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Being told in warm up, after you’ve started warming up, that you can either go RIGHT NOW, 10 minutes earlier than your ride time, or you have to go 15 minutes after your ride time because they need to fit in some BNR’s and their students who just showed up to the in gate out of order. maybe hire an assistant or don’t ride 8 horses in one show?
Corollary to the above, ring stewards letting BNR’w get away with hogging the warm up fences and jacking them up over the allowed height. Not only is it rude, it’s dangerous to the other competitors.
Basically all the things that made my blood boil at h/j shows, creeping into eventing.[/QUOTE]
YES! This!!
When I go to events alone these days, I find that I have to try to find someone to “Defend” me in the SJ warm up.
I go to the ring steward. Give my number, ask how many out, are you taking in numerical? Etc, etc.
I go warm up. I have to navigate around people who are “having a lesson” and are more focused on their trainer then watching where other people are in the ring, and get snippy with you that you don’t make way FOR THEM.
Go down to ring steward near your time. whoops! Now there are 8 people ahead of you because such and such BNR or trainer needed to have their people go or whatever.
It is beyond frustrating.
And I have actually mentioned in the event evaluations.