Anyone going to Windsor Horse Show?

[LadyOfWaffle]

Either competing or spectating?

Every year I say I'll go (to watch!) but I've never actually made it yet. May is a very busy month for us. One day though....

At least I know I'll manage Hickstead, though it's not a patch on Windsor obv, as it's only half an hour drive for me. I'm already making a list of all the horsey things I want to buy!

It's on for 4 days I think - my mum always get free tickets via her work The price goes up every year! It does seem more a Joules fest than about Horses in recent years mind. I have yet to go to Hickstead

Hickstead is expensive too but our local 'Friday-ad' usually prints tickets where you just pay £5 per car so a group of us go for a quid each. The year before last was when we'd had those weeks and weeks of rain and the car park was a mud-bath but they were letting people in four-wheel drives through a gap in the hedge. My BIL had driven us in his tank of a 4X4 and he had the biggest grin on his face as we zoomed along with mud spraying up the windows. My Renault would have sunk without trace .

I quite enjoy Hickstead but I must admit I tend to lurk around the back rings for some more interesting classes as I get bored of watching jumping after a while (unless it's Olympia, that's different somehow). I much prefer a show with more variety. We try to get to Heathfield Show for that reason.

This weekend is the Brighton Horse Driving Trials and I'd have liked to have gone on Saturday to watch the marathon but my dad sort of expects me to be at his wedding .

lol, 'spose you'd better go to the Wedding I haven't been to Olympia in years! I think it's harder to go to a place like that with young children - at least outdoors their noise seems quieter! I am looking forward to 2012 and all the equestrianism , though I am not sure where they will hold it.

I've ridden at Windsor but not for years and not since the location change. Have enjoyed it although the last time we went it was incredibly wet and they seem underprepared for it.

South Suffolk (Royal International qualifer) for us this weekend and then looking forward to shows like East Anglian Native and East of England.

Love Hickstead as we've always done well there but harder to qualify for there with the Sec As.

I hate the new location! I was going to take my pony the year it was cancelled due to foot a mouth [typical]

Butkin, there is a lady at our field who has some section As, they are lovely movers and jump like stags, especially on catching sight of a vet or farrier . If I've got my welsh right they are from a stud called Cwm Nant Gwyn, have you heard of it? They are pretty little things and the lady is hoping to show the younger two in-hand this summer.

Might be all one word: Cwmnantgwyn?

Sorry Pixel it isn't listed with the Welsh Pony and Cob Society. Cwm Nant Gwyn is a place in Carmathenshire so could be just a small breeder who lives there and uses it as a prefix.

Our ponies are Randan and Garthfach prefixes.

Ok, thanks, maybe I remembered the spelling wrong from the notice that was on the feedroom door at Christmas saying 'merry Christmas from Cwmnantgwyn(?) welsh ponies'. I assumed it was a stud but maybe it was just the name of the farm that the lady had before she moved down here to be a 'southerner'. I think the ponies were really her husbands hobby.

They are still super-cute though, proper little fiesty welshies .