London International horse show

[Crazy_cat_lady]

What was John's trophy for?

Just watched the small dogs, id run out of puff trying to keep up with them after about jump 1 loved watching them though

Interesting to see lots of cross breeds, I thought as it was part of the kennel club theyd need to be purebreed? (Not a dog person!)

 

[druid]

KC activity register - don't have to be purebred for the sports side

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Has the Shetland racing become more "who you know"?

Swear it used to be children other than children of jockeys

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

KC activity register - don't have to be purebred for the sports side

That makes sense as they aren't showing they are doing sports events. Can they breed from them?

 

[Traks]

Has the Shetland racing become more "who you know"?

Swear it used to be children other than children of jockeys

I thought this!

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Lovely to see the Shetland jockey in pink sleeves patting him despite not winning

 

[Babypony]

Spirit of the horse is a bit dry. We used to do this kind of drill riding at the riding school.

 

[lynz88]

Loved the small dog agility

I quite like watching the dog agility. I love the combined sj and agility class at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Horse jumps a course and then dog does agility and their scores are combined. You could have a fab sj round but the dog goes off-course or something! So you really really never know how it will turn out!!

 

[j1ffy]

Has the Shetland racing become more "who you know"?

Swear it used to be children other than children of jockeys

A couple of friends’ kids do it and it sounds like the clique-est thing I’ve ever heard of (and both are from big racing families). I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it!

 

[teapot]

Well that was errr dull.

 

[Babypony]

Well that was errr dull.

Horses not too keen on the old capriole

 

[rara007]

RC Quadrille winners would be more fun than the Hungarians.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

I know its just me left on this thread but "sander tit and fanny - the last chance I get to say that on the bbc" - has to win the night

Haha just saw that bit!

 

[humblepie]

What was John's trophy for?

Just watched the small dogs, id run out of puff trying to keep up with them after about jump 1 loved watching them though

Interesting to see lots of cross breeds, I thought as it was part of the kennel club theyd need to be purebreed? (Not a dog person!)

John was highest placed British rider. The Walwyn trophy.

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Love this human high jump, reminds me of my childhood jumping "jumps" made out of flower pots and garden canes on foot

The spirit thing was er... dull.

 

[rhino]

The jockeys are looking a little more like proper SJers this year. God there have been a few dodgy moments in previous years in this class!

ETA think I jinxed it

 

[ester]

A couple of friends’ kids do it and it sounds like the clique-est thing I’ve ever heard of (and both are from big racing families). I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it!

With have a yard person just finished her first year, not fast enough to qualify yet but they’ve loved it. Her younger pony will probably be quicker once they get him out, obviously been learning the ropes with something a bit more experienced.

 

[SOS]

I went for my first time on Saturday and won’t be rushing back although knowing the Excel well from work events so it was really interesting to see it transformed for LIHS and taking up so many halls!

The shopping was repetitive and there wasn’t loads of it. If you’ve been to any other horsey/country event this year, you’ve seen 90% of the stalls there.

The smaller arena had dog agility on all afternoon, which IMO has no place there. I’d much rather see the time given to horse related content considering it’s a horse show.

The Hungarian show was at best mediocre and at times a very uncomfortable watch. The horse in hand doing caprioles on our day looked very unhappy, it’s head was touching its chest in side reins, whilst pressure was applied with long reins and a whip - it hardly had anywhere to go other than up and out.

There were also long periods of time where both arenas were empty and the shopping rammed. It would be nice if this was staggered so there was better distribution of people and more choice of what to do.

A shame as I was so looking forward to a real horsey day.

We did get to see some very expensive horses sold at the auction which was an interesting watch! Particularly as one of the top lots stumbled four times in the arena during its auction.