Trying to make my boss a decent show board before we leave for Thermal for scheduling that includes: horse, class it’s in (eq, jumpers, hunters), braided/no braids, etc. Would love some examples, GOOGLE was entirely no help no matter what key words I used.
Any input would be great! :D:D
You mean what to use or how to get the info on the board???
Every barn I see has the big white dry erase boards. Some are blank, some have a spread sheet like layout with lines and columns but don’t know if they buy them that way or put them on after purchase.
Somebody updates them daily, no way you can get everything on there for much longer then that. Typically they are arranged in groups by groom for easy reading on that big board.
We used a big dry erase board, with thin tape (like electrical tape) to make the horizontal and vertical lines. Just draw it out on paper and figure out what info you need. Horse, rider, division, lunging, tack, special notes, whatever you need. It’s easy to do, and easy to remove the tape and start over if you messed up. Get some dry erase board cleaner too. You get bonus points for printing neatly. Good luck, and I’m sure someone will have a picture.
Found this example by googling “horse show board.”
http://www.dandlfarmandhome.com/images/20th/HorseShowBoard.jpg
But the point is that you can put anything you want on it - it all depends on what your trainer commonly does. Ours was super simple because we never had more than 12 or so horses and lots of people did their own grooming, so people sort of knew what they were supposed to be doing anyway.
Here’s one obviously done with thin tape by hand.
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b3/ec/ae/b3ecaec508b458bb2ccb2693de25e801.jpg
The one barn I ride with that has any kind of premade white board (with thin black tape for the divisions) looks like this:
It’s pretty informal but it works for us - we can keep ~20 horses being ridden by a mix of pros and ammys sorted out this way.
My other barns just had a plain white board with no lines where we split things up by horse, but those barns had fewer high performance horses doing multiple divisions in multiple rings. And didn’t have grooms, so we didn’t need to be so formal.
Make sure to have a space for ring as well!
I think SmartPak has some pre-made already, both with blank spaces and just lines, as well as labeled columns.
We have a large white board- I then went and got black auto detailing (pinstriping) tape to make the lines we needed. Works great.
^the auto striping tape is far superior to the electrical.
Phoenix West will custom the dry erase board part of the section.
I’ve found that the ones made with the tape and written in dry erase don’t really end up looking that great and often times the headings get erased. Phoenix West will custom them in your colors or will do stained wood.
You can put whatever you’d like on the headings etc. Horse, Stall, Braiding, medication, rings and time (if there is jumper 1,2 or hunter 6 etc), Tack (figure 8, boots for eq etc)
A lot of the trainers I know have one for at home and one for the shows with different things on each one. Although if you show the circuits and live on the road, you might want shoeing dates (for example) on your show board, ditto with turnout etc.
https://www.smartpakequine.com/phoenix-west-stable-board-3314p
They aren’t cheap but aren’t too expensive either in the horse world budget frame of mind.
I guess I should have been more specific, of course I’m doing it on a large white board with either tape or permanent marker and a ruler. That’s the easy part.
What I needed help with is examples of what to write in each column in regards to what is considered relative for hunter/jumper shows. Some of the posted pictures are rather helpful. I don’t wish to order a board, would rather make my own.
thanks!
I think that’s what people are saying - at least that’s what i was trying to say - that what you want on your board depends on what would be helpful depending on how your trainer operates.
I’ve seen boards with slots for grooms name and meds and braiding. Those wouldn’t be helpful for us because we don’t have multiple grooms, my trainer does all the medicating herself, and we have a different system for communicating with our braider.
You need to decide what columns are important to you. We can’t tell you what those are.
art tape is how we did ours
Oh I usually get this job
We use a dry erase board that also has a corkboard
The dry erase portion goes like this
Murphy ring 7:30
Class #15 baby green. Raven, storm.
Walnut. 9:00
320. Training jumper. Rookie
Off to side at top braid list Then ride list. Lunge list
On the cork board I have. Separate sheet I created that tracks pro rides meds it also has table with mon thru sun so we can track all horses got worked ,clients who ship in own horses and when they arrived , this sheet is designed for trainers record where as the dry erase is designed for the riders and grooms
Our home board had a list of horses (on the left going down) and then the days of the week or the month (across the top) where you could mark turnout, riding, lunging, lesson etc. At the end of each horse’s line his last shoeing date was listed.
This made it really easy for the blacksmith to just look and see who was due that week and who was coming due the next.
For shows: dry erase updated each night
Horse’s names on the left going down and then across the top, (you can figure out which order is best for you) braiding (we would mark yes or no, mane, tail, fake tail etc, if there is a night derby sometimes the horses won’t get braided until mid day, so you’d want to note that), medicate (yes or no and sometimes what they were getting-most of our horses get equioxx only; but if they needed ulcerguard etc), rings (Classes for the next day), lunging (no or yes and a time), pro ride, owner ride (again it depends on your barn. If you have a lot getting pro rides by different people, it is most helpful for the grooms to know which person is riding to put the proper saddle on the horse.), you can add tack as well-boots for Eq, martingale etc.
Some barns assign certain horses to grooms, so you might want to put a column for a groom if your barn does this and group his/her horses together. It is helpful so that he/she doesn’t have 4 that all have 8am classes in different rings and all need lunging at 6am.
