Horse Show Questions

[Tashaburrows]

Am just after some advice on the mystery world of pony shows.
I am looking at taking my daughter and her Shetland pony to some shows this summer and am not really sure where to start ? As far as I know he is not registered so am not sure if that affects what we can enter. She can walk trot and canter so wondered what sort of classes they could be entered into ? She is 6 if that helps ?
We are only after doing it for a bit of fun, her pony is a skewbald so I am wondering what colour jacket etc she would need to wear ?

Its like a whole new world 

Thanks

I have a coloured Shetland too, my niece did coloured classes and m&m classes on him as well as all the little best rider/tack and turn out classes. He is registered with SPSB and CHAPS so we did a mix of affiliated and unaffiliated we him. Thee are lots of classes you can do at local shows where it doesn't matter about that.

She is too big for him now and my son is only 1 so he is earning his keep doing inhand classes with us both- he does very well in the coloured classes, and some people get all irate at being beaten by a Shetland!

Tweed jacket for your daughter, plain hunter bridle for pony. Would she be on the lead rein?

I find facebook very helpful for finding local shows, search for local show pages and then the organisers add schedules on there.

Good luck.

We did a little fun show at our stables and she won a few classes on him and i heard a few people say a shetland pony winning - he is the best !

I wold like to think that she would be off the lead rein but then thought for her first show maybe a lead rein class so she can settle and so can he ?

we just want to have some fun a rosette would be a bonus !

Probably at 6 you'd start her off the lead rein because the first ridden classes can have children up to 12 so they will probably have too much ring craft for her.

That would mean you wearing a hat and suitable clothes to match her tweed jacket and blue (velvet if possible) hat. Try to buy or borrow a leather lead rein. Stick her in some yellow (ish) jods with jod clips or, ideally, elastic to keep them down. You'll ideally need to carry a show cane.

By the autumn she can probably progress to first ridden shows. In these she'll walk and trot as a group and they will do a change of rein. She'll then be expected to do an individual show with trot on both reins and canter on both reins. No extension in a first ridden show.

If you're not pure bred you can't do affiliated M&M classes but that won't matter at local shows and also you can consider doing coloured classes on him..

Have fun!