Veteran Horse Society Membership

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tigger01

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Am I missing something? We've just looked into joining the VHS and it's going to cost about £65. Seems very steep to me. Once you've added membership for my daughter, horse (plus overstamp of passport) and because the horse is on loan, the owner must join too. Blimey!!! And I dont find their website particularly easy to use either. Think it must be me or am I being a meany!!!
 
joeanne said:
Join the bhs instead.....£59 and you get £10 mil public liability too!
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Not much use if you want to do VHS showing qualifiers though ;)

I was a member a few years ago but let it lapse when my old mare was pts. I seem to remember it cost me £30 then. I'm re-joining for next season though cos my gelding is old enough to do veteran showing now, he's just done local level veterans classes this season but has done well so he's going VHS showing next year :)
 
I looked into it and it was stupidly expensive! I can't remember how much I tallied it up to to register owner, pony and rider. Then you have to pay again to get showing card to allow you to get the qualifiers for the reginal finals. Up here to do your Final class it's £20 per class. And then, once you get past the dodgy judges :rolleyes: and you manage to qualify for Olympia it would then costs about £500 to compete there. As much as my Shetland would love to go back to Olympia I can't justify spending that much money on the slim off chance that he qualifies.
 
The website is hopeless, and if you email the showing contact, the responses are most unhelpful, very blunt and quite off putting. I had two local qualifiers this year, and was prepared to enter both, register etc. I didn;t becuase a) I couldn;t make sense of the website and b) the showing secretary still managed not to answer my questions.

A friend is a judge and has assuerd me that you can qualify at local level without the membership, and the join before the regional.
 
Personal Membership both Senior and Junior £35.00 (this includes £5.00 joining fee)

£10 to register your horse and you must pay £5 for recorded deilvery to get your passport back.

£12 to register the horse.

A further £10 if you are the owner but someone else is competing your horse.

So it would cost me £52 to register my shetland to show in-hand, £62 if I found him a rider - who would then have to pay £35 to join as well bringing us up to £97 before show entries start.

So to me, pretty pointless.
 
Glad it isnt just me then!!! It is very confusing and means that it would cost £72 to register daughter, horse and owner & passport and registered post.

So do you think you can join if you qualify locally to go to the regionals? Not that we think we will, but it would be interesting to know.
 
Having just read a show schedule it states that ANYONE can enter a VHS qualifying class but ONLY MEMBERS can actually get the qualifying tickets for the Reginals no matter how low down the line they are placed.
 
I looked into this and thought it was way too expensive to start with and am glad I didn't bother - did a local pre-veteran class with a VHS qualifier but the VHS judge put a lame horse second. I don't think this is acceptable for a 16-20 ridden group. It's not sour grapes because I voluntarily left the ring before the line-up as my horse got way over-excited and thought he had joined the rodeo! I wasn't going to wait to find out what he would do when they all started cantering :eek:
 
Oh god, what a nightmare, can't wait for mine to join the "oldie society" means I can go to more shows as there will be a couple of classes to do instead of doing just 1, make it worthwhile. April next year I will become a member of VHS - sod the cost and rubbish web site, will get a clever friend to decipher it. :) :)
 
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