In hand showing

[Pony_Puzz]

I've been looking at a few posts on showing wear such as jackets etc but they seem to be for ridden. I'm hoping to take my skewbald gelding in a non native in hand class and wondered about a few things. The class is just a local show but didn't want to look too out of place. Any help will be welcomed!

So I have currently got a grey/blue tweed jacket, white shirt and stock (have a whip pin to put in it too), beige breeches, long black boots(too tight) or long brown boots (bit toe big nothing major), a navy champion hat though I may be able to dig out my old black with pale strap hat (though the strap has gone light brown with use!). Do you have to carry a crop and if so what colour?

Horse wise; I have a black leather bridle with a flash noseband, d ring french link snaffle. Do I need to change the noseband and I'm assuming he will need plaiting. Also his tail is only just starting to grow from being pulled very weirdly so it is very thick up the top and just long enough to plait.

Thanks!

 

[Pony_Puzz]

Forgot to ask if I can use reins or need a leather lead rope.

 

[Lucy_Nottingham]

Jacket will be fine

IDEALLY a shirt and tie is more correct ....

If your horse has dark legs then light trousers, if light/white legs then dark trousers, easy running shoes, but smart.

Navy hat is more correct.

A plain caveson noseband (pref flat, but not totally necessary) with no flash. Snaffle will be fine (unless its a hunter class in which case it should be a pelham)

and reins over the head is correct, not a lead rope.

Have fun!

 

[Lucy_Nottingham]

o and you are better to carry a brown cane, and should have brown gloves as well!

 

[lindsayH]

I would also add to the above that as you're going to plait his tail, I would plait his mane too. A coupling chain and a leather lead is both much smarter and much easier than reins. You don't have to carry a show cane but it completes the look and can be handy. I wear paddock boots which I can run in but also look smart.

 

[Pony_Puzz]

Sorry I didn't reply been away this weekend. Thanks! I'm going to attempt to plait his tail though its very thick and has grown all wavy!

He's going in a coloured class and he has all white socks, so I'm assuming that I could either wear dark jodphurs or black trousers?
Brown gloves, brown cane, black cavesson noseband needed then and either reins or a leather rope.

Also I do have a shirt and tie as well as a stock. Does it matter about the colour of the tie?

 

[Kub]

I've just done my first in hand show so here's what I did...

Tweed jacket with shirt and tie. I was told a bright colour tie is good to perk up the whole look (I've got a red one with little white flowers) and definitely a tie rather than a stock. Ideally it should be well fitting trousers, not jodphurs, but tbh there were quite a few in biege jodphurs at the show I went to so you could probably get away with it.

For a local show, black tack is fine but if you're going higher in the future, it's usually brown. A leather in hand lead with double or single chain is much easier than reins, I've tried both and so glad I went with the double chain in the end, easier to hold etc. Here's a pic of me from yesterday if it helps at all. My boy is a native, but he's coloured too

 

[Pony_Puzz]

Ahh fabulous! Well done by the way! Thanks, I have a pair of black trousers so I'll probably wear them as they are smarter!

Yeah I haven't decided to go higher yet just want to sort of blow the steam out of him as he keeps bucking me off when we go to new places as it's so exciting! He's going in the non native coloured in hand class.
This is what he looks like:

As you can see he still has clip lines too and I'm going to do his feathers + mane again as they have become a bit long.

Please excuse the water marks on his girth (just ridden) and especially the dirt! He loves it too much

 

[CalllyH]

gloves arnt essential though

a girl at the one i went to at the weekend had a bright pink shirt on with a bright yellow stripey tie - no jacket. I wouldnt advise it tbh!

 

[Pony_Puzz]

I have a white shirt and a red tie. So thats fine, I do need new gloves though as I only have snot green with holes or odd black ones with holes! Lovely choice

 

[3DE]

I've found judges prefer a pulled tail (for non-natives than a plaited one). One said plaiting is seen as lazy

 

[CalllyH]

all the little ponies had plaited tails but the bigger ones had lose well pulled tails

 

[Pony_Puzz]

Unfortunately if I pull my ponies tail it goes like a mini hedgehog, I've been growing it out and have had to thin it a could of times! (I also personally thought he looked like an idiot with it). I thought non native was fine for him as we think he is an Irish Cob X Connemara?