Veteran Showing Classes - Tack & Dress Code

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I am planning on taking my old TBxID ex eventer to a local indoor show at the weekend to take part in the veteran class. However, not 100% sure exactly what he should/shouldn't wear. He currently goes in a normal snaffle bridle with a grackle noseband (he will go in other nosebands if grackle's are not correct!) and I could ride him in a fairly straight cut GP saddle if thats more correct than his usual jumping saddle?

Can anyone tell me about breastplates/numnahs etc, really what to and not to wear? He will also have both mane and tail plaited.

Sorry for the rambling but hopefully someone can help this showing novice!!
 
What type is he? I think that you turn them out as per their type.

So riding horses would have coloured browbands, hunters plain etc etc
 
cavesson noseband, no breastplate, minimal numnah.

You usually turn out to type for veterans so it perhaps depend's how heavy is as to whether he is hunter/riding horse and therefore what you wear.
 
I did a veteran class a few months ago, my boy is a bay ISH, quite a petite little chap so I turned him out as a riding horse; velvet browband, plain noseband (no flash loops!), pelham with double reins (both plain, though curb rein was thinner), GP saddle with brown numnah, brown girth, sewn in plaits and pulled tail. I wore tweed jacket, shirt, tie (tie matched the browband), cream jods, black boots and a borrowed velvet hat. It was all done on a shoestring but looked really smart, and we won the class.
 
Don't stress about putting him double reins for the weekend if he has never wrn a pelham or double bridle before. Its a local show and your snaffle is perfectly acceptable. If you wanted to go out properly next year then school him to one over the winter.
 
EKW said:
Don't stress about putting him double reins for the weekend if he has never wrn a pelham or double bridle before. Its a local show and your snaffle is perfectly acceptable. If you wanted to go out properly next year then school him to one over the winter.
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Ooh yes - this - I got a lot of really useful advice on here at the time I was questioning what to do for my showing class - he was happy in the pelham and went nicely in it, but if he hadn't liked it, we would have stuck with a plain eggbutt snaffle.
 
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