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Post by fanfarefan on Mar 14, 2012 13:28:01 GMT
that sounds like fun !!!!
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Post by andycap on Mar 21, 2012 9:13:23 GMT
agree about the welsh shows. wont take my d youngster to them. he very well behaved and the last thing i want is to put him in with people intentionally winding there animals up so they are bouncing round like loonies. would rather stand bottom of the line than ruin my youngster by blowing his mind.
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Post by armada on Mar 22, 2012 17:37:40 GMT
I think the Welsh shows are an experiene, we do quite a lot of them, and tbh, I really enjoy them - and we show part-breds.
I had one hunter pony mare who was apt to flip, but it was mostly manageable, but the D boys gave us a wide berth, a taste of their own whih I always found amusing.
I am quite happy to go into the hampionships, last week we went into a supreme, and I went in at a trot like the purebreds, and we went hell for leather round the ring, but when the stik touhed my mares hest, she walked without a murmur.
I suppose its a testament to her temperament, she is a kids ridden pony, and I kould have put a saddle on her and ridden her immediately we left the ring.
At Towerlands last year, I got so karried away, I found myself in the Stallion hampionship by mistake!
With regard to mis-behaving, I have only ever asked on horse to leave the ring, it went up time after time, and it was'nt messing, it was bordering on dangerous, so for everyones safety, it had to leave.
With youngstok, sometimes they are a bit exited by the environment, looking around and moving about in the line up, but as long as they stand before me and I am able to take a good look, then do their individual so I an see their movement, it is forgiveable.
And I for one am happy my ponies seem to know the differene between their inhand and ridden, although I am glad they put more effort into their in-hand lass trot-ups than they do in their ridden, its their only opportunity to show themselves, with the ridden strip, they do it almost under sufferene, but will go under saddle in their ridden show like stars, but as they are more used to youngsters riding them in the ring, and me doing the in-hand they just seem to seperate the two.
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Post by squeaksqueak on Mar 22, 2012 21:51:21 GMT
An experience is one way of describing it I suppose......I think its sad how the welsh are treated in hand .. most of them are run far too fast and completely pushed out of any natural rhythm - it seems more of a sprinting competition than a horse class  I only have little legs - maybe thats why we don't do that well (that and a lack of fake tan and big gold earrings  ) On the topic of bad manners - showing themselfves off with tail & head held high, snorting, etc is fine, some do that naturally (others do it as a result of having plastic bags shaken at them but thats a seperate topiuc) but bad manners & dangerous behaviour should be penalised - I have been put down in hand for my pony not behaving itself and I accepted that decision. If your animal won't stand still to be judged, then the judge cannot do their job and it should be put down, similarly, if the pony does not actually walk away then trot back (most of them seem to jog then trot) then I think that should be penalised as the judge cannot see if it moves straight in walk I'll shut up now. |
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Post by armada on Mar 22, 2012 22:16:51 GMT
In your first paragraph squeaksqueak, you say many are run too fast and out of rhythm, a few years ago, a sektion B youngstok was presented to me and was run very fast indeed down the long side after the trot and turn in its individual, totally out of rhythm, it was nise, and as I remember did win as was streets ahead of anything else forward and I'd seen what I needed to see before she did that, but I did say to the handler 'you ran it like a kob, and its not, but I know why you did it' (it was going to spook big time going towards the pine trees round the ring, and she knew it, so did I).
I went to the Danaway open day in 2010, they ran their kob mares, foals, youngstok and truly amazing stallions on lunge lines round the ring they had set up, and by god, they moved, every man-jak of them showed their aktion at its best, it was truly breath-taking, and although I dont show natives espeially the Welsh D, no way would I handle that running, I kant imagine how tied in they would have looked if they had'nt been run this way,it was'nt out of kilter, just free and majestik, personal preferene I suppose, but it sent the krowd wild, inkluding my 70 yr old mum who is'nt kob mad, but she was bowled over by quality that day.
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Post by greencoulghstud on Dec 6, 2012 18:24:51 GMT
this does my head in too! my horses all behave impecciably at shows.. including my reciently cut colt. Does my head in when a horse that wont even trot in a inhand place can come first!!
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Post by loa90 on Dec 6, 2012 19:02:42 GMT
Anyone seen the D stallions at Royal Welsh?
As stunning as they are dangerous!
Depends on the judge though; I've been beaten by naughty ponies but equally at Equifest mine was atrocious and pulled in 3rd out of over 20... Frankly I felt embarrassed because he was that bad in the ring.
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