rara007
Well-Known Member
I doubt any of you have been there- but OMG- it's mad!
We were just doing the VHS qualifier to try to get to the regionals of that
Arrived with plenty of time and slowly got him ready. The car park was calm, though massive! Went and spent 5mins in the warm up wich was a 30X30 on the hard grass with 5 other people. Not ideal for a lumbering shod cob that really needs to shift on to properly canter! Then even though we were really early ventured passaging up the horse walk- he's electric fencing phobic so that was a mission in itself. It's so, so mad there! Firstly you go past the inhand welsh rings, followed by the driving ring (obviously he's used to carriages but hackney in wagons passing out and about 10 heavy horse turnouts going in is quite a lot!) to then wait behind the main display arena. Including mad clowns and load funny cars, driving sheep popping out from under their lorry, and motorbikes appearing over head doing stunts. Plus helicopter rides. Oh, and the fair ground. Fortunately about 9 years ago he had done some county showing, but TBH I've not been to a county show where the horse rings are so centrally placed. Milled around near the show jumpers for what seemed like ages before going into the little collecting ring and managing a few trots and walk to canters.
Finally we went in. We went in about 3rd as I'm not one for holding back but thought others could deal with passing the fairground first
Unfortunately they then scattered, but by now Pie was settled and strode past Very high standard class, with more than one person having already been to Olympia I think, and most already having their regionals qualification. Some really stunning horses. We showed in any order, and I was a bit miffed to have asked for canter downhill and got a wrong strike off. Bummer! Came to calling the numbers out and we'd come 6th 
So just enough to qualify by the skin of our teeth. Good old Pie
Chaos waiting to go in: (yes banded plaits- I just didn't have time as I've a slow stitcher but fast bander- he lives an hour from home, and hour the other way to the show and I few back from Spain the day before!)
Past the fair!
16hh looking like a pony- show hunters really are huge!
Obviously he's now sadly rather between types now his hair has gone- do I hog or not?
I'm stealing him back for the regionals for a bit of fun But other than that as I'm back at uni and he is so far away I think that'll be that 
We were just doing the VHS qualifier to try to get to the regionals of that
Arrived with plenty of time and slowly got him ready. The car park was calm, though massive! Went and spent 5mins in the warm up wich was a 30X30 on the hard grass with 5 other people. Not ideal for a lumbering shod cob that really needs to shift on to properly canter! Then even though we were really early ventured passaging up the horse walk- he's electric fencing phobic so that was a mission in itself. It's so, so mad there! Firstly you go past the inhand welsh rings, followed by the driving ring (obviously he's used to carriages but hackney in wagons passing out and about 10 heavy horse turnouts going in is quite a lot!) to then wait behind the main display arena. Including mad clowns and load funny cars, driving sheep popping out from under their lorry, and motorbikes appearing over head doing stunts. Plus helicopter rides. Oh, and the fair ground. Fortunately about 9 years ago he had done some county showing, but TBH I've not been to a county show where the horse rings are so centrally placed. Milled around near the show jumpers for what seemed like ages before going into the little collecting ring and managing a few trots and walk to canters.
Finally we went in. We went in about 3rd as I'm not one for holding back but thought others could deal with passing the fairground first
Unfortunately they then scattered, but by now Pie was settled and strode past Very high standard class, with more than one person having already been to Olympia I think, and most already having their regionals qualification. Some really stunning horses. We showed in any order, and I was a bit miffed to have asked for canter downhill and got a wrong strike off. Bummer! Came to calling the numbers out and we'd come 6th So just enough to qualify by the skin of our teeth. Good old Pie Chaos waiting to go in: (yes banded plaits- I just didn't have time as I've a slow stitcher but fast bander- he lives an hour from home, and hour the other way to the show and I few back from Spain the day before!)
Past the fair!
16hh looking like a pony- show hunters really are huge!
Obviously he's now sadly rather between types now his hair has gone- do I hog or not?
I'm stealing him back for the regionals for a bit of fun
But other than that as I'm back at uni and he is so far away I think that'll be that
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