Passed The First Hurdle-BSJA Assesment

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We took our four year old Colt by Renkum Englishman for a Assesment to go jumping and he passes with flying colours and would have probably passed the grading if we had been brave enough to put him through. Really chuffed with him as he was so well behaved, loose jumping they wacked the oxer far higher than he had been before and he just pinged it.
Sorry self indulgant but has been hanging over us for weeks. We hate gradings of any kind but for the sports horses we are trying to produce we have to keep putting our stock in there.
 
It is at the SHB(GB) gradings at Addington which were yesterday and today. The next one is in March next year. Keep checking the website for dates.
You do the same as the grading on the day but without the ridden part. Quite straightforward and nice and quiet.
 
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It is at the SHB(GB) gradings at Addington which were yesterday and today. The next one is in March next year. Keep checking the website for dates.
You do the same as the grading on the day but without the ridden part. Quite straightforward and nice and quiet.

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oh this is what i didnt understand !!!

Ive actually just called the SHB regarding my boy for next year so depending how he goes when i break him in March i may just take him to what you have done in October and then back to Grade in the March !!!
 
fab, well done. be as self indulgant as you like, it is so stressfull isn't it, working yourself up to it and hoping, not to mention putting in all that work for one day!!!!
 
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would have probably passed the grading if we had been brave enough to put him through.

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Well done on the BSJA approval -- Tim Price and Malcolm Pyrah are tough judges of potential showjumpers. Presumably your boy was too young to do it when you took him to BSPA and you decided not to go the CHAPS BSJA/sports horse route and that is why you took him there?

Sadly, and to be realistic, as far as SHBGB grading us concerned, I think you will have to check up on the height issue as they now have a policy of asking all stallions of 158 cm or less to go to SPSS instead as they take them up to 158 cm and have a pretty similar grading system.

HTH
 
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He's bay and 16.2hh think you've got the wrong horse in mind

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Oops yes, sorry obviously the wrong horse! You must have had it done on the second day then (when I wasn't there). The one on Wednesday was called Roccone Stan The Man (by Lostock Huntsman) and was a bay tobiano and 15.1 hh according to the announcer.

Just realised that you said in yoiur original post that your stallion is was by Renkum Englishman so it is obviously English Ashorne. Duhhh!!!
 
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