What is your opinion of this website? It’s fairly new software I think.
Hated it when I tried to use it to enter shows. Made me miss a few shows - was too complicated and frustrating. Ok for looking up results but also not pleasant nor easy.
It’s been around for at least five years that I can remember. Maybe more.
I’ve never used it on the show management side. Been fine for me as a rider/owner though, never had an issue.
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I’m surprised 45 views and only 3 comments. I wasn’t aware that Fox Village managed entries. It is used to see entries and results. Are there other places to get results, and if so, where? Maybe people don’t follow dressage results anymore; but I do. I raised the question because that website is a mess. Won’t load and when it does takes a long time. Once you get on a page and want to go back a page, it hangs.
It’s definitely been around a lot longer than that. I believe that it was originally developed by Lloyd Landkamer who has been gone for 5 years now. It used to be used by a ton of shows, then got pretty lean in the first couple years after Lloyd died. It seems to be picking back up a bit.
I’ve never used it on the show management side, but it has worked reasonably well for me on a competitor side. I do wish that Global would utilize more of the search options on their own page that Fox Village has available on their site. I hated having to open up every single class to see the list of riders. On the Fox Village site they have the riders/horses listed in a couple of different ways, depending on your search preference.
I’ve not had a particular problem when viewing results/class lists/etc… with the site hanging, but admittedly I have not entered a show on their site in a couple of years.
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The reason you can use it to see entries and results is because it’s actually management software used to manage those entries. It’s not a scraper site that pulls those entries from somewhere else. Global uses it as their management software and uses Show+ for the live scoring.
Fox Village has been around at least 20 years and was developed by the folks who had Fox Ridge Farm in Washington state. It was originally a program for show entry management. I have not worked with it since they added direct entry. If you are having technical issues you can contact them. I know there are sometimes issues when they are updating programs and servers. Pete the developer use to post on COTH.
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Thanks, hoopoe, you beat me to it! 
Boy, those were the days, eh, Hoopoe? Those Fox Ridge shows in the late 90s were glorious. Some of my favorite horse show memories ever.
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Me, too, Danged_Arab! I miss them. 
Definitely not new. It’s been around a very long time. Definitely longer than the others like Equestrian Entries and Horse Show Office. I’ve never had a problem with it.
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I know it’s not new. I’ve used it forever. I’m saying that the layout is different than it used to be and it is a pita to use. Let me give you an example because if you guys are using it, then maybe you don’t encounter these issues.
I go to the main page. I ask for shows in Florida. It sometimes hangs or takes a long time to load. I finally get to the Florida show page. I find the show I’m interested in. I look at the list of riders competing. I select one rider that I am interested in and click on them. I get to the page with their stuff. Next want to look at other riders, so I hit the ‘back’ button. Then it hangs again and eventually I have to start all over again. So basically I want to look at who is showing, look one person’s scores, then another person’s scores, and so on.
That’s all you, because I’ve been using it all season and have no performance issues and find it very nice to navigate.
My big regret is that FR was gone before I returned to riding and showing. I was happy to sit in those booths and know I was part of something pretty special. The evolution of the scoring system was something to see.
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ToN your computer might be having an issue. I am having no issues with show searches and results navigations.
We hired a firm to overhaul our 20+ year old website and rolled it out right before COVID obliterated horse shows. As things are getting back to normal (sort of) this spring we’re finally seeing a lot of traffic coming back to the score site. I think what’s happening is the back end data queries they built are slower because they are more complicated than before - so yea we need to figure that out. The intent of the new site was for it to work better on mobile devices, as 80% of our traffic is on IOS, and a lot during shows. We did leave up the old scores site as an alternative.
I do think it’s funny when I see posts “oh they’ve been around for 5 years…” It will be 28 years this summer since my first shows at Fox Ridge where we started developing this thing. As far as Lloyd goes (MISS HIM!!) he was our most staunch supporter and constantly helped us improve on it. ~Pete
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Another misconception is WE are Equestrian Entries. We (FoxVillage) are not Eq Entries. We simply have a working agreement with them for our show managers to import the entries. Since FVD has always been a side project we didn’t really have the cycles to try and manage entries as well.
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Oy Pete 28 years, now I feel a bit too old
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