Showing experts!!! you help is needed :)

[jodiew]

Right guys i need your help please, the old yard owner is doing a show this week and two of the classes are Best Turned Out and Wroking hunter. Now i am only taking local level, but does anyone know exactly what should be worn by horse and rider and done? also plaits or no plats?

Anymore help and info would be brilliant.

Thanks

Jodie

 

[jennyb]

Plait it and then brush it 'till it gleams.....!
Make sure the plaits are nice and neat, tail well brushed (with a plait if you can), clean legs and hooves, a chamois leather works really well to get a shiny coat, and so does baby oil on the muzzle and face.
And for the rider....cream jodpurs, shirt, hacking jacket, stock (or tie...whichever) hair net, gloves (not white - they'll get dirty too quickly!) and boots, (long or short), again, all shiny!
Make sure your tack is well presentable and had a good clean the night before, and best to take your numnah off, if you need to have it on then find a shaped one that doesn't stand out too much and is a complementary colour!
Before you go in if your horse has been eating give his mouth a quick wipe round to get off any gunge

Good Luck and happy showing!

 

[conniegirl]

Ok you wear

Tweed jacket, navy hat with flesh harness, shirt, tie, brown gloves, carry a brown cane, tie pin, cream or canary jods, long black boots on horses and short brown boots on a pony. Spurs or dummy spurs on a horse but never on a pony.

Horse/pony in question wears: plaited mane, pulled tail, no feathers at all, whiskers off. Plain bridle with flat plain caveson noseband and plain flat browband (preferably brown but black is acceptable). Preferably a pelham or double (and double reins) unless its a novice in which case a snaffle is appropriate.
saddle (preferably brown but black is ok and should be straight cut but if your not doing it seriously then what ever youve got), with either a leather girth or a girth that matches the colour of your horse.
lots of cleaning involved, shine everything and i would deffinately bath the horse if i was doing a BTO class.


Now that is the ideal for showing WH and for BTO you turnout to type so its the same. get as close to that as you can (dont go and spend a fortune if your not going to do more of it) and you'll be fine

 

[the watcher]

As everybody else has said. Effort counts for a lot, so be sure that everything is squeaky clean and polished, eve if your tack is old.

Plaited - yes, except in BTO if you are riding a registered native pony, in which case unplaited is correct.

 

[Mavis]

WD40 lightly applied to a sponge and wiped lightly over the coat makes a shiny horse gleam like a new pin!!!! And furniture polish is a cheap alternative to mane and tail conditioner.