Sheepgate EC UA SJ - Worth it?

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I'm looking for somewhere to take Poppy (the baby mare) this weekend and there's b*gger all on to be honest.
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Sheepgate EC (near Boston) has a 'Have a Go' show with some unaffil SJ indoors going up to about 3'.

It's a bit of a trek for me, hence the reason for never having been before - is it worth the trouble? What's the indoor and the warm-up like? Is it full of numpties.......?
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If I remember rightly the indoor is quite small. I've only been for dressage and it is lovely, the outdoors are gorgeous and the shop and cafe are good too. I just remember it being miles and miles away and to be honest that is why I have never gone back.
 
Indoor arena can be quite tight, managed the turns on mine (just about). Warm up is in a 20x 60 school, its normally pretty dead so not too much of an issue.In trailblazers last year the biggest class size was only 10, so pretty short day.
They've got a fairly varied range of fillers, not sure if they'll use them and they only have wooden poles.
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I went to one of the outdoor 'have a go shows' through the summer to take friends baby horse for its 1st outing she popped round the working hunter there which was well run and a nice simple course. The schools are lovely and very well kept ( although didnt go in the indoor) and the cafe does lovely food ( most important thing!)
Alternatively Arena uk have got an indoor XC on sunday classes start at 65 cm i think.
 
Alternative again is Trent Valley (Notts side of Newark) They also have indoor XC this Sunday. CR starts at 9.30am.

I will be there for our second ever show, say hi if you see me! (And smile sympathetically)
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Really useful information - thanks very much everyone.

Nina76 - I have been to TVEC (it's not that far down the road from me) but I find the collecting ring tends to get quite busy with kids on whizzy ponies, which do not help Poppy's state of mind!

m_g_h - thank you for that. Arena UK it is then! I'd completely missed that competition - and only 20 mins down the road - yay!
 
Good luck at Arena, we will need some more practice before I feel brave enough to go there.
Arena is popular with many of our yard, but we are still a bit novicey (?) at the moment, so we're just working on 2 local venues at the moment until she is confortable in those arena's....baby steps.
Whizzy kids don't seem to bother mine?? just random new things, I'm not expcting a clear round!
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