Our FIRST and i think LAST show !! - piccies

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There we go, we got a second and third, but there weren't many entries! ;)

But it just wasn't my thing really - so much waiting around, I found it all really deadly boring - am I allowed to say that ? :o Such hard work getting ready too. And then he had two poos, each of which called for emergency measures - urgh the hassle !

I was secretly looking forward to the jumping, but that was cancelled due to the ground....but that is definitely our thing ;)
 
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Thanks, yes he scrubbed up clean, bless him. I had to sedate him to do his feathers tho. Poor lad, I don't know who was more bored - him or me ! Still he got extra Top Spec when we got home. Love my boy. x
 
He looks fabulous, but I know what you mean about the waiting around and getting ready. You need to take up dressage - less waiting around and don't have to be quite so pristeen ;)
 
Hes stunning! Well done :D

I took my 4yo in hand showing twice this year and I too found it boring, and wont be going again
Looking forward to dressage and showjumping next year
 
Lovely fella and I agree. Used to show a coloured and a nightmare to scrub up and keep clean. Does'nt help that most coloured classes are later in the day as well!

Love to see pics of you jumping him :D
 
I'm so glad it's not just me. I seriously was losing the will to live, and we ducked out of the "pony the judge would most like to take home" class as I thought we might actually have had rigor mortis set in if we waited :D

The only other show I've been to is with my last horse, and we won "hairiest legs" - and as the local rag said, was it me or the horse who won ? Now that was my kind of class !
 
I never found it boring but always had completely crazy animals you had to hang on to like grim death all day and they wouldn't load or tie up lol

I am going to show my filly in hand to get her out and about next year. She has four long white socks as well as other white patches lol
 
Ah, that probably makes it more exciting then.. Shy is soooooooooo well behaved, all he does is say "good morning" to a few passers by. He just takes everything in his stride, and he's only just 5. I think if he played up, we would have gone home a LOT earlier though. :)
 
I tried one show with Izzy and we both were bored rigid so totally with you on that. Izzy just kept looking longingly at the jumping area!

Way too much washing of feather and too much waiting for everyone else to do something. We won't be going again. My YO would love to take izzy as she thinks he would do well but it ain't going to happen.

Jumping, cross country, trec and endurance is more our bag and much more fun.

Shy looks lovely though.
 
Well, I've only ever done 2 'showing' shows and both were a complete disaster! The first time I was about 12 and on a small pony who bucked me off within about 5 minutes of getting on. I don't think I even made it one lap of the collecting ring :o oh and I managed to fly off over a fence and into another ring so double embarassment as the class going on in there stopped and watched me scramble to my feet and hurredly duck under the fence and persue said pony :o :o

Anyway, back to the point, the other time I got a lift with instructor (with 2 of her kids ponies and one other livery on board). Everyone else's classes were between about 8am and midday but my classes were both in the afternoon (which I knew, but I though by afternoon they meant around midday and onwards). When the class two before mine in that ring didn't start until 1pm (WH classes) and they appeared to be jumping every clear twice (never seen that before in a showing class :confused: ) I knew it wasn't really going to happen so I withdrew. Was told rudely that I wouldn't get my money back (I didn't ask for it back, I was just letting the secretary know I wouldn't be there) and poor horsey was getting very bored and had broken every single piece of string on instructors lorry. I went home having achieved nothing except paying however much it was to have a wander round the showground.

So, you did much better than I ever have! :D :D
 
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There we go, we got a second and third, but there weren't many entries! ;)

But it just wasn't my thing really - so much waiting around, I found it all really deadly boring - am I allowed to say that ? :o Such hard work getting ready too. And then he had two poos, each of which called for emergency measures - urgh the hassle !

I was secretly looking forward to the jumping, but that was cancelled due to the ground....but that is definitely our thing ;)
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Shy's lovely! Well done both of you! x
 
He looks lovely in the pics, nice to have experienced it even if its the first and last time for you. There is alot of waiting around. I did a one and only show to date with my lovely Seren a few years back now. Its was miserable, did not stop raining all day but I was the proudest mum in the world even if the waiting was boring, I was beaming with her, she qualified for a place at a larger show, perhaps the Bath & Somerset show...cant remember exactly
 
Yes, far too boring! Mine isn't badly put together but has luckily developed a little swelling on one hock, so I use that as my excuse not to bother at all :D
 
I agree it is a bit boring, and all the cleaning!! Omg! With coloured hairies the amount of hours scrubbing is just insane, and then like you said one poo and all your hard work is undone. I'm starting to see the attraction to bay TB's, so much less to wash!

I've done a fair bit of inhand showing with my baby cob just to get him out and seeing things, luckily my mum will help with grooming, but I am so looking foward to the days when he's old enough to compete in something more interesting. He's gonna be a hairy XC machine ;) he's only a lightly backed 3yr old now so we have a while yet to be stuck standing around for inhand classes ;)
 
Omg how rude of me! Can't edit on phone, but I meant to say how handsome Shy looks!! He's gorgeous and does scrub up well.

Looking forward to imminent SJ pics then ;) I do love a jumping hairy.
 
That's the nature of showing - the agricultural shows are fun as there is plenty to see between classes.

You find some are better organised than other, you soon learn where to avoid, and to pack a picnic!

But if you don't fancy spending the whole day there then definitely go dressage or jumping.

I like showing - but then maybe I'm just dull! :D I also don't have the pain of a white horse - black is much more forgiving!
 
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