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[rooooosie]

Can you be pulled up or eliminated or penalised, for excessivly using your voice?
Ie. growling, shouting etc.?

I mean really shouting not just growling normally, obviously in encouragement but is this frowned upon or penalised?

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[MissDeMeena]

Depends on what sort of language you use while shouting i guess

More of the English less of the Irish, and i'm sure no one would mind

 

[rooooosie]

Yes i assumed as long as it wasnt explicit so to speak, it would be ok.. but apparently people have been pulled up for shouting/growling loudly coming into fences?

 

[lucretia]

if it were a rule, mrs fredericks might not have been quite so winning on headley britannia in the past.......

 

[rooooosie]

thats a bit of a releif, friend has a 6yo that is a fair bit green and manages to get him round but shouting and growling and is due to take him to his first event soon!

 

[seche]

Very good indeed!
Im all for giving a good encouraging (if you dont jump there will be trouble) growl - I try hard to refrain from swearing though!

 

[Jul]

I have had laughing comments from the commentator a couple of times when I have given a bit of 'verbal encouragement', but it did the trick! My horse responds well to a bit of a 'Go-OOON' and if that works I'd rather do that than whack her. I'm sure the rules will always agree with that point of view.

 

[kick_On]

i could only see you would penalised if you are swearing

at horse - as a fence judge i would defo report swearing at horse before jump instead of rider, riding fence.

But not for general 'GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR GET OVER!!' or 'Come on! look at the jump!! Good BOY'

As i have a running commentary to my horse, Not generally before jump (only done once this season and it was at jump where lots of folks where getting Big E and it was very pony clubish 'GET OVER!!' but was backed up with biggest pony club kicks out!!!!), but defo after jumps and all my mate know where i am on course as we get lots 'GOOD BOYs', 'Come on lets get going!!!' 'Let cut corner here mate, good boy!'

 

[sarahs]

I would defo of been eliminated by now if there was, a do a number of differnt growling sounds, none of them understandable, not in english for some reason the have a spanish twist - like " UPA" I seem to put an A on the end of everything ! I normally do it when I get a fence completely wrong so he probably understands growling to mean "Over to you mate and dont you dare dump me"

 

[Booosh]

We have a trainer who refers to BE Intro as the 'Good Boy' class as alot of riders screech 'Gooood Boy...!' as they clear each fence on the xc! lol

 

[now_loves_mares]

That's a bit sexist

Don't think my mare would be too impressed if I called her a boy