Newbie here and after fancy dress help please?!

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Hi everyone! My name is Peta and I own Henry, a 9 year old Shire cross welsh cob. He's 17hh and adores jumping. For a bit of fun, we're entering a fancy dress comp on Bank Hol Monday (yes I am 29!!) and I am really stuck for ideas. I don't want to do the obvious red Indian or cowgirl... Does anyone have any thoughts?

Henry will be fine with stuff dangling off him or over his face, he doesn't really care about that sort of thing, so anything goes really! However it must be relatively easy for me to get hold of and not too pricey!

Thanks in advance
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Oh and I hope piccies are ok to post? Just a few of Henry so you can see what he looks like:

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He's lovely...

a friend of mine went as the runaway bride last year. It was quite funny!
You could even make Henry a groom..

Whatever you decide make sure to take some pics lol
 
Well will tell you some stuff people and me have done at my yard

I did superman last year, cape for me, cape for horse you could do, I just bought some kids party plates with the superman logo on and then something blue

Racing stripes from the disney film

Cant think of the others right now will get back to you!
 
The most elaborate one I've ever seen was Pirates of The Carribean.

The girl was dressed as Cpt. Jack and the pony had a cardboard boat strapped around it! It must have taken ages to make but was v. impressive.
 
You could go as a chess piece lol, and use your horse as the board. Make a castle / king headdress to fit around your hat or something? Lovely horse!
 

Hi, and welcome to the forum. Henry is a lovely boy.

Thanks for asking that question too as I was going to post this today. My daughter is going to her first gymkhana and I am stuck for fancy dress ideas.
 
I went as Friar Tuck once - made a "habit" out of a brown curtain, used a swimming cap and some wool to make a bald head, hung a cross round my neck (cut it out of cardboard and covered it in tin-foil - to make it bigger than an ordinary one) and worse some sandals... oh and of course stuffed a pillow in the front to make me round!

For the horse, I made a basic rug and stuck chocolate bars and packets of crisps on it and had a sign on saying "friar tuck shop"

Well I thought it was different, but I was about 12 and made it all myself!

Last time, sister and I went as abba - made a brown long wig for her horse, and a blonde one for mine (out of wool), made flares for their legs, had satin excercise sheets with ABBA across the bum, lots of sequins and CD's dangling off it, and we had abba style outfits on and "beards" drawn on in eye pencil!

It was great fun! And I'll have been about 30 at the time... sister was a bit younger but still mid 20's.
 
I thought about My Little Pony - would be a laugh as Henry is so big! I could stick some glittery things on his butt and try and attach some ribbons to his mane (he's hogged)... Not sure what I'd wear though!
 
The best fancy dress I have seen was a girl who dressed her horse as a bus...she put a red sheet type thing over the horse and painted windows and wheels on it...was so original and cracked me up.
 
me and my sister always used to enter fancy dress when we were younger with our ponies! I wish I had photos!!!
 
Hi and welcome - what a lovely horse - at least half of him is a proper horse - yes I have heavies.
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You could put an old green rug on, attach christmas decoration and go as the tree top fairy - easy to do and very effective and you can scare the cr*p out of the ridden hunter class in the next ring with all the sleigh bells as I did once on my TB.

My most daring was a blanket with rubbish attached, a flesh coloured bikini and a womble mask - was only 14 and all went well until my arab spooked and objected when the wind blew to the rubbish (I was bareback) and I ended up a clinging for dear life rather than the streaking womble I had gone in as.

Hope you find something fun and enjoy the forum.
 
HELLO PETA!!!!!!!! (waves excitedly from Somerset)

How are you, glad you found this forum too! I had a feeling it might be you and Henry when I saw your name.

Henry is looking BEAUTIFUL btw, what are your plans for the summer with him? Polly and I are intending to do lots and lots of XC related activities and maybe some Intro events if we are brave enough! Nothing like Syde Park though LOL - is that running again this year?
 
JENNY!!!!! Way hay! Hello darlin' how's things? How are you recovering after the whole falling off malarky? How's Polly doing? Still mad?! LOL!

Henry and I have been concentrating on dressage - he can jump xc with his eyes closed so the flat and SJ needs some work. He's been brilliant, learnt how to passage and pirouette, and loves loves loves doing medium trot, I can't stop him; he even does it out hacking LOL! He's coming along really well and we've been doing a lot of Novice tests, getting quite good scores too when he's in the mood. Often judges are prejudiced that he's going to lumber about shaking the ground, but he's so light and responsive they are gobsmacked!

I've learnt a lot from Lottie too, and she's doing so well! She was featured in HORSE magazine recently with Father Jerry (her grey 4* horse Ted) and went clear round Burghley last summer, which was amazing. Went and cheered her on, shared some bubbly after the xc phase and met William Fox-Pitt - just the best day ever :O)

I'm not sure if Syde Park is on, several events have been cancelled due to the ground conditions. if it is, will you come up again? Would be great to see you again!
 
WOW, sounds as if you and Henry are doing great!

Polly and I are getting along alright at the moment. After my accident I couldn't wait to get back in the saddle but there was a LOT of subconsious stuff going on with me when I did.

Basically I couldn't bear to be out of control for a single second which made jumping difficult as I wouldn't let poor Polly take me into the fence - I had to dictate every stride. So she got p*ssed off with me and started stopping
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which of course, only made me worse... Because a lot of this stuff took a while to come to the surface, i got really down about it. At the same time I was having all these nerves about getting on horses I didn't know which, considering I work at a dealing yard, was rather unfortunate. I would make all these excuses to stay on the yard and then feel really gutted when other people got to ride... I got myself into a right old state.

But I've been doing a lot of XC and just holding onto the neck strap and letting Polly get on with it which has really helped. Also had quite a few lessons and have been going to every 'back to basics' rally I can and getting lots of practical advise from my instructors. My boss has been good as well and tries to come in the arena with me if I'm riding one of his so he can yell at me for being tense and generally feeble LOL so I've got control of my body back!

This summer I'm gonna carry on taking my BHS exams and just have fun with Polly and not do anything serious. If I am back up to jumping double clears at 3' by the end of the summer I will be happy. Then hopefully a winter's hunting with the Harriers will get my confidence back 100% and I can start competing more seriously next year.

It sounds as if you and Henry are coming on amazinly well - I would love to see him doing his dressage thing! I will PM you with any gossip as well.
 
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Hi and thanks! He's 75% shire, is that better

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Yes but it would be even better if he were Clydesdale as they are the best of the heavy horses - not that I am totally biased.
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Hello and welcome Peta, first things first i have to say that I think Henry is absolutely stunning!

I have just been in a fancy dress (well my grandaughter was, with me on the other end of the lead rein) and the winners were 2 girls and their pony who dressed up as '118', they stuck the numbers 118 on the pony's quartes and shoulders, made a cardboard mustache (sp) for him,and put training socks with the feet cut on his legs. They wore white t-shirts with 118 on front and back, stuck on mustaches, black curly wigs and a sweatband around their foreheads! Very original and not much expense - they deserved to win - even after I had spent hours making a b....y princess outfit for the pony!!
 
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Hi and thanks! He's 75% shire, is that better

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Yes but it would be even better if he were Clydesdale as they are the best of the heavy horses - not that I am totally biased.
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I have been looking at Clydes for the last 4 years! Wish I could afford to get one *sigh* I just ADORE them! My dream is a Clyde mare that I could breed coloured babies from...
 
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Hello and welcome Peta, first things first i have to say that I think Henry is absolutely stunning!

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Thank you so much! he is my dream horse!
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LOL at the 118 ponies!
 
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