Everything But the Horse Rally (EBTH)
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EBTH RALLY 2017--REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
WHEN: February 19, 2017 from 8:30 am to about 12:30 pm
WHERE: Leatherdale Equine Center, St. Paul, MN
WHAT: Everything But The Horse (also called Horseless) Rally is an event at which you have a team and set up stalls with all the required equipment, just like at a mounted rally, but without your horse. Everything is in miniature size so it fits in the family van really well!
WHO SHOULD COME:
- New or unrated members & D's.
- C's are much needed & appreciated! You can be C advisor for a team, or help fulfill many other positions.
- Parents!! There are lots of volunteer roles you can help out with.
Cost: $20 per member
LUNCH: Lunch is not included in the entry fee. Please plan to bring your own lunch.
Ribbons will be awarded!
REQUIREMENTS:
- “Riders”: Club or Scramble Teams of 3 or 4
- “Stable Manager” 1 per team
- “Horses” 1 horse per rider (use Breyer or other models, stuffed animals, etc. Remember, they need to come clean enough for formal inspection).
- “Stalls” 1 fully equipped “shoebox” stall per horse
- PLUS
- 1 feed stall per team & 1 tack stall per team
- “Equipment” See the Horse Management Handbook on the USPC website for the Overnight Rally Required Equipment List.
- Be imaginative, bring all the required equipment in miniature, life size, or catalog cut out/photo/web image. Breyer equipment is allowed but homemade equipment is great!
THE COMPETITION:
- Each “Rider” will “ride” a Stadium Jumping course (on foot). (Review Show Jumping Rulebook.)
- P.S. Take good notes from D retreat as well as studying the rules from the Horse Management Rally Rulebook!!
- The Stable Manager will compete in the riding phases, including jog out, tack room inspection, turn-out inspections, and turn backs.
- SCRAMBLE TEAMS: Does your club not have enough members to put a team together?? You can sign up as a Scramble team member instead! We'll put together a team for you!
HOW TO REGISTER:
Download the forms HERE. Submit them to your DC along with your payment made out to Canterbury Pony Club.
FAQ's for Everything But the Horse Rally
Q: What is the expected attire?
- Please follow the guidelines in the horse management rule book starting on page 6.
- It is recommended that the attire worn for the EBTHR is what will be expected for the turnout inspection found on page 9 of the horse management rulebook.
- an exception will be made for anyone who does not own breeches, jodpurs, or riding tights please wear neat discipline appropriate pants or skirt (e.g. no jeans please)
- western boots will be accepted if anyone does not own tall boots or jodpur/paddock boots
- EVERY Pony Club member needs to wear a medical armband or medical bracelet
Q: Who needs to bring a helmet?
- Usually only the riding competitors need to bring a helmet, however, for this rally as an educational purpose EVERYONE (this includes the stable managers) need to bring a helmet so everyone may be checked for proper helmet fit and that the helmets meet the requirements
- Please refer to page 6 of the horse management rulebook for what is considered an acceptable helmet
Q: Which rulebooks are the competitors responsible to bring and be familiar with at this rally?
- Competitors need to bring a copy of the horse management rule book AND the show jumping rulebook
- The jumping course will be "based" on the normal (knockdown) competition
- However, there will only be one course
- Standards, and possibly very small cross rails, will be set up that will have red and white flags plus fence numbers
- Competitors will be judged by stopping at each set of jump standards and answering a question (questions will be based on rally rules and information from D retreat)
- If the questions is answered correctly it will be scored as clearing the fence
- If the question is answered incorrectly it will be considered a knockdown fault (see page 28 of the show jumping rulebook to see the table of penalties)
Q: Are the competitors creating stalls at the event or bringing them already made?
- The stalls AND tack room should be created in advance to the start of the EBTHR
- Are there any rules about size of the horse stall and tack room?
- Currently are no rules about the size
- Does the model horse that need to fit into the stall that the competitors are bringing?
- for this year the answer is no, the horse does not need to fit in the stall
- This allows the option of bringing a big stuffed horse to a really small model
Q: Does there need be a separate tack stall?
- There does need to be a tack stall, however, you can use pictures, models, whatever you think will work. If nothing else have a pictorial drawing of the tack room and how it would be set up.
Q: How do kits get arranged?
- Example, a competitor is using small pictures. Can those be attached to one poster board or do they need to be separate kits that are 'mobile'?
- Kits can be on a poster board (perhaps the poster board could be the blue print lay out to the tack stall), or, you can also create a kit on paper in a 3 ring binder.
Q: Can a stallion horse model be used or must they be mares and geldings?
- They should be mares or geldings as USPC does not allow stallions
Q: Will scoring work the same way it does in a real rally with teams of 3 no scores dropped and teams of 4 lowest score of the group being dropped?
- Yes, scoring will work the same as a rally with a horse in that the teams with 3 will not have dropped scores and teams of 4 will have a dropped score
Q: Does the stable manager (“SM”) compete and manage the stuff?
- It is not the intention that the SM manages all of the tack room stuff by themselves, but rather to start developing the understanding of the role of a SM. See the Horse Management Rulebook for a job description.
- Hopefully the SM can be responsible for bringing the tack room box, but the team helped to organize and set up the tack room as that is how it often is done at rallies with horses.
- Since this is meant to be an educational experience the SM will be competing in portions that normally would only be for those who are riding.
- These portions include competing with the team for the turnout inspection as well as doing the show jumping course.