I recently attended a schooling show. This show has the rings open for schooling the night before which is great for green horses…if you can get in
Trainers stake out the rings and run 45 minute lessons in them the entire day before the show. If you enter between their riders they ask you to leave the ring. If you ask if you can share they say no.
How do you deal? The trainers have not rented out these rings.
Apparently saying “oh I didn’t know you owned this ring” is rude as well as “oh gosh I’m sorry I thought we could share.”