Wierdest competition prize?

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What's the wierdest thing you've ever won at a competition? There's one show that we compete at where the organisers are enormously genereous and give the class winners a goody bag of items with their logo on.
The bag is really useful of course, and the notebooks and pens, and the mugs go in the lorry. But a baseball cap with the name of the show and '1st prize' embroidered on it?
A tad embarrassing to wear...we've got one as a memento on our rosette display, but we actually won four classes between us at that show last year, so I'm at a loss to know what to do with the other three, seems a bit mean to throw them away!
What have you won that you don't quite know what to do with?
 
When winning BE event I once won a XXXXXXL body warmer (yes 6 x's!), with the name of the event a sponsers embriodered on the back. If it had been a medium it would have been fine, but when trying it on for comedy purposes it came below my knees, and you could have fitted atleast 5 of me in it! TBH if you have just won a BE event what are the chances you are going to be a XXXXXXL?????????? If you are I really pity the horse!
 
I did raise my eyebrows when placed at Firle BE, won some really nice jewellery, not quite sure what they gave the men who were placed?!

But doesn't come anywhere close to a certain Belgian event, which seems to have toned down in recent years, but between my mum and I we won an electric knife, a vacuum cleaner, and a reclining armchair during the 90s!!!
 
charlimouse said:
When winning BE event I once won a XXXXXXL body warmer (yes 6 x's!), with the name of the event a sponsers embriodered on the back. If it had been a medium it would have been fine, but when trying it on for comedy purposes it came below my knees, and you could have fitted atleast 5 of me in it! TBH if you have just won a BE event what are the chances you are going to be a XXXXXXL?????????? If you are I really pity the horse!
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TBF have seen some very unfit people at the lower levels :p:D

i've never won anything particualrly wierd actually...rugs and stuff mostly. so glad i have an average sized horse tho!
 
about the 1 and only time I've ever won was at Newbury last year in the ROR class.

I was absolutely thrilled to see one of the prizes was an ROR jacket so I filled out my coupon and sent it off the next day

Parcel came and they had run out of jackets so sent me a gilet in a LARGE! Must have been about a size 20! It was so depressing being a dedicated follower of fashion and total show off I was SO lookng fwd to wearing my GREEN ROR gilet whilst riding my ROR winner and strutting about the yard like lady muck, instead I put it on and it's about 5ft long and so wide I look like Frankenstine!!!! :(
 
Not weird as such but I do remember winning a bag of chaff - that would have been fine except it was a BE event and I had to lug it on my own over about 3 fields (in the peeing rain) back to the trailer park!
 
I think the most bizarre prize tally I have ever left a showground with, was coming back from a 3 day show (SJ) with a set of car cosmetics, set of bathroom fittings (loo roll holder, bog brush, mirror and mirror shelf) and a Kune Kune pig...:o
 
tigers_eye said:
I did raise my eyebrows when placed at Firle BE, won some really nice jewellery, not quite sure what they gave the men who were placed?!

But doesn't come anywhere close to a certain Belgian event, which seems to have toned down in recent years, but between my mum and I we won an electric knife, a vacuum cleaner, and a reclining armchair during the 90s!!!
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T_E there used to be a venue near here that gave away things like video recorders and TVs in the early 80's (some of the very old Northern SJ peeps may know where I mean) turns out they were all knock off from container lorries!!!!!
:D :D
 
I know Pony Clubs struggle for money, and we do appreciate them doing all that they do (;)) but a friend of mine once won a clock - the free promotional ones given out by drugs companies, and another won a 'lovely' mug with a picture of horse and the motto 'I love my pony' :rolleyes:
 
tigers_eye said:
I did raise my eyebrows when placed at Firle BE, won some really nice jewellery, not quite sure what they gave the men who were placed?!
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Good point, I once won a test at a show where the winners of each tests received their own prizes plus a prize for their trainer (!), the trainer's prize was a lovely, but very feminine, silk scarf! I guess they assumed all dressage trainers were female...and that all competitors were honest and did give the prizes to their trainers ;) ;) ;) (which I duly did, incidentally, although I was very tempted to keep it, it was so nice!)

LOL at the Belgian prizes - maybe it's an European thing to give out completely unrelated stuff? In Italy I have won a mobile phone and a mountain bike! (which can actually be quite insulting -- "ride a bike not a horse" ;) )
 
When my mum was eventing she won at an event which was sponsored by Bernard Mathews.. She won hundreds of vouchers for their turkey burgers! We weren't the richest back then and my mum was quite pleased as it was free food, it didn't take long before myself, my sister and my dad were sick to the back teeth of eating blimin turkey burgers!! I've never been able to eat a turkey burger since. Yuk! :)
 
I've won a massive bag of shavings for winning the ridden veteran at a show, which we had to lug across the lorry park and stuff into our car! Worst one was where I won both the SJ classes I had entered- 2 massive trug buckets, totally identical in fluorescent yellow. Showed me and my horse spooked and I was sitting with loose reins not really paying attention so nearly fell off...

m_m- we try SO hard with our PC prizes but it's tricky when adults compete too. Most kids are happy with horse treats and a feed bucket and leadrope in the corresponding colour to their rosette, but how many adults want that!?
 
Lolo said:
Most kids are happy with horse treats and a feed bucket and leadrope in the corresponding colour to their rosette, but how many adults want that!?
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Well I'd be very happy with that, personally :D

I thought of another weird one... Pony racing in the Derby de Loredo (race on a beach in Santander) many years ago, I won a floral ceramic urn. In the horse race, the prize was better...a leg of Spanish ham!

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Lolo said:
m_m- we try SO hard with our PC prizes but it's tricky when adults compete too. Most kids are happy with horse treats and a feed bucket and leadrope in the corresponding colour to their rosette, but how many adults want that!?
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Sorry, didn't mean to offend Lolo - my comment was genuinely tongue-in-cheek! :)

To be honest my friends and I compete for the fun of it and to get placed (with a prize) is a bonus.

Have to say - I'd be more than happy with the treats, feed bucket and lead rope :D
 
We went to a show which was sponsered by the local fire service, each competitor placed 1st to 3rd were given a fire alam !

We had a good day and came home with 6!
 
I've won 2 leather headcollars, a breastplate (too large) and a set of bandages, not to mention the 'not-so-lovely' bright orange baseball cap for coming 5th at a HT once. I have also won a grooming box and a bag of horse feed for being 'best groom' at a BE... as if grooms didn't have grooming boxes!!!
 
meardsall_millie said:
Sorry, didn't mean to offend Lolo - my comment was genuinely tongue-in-cheek! :)

To be honest my friends and I compete for the fun of it and to get placed (with a prize) is a bonus.

Have to say - I'd be more than happy with the treats, feed bucket and lead rope :D
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Nah- it wasn't from any offence taken! Just saying that finding prizes for people is SO difficult. Your PC prizes sound a bit iffy though- mum decided that as the ODE in question raised a vast sum each year, the least she could do was some decent prizes...
 
At my first ODE back after breaking my leg in 09, I was in the unning for a top 5 placing in the BE80 so stuck around for prizegiving as spotted the rather smart Trizone numnahs etc and a load of bags under the prizes table! Ended up 6th, very chuffed to be handed my rosette and a big bag of prizes! Turned out to be a packet of flour, and pot of yeast, a bread tin and a loaf of sliced bread! Bless. Hovis had sponsored the class very kindly, and it was to do with the wheat for the bread being grown on the farm that held the event.
Very nice to get any prizes at all of course but slightly surprised to find those items in the bag!
 
Some of these are hilarious!

The only one I can add was winning a decent championship, £100, humongous rosette (dinner plate sized), sash, and ...... a haynet... ?!
 
I won once at some riding club novice jumping championships a pocket diary, shame it was for that year and we were already at the end of September!! lol!!
 
I once won a wooden picture frame. Was really weird until I opened the little prize envelope that I also got with and found a 50% discount voucher for the show photographer. He donated the frames too! Was a really nice idea...never did buy a photo though and they're still sitting unused.

Not horsey but funny all the same. My sister is a snowboard racer, and was competiting in the local club championships. She is the only female snowboarder who competes so they throw her in with the guys.

This year she came second, and got a cheap little buff as a prize which seemed really small. Then we realised the guy in third got a pair of expensive snowboarding (padded) boxer shorts. At least they had the decency to switch it!
 
And ascott under wychwood 2 last year the prizes were loaves of bread...so was the water jump (not *really*)...the sponsor was hovis though so not inexplicable!
I did a schools SJ last year and won a school baseball cap from the hosting school! Why would I wear that??
 
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A talking Basil Brush, and when you squeeze its nose it goes 'HA HA HA! Boom Boom!'

... completely unrelated to the sponsor, the class, everything.:confused:
 
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