How do you carry all the tophies home when you hack to a show?

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Tomorrow I am going to a local show that is in hacking distance (just up the lane).

I plan to win the Hunter Class which will automatically enter me into the Show Championship - and win that aswell.

Possibly even the Open jumping if I can be bothered to hang around that long.

How will I carry all those enormous cups hacking home?

(NB: This post is aimed only at people with a sense of humour!!!
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Actually if it was our riding club show the trophies probably wouldn't have been returned by the winners from the previous year......
 
Loop the reins through the handles on the sides of the cups.

Alernatively, fill them with champagne, drink from them and then throw them in a hegde! ( You'll only have to dust them if you take hem home!!!!)
 
I have this problem every show I go too.....too many trophies and not enough baler twine to drag them home with
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Perhaps train equines to ride and drive.... then you can drive them there..... pikey style, with the second one being dragged along behind.... keep all the tack in the wagon, and then drive home with your winnings in the wagon, stop off on the way home at the local gypsy camp, and sell the silverware to the owner of the biggest mobile home.....

Result!!!
 
does your horse drive?? if so there's your answer!! otherwise put them on your head, as you are quite clearly such and excellent rider you will sit still enough and straight enough to get then home like that!!
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Could you get the film star who is presenting the Open Jumping Cup to pop them home for you in his beautiful convertible motor car?
You could offer him a cup of tea in your old but serviceable china, on that beautifully laundered white cloth, and statistically, he's then almost certain to ask you to marry him.
 
You forget that I live in a nice area
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- No Pikey camps here!

But perhaps I could ebay the trophies and get my money back!

I now have images of me riding home like a wedding car with cups and trophies dragging behind instead of tin cans
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, as you are quite clearly such and excellent rider

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I didn't realise you knew me in real life - obviously my reputation proceeds me
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Could you get the film star who is presenting the Open Jumping Cup to pop them home for you in his beautiful convertible motor car?
You could offer him a cup of tea in your old but serviceable china, on that beautifully laundered white cloth, and statistically, he's then almost certain to ask you to marry him.

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Fantastic idea - I will just have to hide the old man in the shed - or hope he goes fishing!!!
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If the old man is in the shed then you won't have to hide him surely? Will the celebrity want to look in the shed? I know it means housework, but surely you can make space for the celeb in the house?
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I used to take a backpack filled with my lunch - would eat the lunch and use the empty bag to put the cups in.
 
I'm taking back the two huge trophies our horse won last year for the WH Championship tomorrow to our local show, we meant to get them engraved as we've won them two years' running now but of course we forgot.. Had you been going to our show I could have delivered them straight to you!!!!
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I was supposed to be judging those classes tomorrow but the male judge decided he wanted them, so I'm doing Best Thelwell, best Conditioned, Tack and Turn out, Best veteran and a few others. It's a brilliant little show, sort of big country type thing with a massive ferris wheel in the next door field and lots of noise, so ideal for young horses to get accustomed to atmosphere.
My husband has just said he plans on taking his four year old to allow it to see jumps for the first time, now he will be in the ring next to mine and I am hoping he doesn't embarrass me, if he gets bucked off I may just pretend I have never seen him before in my life....
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If the old man is in the shed then you won't have to hide him surely? Will the celebrity want to look in the shed? I know it means housework, but surely you can make space for the celeb in the house?
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Oh God - its so late and I have drank copious amounts of wine - but never mind. I will start doing the housework now so that its presentable for when Ben Fogle/Johnny Kingdom turns up!!!
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Would you like to practice the housework, to make sure? I can offer you my house to work on first, if you can sort this place out then anywhere else will be a doddle
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Very good luck with the judging tomorrow - its a nightmare!!

Also hope that OH stays on young horse and saves you from embarrassment!!
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Would you like to practice the housework, to make sure? I can offer you my house to work on first, if you can sort this place out then anywhere else will be a doddle
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By the time I had driven to Yorkshire and done your housework - I would never be back in time for the show, then I wouldn't win all the cups and hence this post would be pointless!!!
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