[QUOTE=Darkwave;8376104]
Ive advocated for years for them to split the amateurs not by age, but by hours worked per week at a desk job (at a company NOT owned by your family).[/QUOTE]
I’m in! my job would love it, it would inspire me to work more probably!
[QUOTE=EAY;8375923]
This. One of the best lessons horse showing teaches kids is that life is often not fair. There’s always going to be someone out there who is richer/smarter/prettier/more talented or has a fancier pony. You just have to do the best you can for yourself and your equine partner.
But juniors can be paid, so the field there is probably even more uneven. Kids with a single horse compete against others who are catch riding all day long, who might not even be in regular school so that they can devote themselves to showing. In the pony divisions, you can have 17-year-old mini pros who show in the grand prix jumpers competing against 11-year-olds in jods and pigtails.
I have seen plenty of amateurs showing and winning in the performance hunter divisions, though I agree that people primarily use them as a warm-up.[/QUOTE]
Yup, no argument there. But they are on Thursday and Friday; often impossible for working people.
EAY, my point is not about fairness issues as far as competing against juniors on leased horses or catch rides. It’s that there is no weekend hunter division at the 3’6" which you could do on a leased horse. That’s all.
[QUOTE=right horse at the right time;8367803]
Thanks for clarifying and clearing up all the speculation. Must be a super great horse to become a barn favorite in a week. :)[/QUOTE]
Wow–anyone ever ride in a dealer’s barn? Sometimes it doesn’t even take a week. And if you know that a great horse is on the way, the welcome mat will be ready!
Do you not have anything better to worry about? Horses are starving, horses are being stolen and butchered, horses are being over-‘calmed’ (so ammys can be free to spin themselves up on the internet rather than spend time in the saddle learning to ride?) and over-trained. Pick another peeve.
Puh-leese. Going after the good guys is just so not very constructive use of your time.
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