What to wear to shows...

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... dd is taking her pony to a small local show a the weekend. She will be doing some jumping and showing - best foreign breed, best riding club pony and prettiest mare.

She'll get away with wearing a hacking jacket, won't she? Her black one doesn't fit-(this time last year she had no bust!!!)

Hacking jacket sounds fine to me. I always think they look smart

Hacking jacket, definatly. Black jackets are awful unless required (usually 'proper' showjumping if I recal correctly?) They are definatly not for showing.

Just being nosey - what foreign breed do you have? Sounds exotic!

Hacking jacket with shirt and tie would be the thing for local showing.

Pale Jods with jodphur boots and joddy clips the thing on a pony.

If you were doing affilited classes then dress depends on type of pony. DD has Welshies so wears tweed jacket, shirt and tie with pale yellow jods and brown jod boots.

If she was riding a show pony then blue jacket would be the thing and a more blingy tie and scrunchies/ribbons.

Never black jacket for childrens showing.

They stretch foreign breed to encompass most things at our local shows - she's an Arab. We think. Or possibly a PBA. But she looks like an Arab so she 'passes'!

Dd had a black jacket because she did some dressage last year. And she wore it for everything because I wasn't going to buy another one when she didn't even have her own pony!

You can do dressage up to Affiliated Medium (i think) in a tweed jacket. Much more wearable and don't show the dirt as much either

this website is good.. i refer to it a lot.

Though.. unless you are doing county shows or serious showing neat and tidy with a nice jacket, cream jods, polished boots is acceptable.

rehorses.com/other.html