Alcohol and Horse Shows?

[Cactuskate]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Moesha:
[B]This is great this is just the kind of stuff I want to hear. I think that a lot of the Drunken parties mentioned on this BB, happened away from the horses in all fairness, at a bar or restaurant.

Cactuskate…The same, I do not think it is being a dinosaur, and do you think that people riding around drunk or buzzed is common? I would hope not? I mean I joke about wanting a shot of Whisky, Which I’ve never tasted!!! believe it or not before the A/O jumpers sometimes, but please there is enough to go wrong completely sober!!! More importantly I would never want to endanger my horse, who is my best friend!
Do you think it is more common than not for trainers/riders to ride after too much to drink??

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Moesha, I can’t speak for too much of today’s horse show world. But I can’t imagine it having changed too much for the better…

I remember one Ammy that showed with our barn back in the 80’s. She really needed two Gin and Tonics before her class. Heaven forbid her class went at 10:00am, didn’t matter, drink up. She was not the most agile rider, had a horse worth his weight. They were doing the 3’6" A/O’s and to watch this guy try to stay underneath “his mom” was priceless.

I would rather this not be the norm.

And I guess my thoughts about the parties, was that I hate to hear of it anywhere anymore. Too many problems with drinking to excess in society in general.

Enough from the fossil…

[AMom]

Moesha said:

“…but please there is enough to go wrong completely sober!!! More importantly I would never want to endanger my horse, who is my best friend!”

Same here! Although, with my horse I am less worried about me hurting him than I am that he’ll figure out pretty quick that I am not quite there with him and doing one of his duck and cover maneuvers!

We ususally have food and water in the tack room at shows, but, since my trainer isn’t really a drinker and I am the only rider she has who’s of age, there is rarely any alochol unless my husband comes to watch. I don’t have a problem with him having a couple of beers back at the barn since horse shows aren’t the MOST favorite thing he does.

That being said, there was one show last summer where another adult showed with us and he definitely drank before he rode and after he was done. By the time my classes were done, he was passed out in the tack room on a pile of coolers and there were beer and wine bottles mixed all over our display table etc.I was a little perturbed that people would get the wrong impression about us and spent a good amount of time cleaning up.

A glass of wine at an exhibitor party after I am done showing is a good thing, but I don’t go for the all day drinking between classes, etc. I wouldn’t want some sort of monitoring or rule from the AHSA about it though, because then maybe my husband wouldn’t come watch anymore!!

[Steve]

the morgan circut has great parties, but most of the trainers do get drunk(it was so funny last year), and there is alcohol there, and i am sure people under age could get it if they wanted to, it is in huge buckets! a lot of people get drunk at regionals because there are free shots, but it is harder for kids to get it because there are servers who come to the boxes!In i do not think that alcohol is that bad but i do not think that the trainers should be drinking too much before the classes are over!

Steve

[Dementia_13]

I think horseshows can be that time and place for imbibing provided one exhibits decorum and one isn’t lap-dancing for the judge while crooning the Spice Girls.

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I have to admit, that image did make me laugh out loud!