What do rosettes mean to you

[Muddywellies]

I love mine ! I've got quite a few, but each and every one represents blood sweat and tears (and a fair amount of cash too!). I would display mine in a cabinet at home and at the end of the year clear them and put them in a bin bag in the wardrobe. Now I'm not competing so much the ones in the cabinet have been there a couple of years, but when I walk past them, I'm reminded how proud I am of my non conventional dressage pony.

 

[millikins]

The ones I have are mainly my daughter's. I was ruthless when I moved house and just kept a box of the special ones. I always collect them, even if they aren't "keepers", someone went to the trouble of purchasing them and sorting out the numbers.

I visited a patient at home a few months back, there was a photo on the wall of her on a horse and a red rosette pinned to the frame. It was a Hickstead one so I asked what she'd got it for and she couldn't remember It was so sad.

 

[Spotherisk]

I have all of mine, they are all memories. First rosettes with Harley and Tinner, and even my riding holiday one from 1980, all super precious.

 

[scats]

I have bags full of the things in the loft from a very successful junior showjumping career. I even had a tall trophy cabinet up until not long ago, but they are now in a range of storage boxes and I sold the cabinet. I guess you move on. There were a lot of trophies- 50+
I used to win a lot in those days, pretty much every class we entered, so I never bothered writing on them or anything as it was just a regular thing (oh how wonderful it was to have such confidence!)

Rosettes I win now I tend to write on the back of and hang up on a small personalised rosette hanger I had made. Every so often I’ll move them into a storage box when I need more space.

 

[humblepie]

Scats - I did a lot of pony show jumping back in the day and used to get little trophies and cups - my mother used to write in tippex (or similar) on the base of them the pony's name and the year. If it was a perpetual trophy then you would often get a little keep trophy alongside it at the village shows. Hardly any of those shows going any longer.

 

[Orangehorse]

I have kept all mine, in a large box. As everyone says, the date, class and score on the reverse. I probably won't get any more now.

As for what will happen to them, I said to OH that they had better go in my coffin!

 

[Bob notacob]

Bob got a "special" today in dressage , I would bin it but he tried his heart out . I fouled up because my test sheet was out of date . 3 to 7 strides walking is now one length walking. It cost us dear!Arch enemy Troy won . So close but so far. Bob might never forgive me.