull it out of the bag sometimes when you least expect it
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Mine has never bucked or reared the whole time i've have had him just usually runs round me in circles, he was good to bath today but i think he is suspecting something the major achievement will be getting him in the trailer lol
 
My Arab was quite calm apart from lots of calling but then my 2 were in the same ring, but my yearling who is usually very chilled was a nightmare spinning and rearing! Good luck tomorrow and dont forget they can only get better its all experience.
 
Mine has never bucked or reared at home or done anything silly in fact. Can do anything with him but it was his first time away from home and alone. I didn't want him to be dependant on a friend whilst there and i thought it might also make it worse if he knew one of his friends was somewhere...
 
You will be fine, try not to feel nervous or he will feed from you!! Mine doesn't like it when i growl at him to tell him off so when he tried to muck about i just growled and when he settled down i gave him lots of fuss. He got better as time went on and did settle down more than when we first arrived when he realised it wasn't so bad.
 
i found the whole situation v stressful!! all of a sudden you notice those whizzy kids and ponies and people standing and chatting in walk ways- i chose a very quiet spot, almost on the edge of the show ground just walked her round let her graze etc. we did almost take out a lady and pram at one point!!!
 
in all fairness we almost took them out as they insisted on aimlessly wandering round the walk ways with prams, screaming children, baloons and candy floss and various attached ponies and dogs!!! there is only so much my mare will tolerate!!!

get there early and find a quiet spot- i had my poor mum guarding an invisable 10ft fence round me, barking instructions at her all day. poor mum
 
Dolly was a superstar who won her two classes. Never put a foot wrong, we all had a wonderful day.

Good luck & give us the report.
 
Sure he'll be fine - tbh it's almost worse when you get them there and they just go flat - you want a little bit of 'oomph' in the ring.

Go along to any big welsh shows and watch the youngstock classes - nobody gets too bothered by them being a bit hyper, though you don't want it to interfere with the judge getting a decent look at them! If its mixed m&M some of the other breeds handlers might give you disapproving looks if your welshie decides to be obnoxious, but they're obviously just sore that they don't have such a charismatic breed!!!
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(Nothwithstanding the obvious requirement not to get towed out of the ring or barge into anyone!! If possible get a friend positioned near the exit!)
 
mine acted like a 17hh stallion (he was 15.1hh welsh sec D) and diddnt quite know where to put himself or where to look first or rather the shock of seeing that other horses really did such hard work! it wiped him out for a few days mentaly i think !!
 
All of my youngsters have come away with rosettes at their first show as all have had a damn good grouding before we went...and the fact that they wouldn't DARE misbehave had something to dop with it
 
1st show as a yearling - quite good. Lots of neighing and took about an a hour and half to "settle" but behaved beautifuly in the class and got 3rd. 2nd show a bit better, third show even better. 4th show a right cow and worse than the first time - but still got 2nd. 5th show - kind of got the hang of it and won. 6th show next weekend - will find out then but more or less getting better each time and settling quicker as each show passes.
 
ones 1st show was as a foal, she laid down after having some milk and went to sleep!
my other baby just wanted to sleep, wasnt bothered about the huge number of entries or the tannoys, just stood there bored
 
First show, excited with a bit of barging and fidgeting, but nothing too bad, and was made worse by her companion who was supposed to be setting a good example barging me, getting free, and joining in with the youngsters in the ring!

Second show (with producers this time!) lots of calling, but very well behaved to handle, and finally settled down enough to just stand still with our group and chill out. Oh, 4th at the first show, and a 1st and two 2nds at the second show, and qualified for Royal London.
 
Not a youngster - but I took my 8yr old who has never done anything but stand in a field to his first show two weekends ago. I didn't enter him in any classes though as I wanted to make sure I was calm, just tagged along with someone else and led / rode him about. I was worried because out hacking he finds strange horses terribly exciting. He was absolutely perfect though, a bit of calling at first but no bad behaviour.

He was fascinated by the show-jumping, I don't think he'd ever seen horses jumping coloured poles before. He didn't find it exciting, more a case of 'what on EARTH are those odd people / horses doing'.
 
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