I quite like it when you have music playing on lap of honour, Around here though it tends to be festivals and bigger things that are harder to qualify for that play music, my horse is good in situations like that so it wouldnt bother me.
Oh sorry hehe, well you couldnt really do it at our local show as it would upset all the horses as it is outdoors on a field. I think it would work indoors though??
They play lap of honour music over the tannoy at one series of local shows here in the forest just for the championship LOH. I've never seen a horse freak out whilst attending these shows... either in or out of the ring.
I spent hours compiling a couple of CD's specially for our local show. I could just see in my minds eye the children's riding pony winner doing a lap of honour to a really graceful piece, and hunters cantering in time to William Tell but it didn't work out quite like I planned.
For a start the CD player and speakers were in the Show Jumping Judge's box so music couldn't be played during classes and nobody bothered to put it on when the course was being altered and walked. It really needed someone in there dedicated to that particular job but we never have enough helpers at the best of times.
Some people say steer clear of Abba but it is easy on the ear and pretty upbeat - it grows on you, specially when I was stewarding for three days on the trot at Keysoe last year and it was played non-stop!!
This is HOYS lap-of-honour music - can't go wrong with that!
That's my Section A's name which we brought as a compain pony as a 10 mth old foal, without being handled a lot, and three days later took her to a local show, to do inhand M&M, and come home with a 1st and reserve champion