ROR, Aintree and Qualifiers ... A little help please!

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I'm hoping to get qualified for ROR Champs at Aintree this year with my 6yo but I'm struggling to get my head round all the qualifications and what's required!
Can anyone shed any light?

I can see that you can and how to qualify for TARRA classes (limited venues on last years list) but I can't figure out what other classes I could enter or need to qualify for.
It would be a ruddy long way to go for an in hand and ridden class then home!
 
Unless things have changed massively there will be many classes that you can just enter without being qualified but there will also be the the Elite Showing Series Final, and the Championship Finals for The Jockey Club RoR Novice Show Series and the TARRA Ridden and In-Hand Series which you will have to qualify for beforehand.

They usually have classes for jumpers, flat horses, horses that have raced at Aintree, grey horses, veterans and many more both in hand and ridden.

It's a fabulous show and well worth the trip. I think all competitors get a rosette :)

Hope that helps
 
I think you're looking for these classes??
Sunday 28th – Elite Showing Series Final, Championship Finals for The RoR Jockey Club Novice Show Series, TARRA Ridden and In-Hand Finals, Veteran Championship and Tattersalls Special.

Saturday I believe is open to all and will include qualifiers for Sunday (or did last year).

This page lists all the different classes to qualify:
http://www.ror.org.uk/competitions-series/showing/

So the Elite Series:
All first placed horses at each qualifying show between 10th August 2015 and 10th August 2016 are eligible to compete in the RoR/Tattersalls Special Class at the RoR National Championship Show at Aintree on Sunday 28th August 2016, the top four and the highest placed Veteran going forward to the ELITE SERIES Final at Aintree on Sunday 28th August 2016.

The Challenge Class at Aintree is a qualifier for Windsor the following year so you just enter as normal for that. (If you were to win at Windsor that would qualify you for the Elite Series final at Aintree that year).

The Novice Class you need to qualify before Aintree as that's the final for that, the Novice final then qualifies you for the Elite Series Final.

Clear as mud?
 
Haha yes still clear as mud!
Thanks Wimbles, still waiting for this year's schedule in hope of more idea of classes for this year.. He didn't seem to fit in to any of the 'extra' classes.

LL, wasn't sure he was good enough for the elite classes.. Maybe the name put me off! The Novice class really threw me as it reads like if you qualify on first outing you can't then show again before the Championship. Seems really odd but perhaps I'm being thick... Not unheard of!

Good to know it's an experience worth doing, just have to figure out what to go for :)
 
The Novice class you can't have won before doing the qualifier but if you qualify then you can win others before the final. The elite series is all about qualifying to get to that series final - serious money to the winner of that and the competition is hot!
 
Thank you, that makes much more sense!
Have found a Novice qualifier in March which will be our first show so we'll certainly be eligible then.
Fingers crossed we don't disgrace ourselves!
 
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