Shocked.....BE registration...

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Sorry to open up a sore point which has probably been discussed and discussed but I am in shock at the re-registration prices......why is BE so much more expensive then BD and BSJA?? I know there is more disciplines at a BE event more space people etc BUT we pay through the nose at the actual event, almost £80 for a novice event now with start fee so why am I paying over £200 to bl**dy register as well!
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As Dexter has points it is £105 to re-register him
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And the £100 or £110 whatever it is to register me
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Should probably just suck it and shut up!! But needed to have a moan about it!
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Over £200 to register?!?!
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Why am I trying to get my horse braver at XC to event again? Think I will stick with BD and BSJA!
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Yep will cost me around £210 to re-register him!

And its easily £100 if not more per event wil diesel
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I will be making sure I go clear XC in the events I do for my qualifications as I def will not be adding anymore to my calendar!!
 
Yes me the same id still do it, but am still shocked how mush it is though!!

Going to have to wait till I get paid in Jan for that me thinks!
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Well Ive just noticed to re-reg my horse is now £4 more simply because he has ONE point!! What the hell?! WHY £4?! I know its not much but thats not the point. Its a blood fortune as it is.

Remind me, do I get a special rate to re-reg myself and horse? I think I did initially as Im an RC member but not sure about re-regs??
 
It does seem expensive at times. It's not just that Dexter has points but that he is intermediate. Just be glad that he's not advanced as it would have been £144 rather than £105. The registration fees haven't actually chaged this year - which BE have made quite a point of saying.
I have sometimes thought that the registration cost penalises the amateur rider & I have just done some quick sums. If all of the rider & horse registration fees were put into an additional entry fee this would be around £15. On my novice horse (£110 for me £75 for horse) the additional £15 would be cheaper if I did 12 or less events each year. For you H_J the 12 goes up to around 14. So how does someone like WFP fair ? Last year he started 170 events, so you would think that he would be fine. Not so - he had 25 horses with a lot of intermediate and advanced horses so his registration added around £16 per event. This is due to the fact that on average his horses ran less than 7 events each.
On balance I think that BE have probably got it about right. The loosers are probably the one horse owners who only do a few events each year. The winners are those with lots of horses all of whom run quite a lot of events each year - but remember the top riders with advanced horses don't run them that often.
H_J in a peverse way the answer is not to do less events but to do more and get your moneys worth ! (I know that this is just like the people who say that they have saved £XXX at the latest sale - you only save money if you were going to buy it anyway !!!)
 
it's absolutely ridiculous.
fwiw, in America, you pay once to register the horse for LIFE for all disciplines. that's it. it used to cost me $100. Just checked, it's now $200, i.e. £100, FOR LIFE FOR ALL DISCIPLINES, i.e. you pay once and that is it, you can do anything and everything on that horse for life, dressage, sj, eventing, reining, vaulting, whatever you like.
my own membership (Platinum, so i could have competed in every discipline) for a year used to be about $50 iirc, just checked, it is now $85 (£42). unreal, huh?
i didn't actually compete there, i had to have full membership and regs in order to compete in BE here (American citizen), so i don't know how expensive the entry fees were, but the registration and membership fees were unbelievably reasonable compared to those in the u.k.
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basically, for this year, i could register myself and my mare for $285 and that's her done for life, and me for a year, for everything. = £142. less than it will cost me to register us just for BE. crikey it makes me SO angry.
 
georgiegirl2, it's because there's just one big organisation over there, the United States Equestrian Federation. all the individual disciplines are under that one big umbrella organisation. i still think BE and BD leaving the BHS was a mistake tbh, there was a lot of power in having a huge all-in-one membership imho.
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anyway, there's still no excuse - if the horse's details are already on the computer, how the hell can it cost £70-£100+ to hit the "registration renewed" button in the office, and print off some stickers? *fumes*
 
I wrote my cheque out last night, my husband saw it and was horrified. He wanted to know what they gave me for that amount of money!
 
And to add insult to injury, I attended a show jumping show when I was in Florida. Someone told me they don't even pay to compete!! I'm unsure if this was due to the level they were at (minimum was 1.20) and the fact they charged spectators to get in. Either way, I guess the spectators funded it!
 
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And to add insult to injury, I attended a show jumping show when I was in Florida. Someone told me they don't even pay to compete!! I'm unsure if this was due to the level they were at (minimum was 1.20) and the fact they charged spectators to get in. Either way, I guess the spectators funded it!

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Mmmm. Who told you that? It is possible you were at one of the very few invitational events where some costs are covered but I can assure you showing in Ocala or West Palm is FAR from cheap. Not to mention drug testing fees, ambulance fees, organisational levies, nomination fees for jumpers, scary stabling and ring rental fees . . . And you want to talk travel expenses . . .
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(All expenses - including coaching and living expenses - for the WP would run $10k - $15k per MONTH.)

I understand some of the European countries are cheaper, especially for invited riders, but even then, I suspect there are hidden costs. For instance in Germany you have to take tests to show at certain levels and I doubt that's done for free!

Things are tough all over.
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If you want cheap, show in the AQHA. The have a HUGE membership paying in and all sorts of schemes and sponsors. That's the only circuit I've ever seen where you might even, on average, cover all your expenses if you win enough. But then you have to show QHs so in my opinion it's not a good trade.
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If you take a look at the North American bulletin boards you will see pretty much the same conversation at the start of every season.
 
Not sure about exact figures for 2008, but EI have restricted membership (can only do intro and PN) for about £50 rider and £25 horse.
I think BE should look at that.

Fiona
 
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