showing - what is fair?

5horses2dogsandacat said:
Think the above is very true, you have my sympathy though, when doing a TARRA class the steam engine display started of right next door.. there were many people muttering about lack of respect espcially when its a ring full of ex racehorses!
Its just the way things go, you just look at what happened and perhaps it will give you ideas on what you can practise at home.

Good luck for this coming season, im cant wait to get the babies in the ring :) Maybe get them to Equifest if Im lucky enough!! :eek:
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I have some right moments too, Leics County the hunter ring was next to the fun fair, horse showed plenty of presence that day, did well I think, but then again most of the others had left the ring ! then on way back to lorry had a beach ball bounced at us, later on we returned to the ring for ID classes and met the White Helmet Motorcycle Display Team, no silencers, god bless the irish draught he was a saint that day. I had a nervous breakdown. He was less than a saint at a farmers club show, when doing dressage next door to the donkey showing he became transfixed by a donkey foal and when I got after him to pay attention he bucked me off on the centre line. Judge got out of the car and said she didn't know what to do because I was the first person ever to fall off whilst she was judging - I suggested if she fetched my horse out of the donkey ring I would finish the test.

I have a lovely picture of the same horse as a 3yr old in hand hunter at Three Counties, stood right up to his 18h, alert and poised - the reason - red arrows parachutes landing in main ring, he was actually knackered having been awake far longer than normal that day.

My current horse got loose in the lorry park at the Counties very recently, it was that headcollar to double bridle moment with 2 of us doing it and getting it messed up, he left at speed and parked himself in the lead rein pony collecting ring among all those nice ladies in long skirts and hats. My friend and I blamed one another for letting him go and briefly considered leaving him there to avoid the intense embarrasement involved in retrieving him. That taught us a lesson in being more careful in the lorry parks, when he was tacked up at the NEC we had a person on each leg and about four at each end!

The bigger shows are certainly great fun, good luck with your babies.
 
AdorableAlice said:
My current horse got loose in the lorry park at the Counties very recently, it was that headcollar to double bridle moment with 2 of us doing it and getting it messed up, he left at speed and parked himself in the lead rein pony collecting ring among all those nice ladies in long skirts and hats. My friend and I blamed one another for letting him go and briefly considered leaving him there to avoid the intense embarrasement involved in retrieving him.
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:D thank god it's not just me - I have to reload one of mine every time I want to swap tack
 
Sorry - it is totally fair. The judge can only judge on what they see on the day, and a ridden show horse should have impecable manners, so spooky reactions will get marked down.

It happens to everyone, so you are not being picked on. Try working on desentising him and hope that next time he doesn't react.
 
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