Beard in the show ring - go or no?

[amb]

@pds

A beard like this an he could be riding a donkey in the hunters and still should get first place.
http://www.gono.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Crazy-Yet-Amazing-Beards-3.jpg

I dunno, way of going is crucial, and the ride looks like it could be a little squirrely.

[FAW]

I seen a beard or two in the hunter ring over my time. Like a paint horse with loud colors, it will be noticed but not marked down

[Chall]

(Off topic but the naked video is useful for seeing how the rider uses his back to absorb movement and how little he uses his legs. So much instruction is placed on rider leg position and his lower legs are relaxed and his toes down.)