Show entries getting expensive

[dollylanedales]

Just looking at schedules, because quite a few have early closing dates. The class entry fees now are mainly a minimum of £7 per class at local riding clubs. One I have entered in June is £11 must be the qualifiers it has bumping the price up! If you add on your additional £1 for ambulance cover, and your fuel to get there, its no longer cheap!!

One of the HOYS qualifiers is £32!! Not that I need worry about that one LOL!!

The ways its going, it will be llike last year with cancelled shows due to the wet ground. One last week, and one this week have been cancelled, so we have not actually been to any yet.

The £2 per class we pay at the Dales show is an absolute bargain, isn't it? Pity about the mega fuel bill to get there, though!!!

[NFK Dumpling]

All I can say is that if you are entering several classes at £6 it's loadsamoney but from the other side of the fence, so to speak, you need an awful lot of £6's to breakeven unless you have good sponsorship..........

[leannwithconnie]

Mmmm I've just been having a look at our local show schedule for May and it's £8 on the day per class and £6 in advance ...I'm sure it wasn't that much last year.

[Debbie]

I wonder if its down to the insurance prices rising. Nothing seems cheap these days.

Oh well, just makes the outtings you have all that more important. Have fun when you go

[JoM]

Funnily enough, I was just bleating about the very same thing this morning!

I think the dales performance show is such good value - thats why I do the jumping - what I am normally pants at! Because at that price, you can afford to have a go! At local shows, I only do my set classes - never deviate as I cant afford to! Even clear round is £3/£4 now!

It makes it an expensive day out! Adding on the extortionate fuel prices, oh and Gordon Browns £440 tax per year for my 4x4!!!!!

[harleydales]

In Endurance we pay £8 for a pleasure ride, £15 for a 30km and upwards from there. Membership is £40 I think and to register a competitive horse is £10 so it all adds up. Plus the fuel....
Still, I enjoy it.

[dollylanedales]

Yes, I do enjoy it, too, and I appreciate the overheads etc. to put on a show, but if you do it say every week, the money can soon mount up, and we all know how expensive it is to keep horses, without any additional expense. So, I do tend to be more choosy about where we are going, and think of the distance in relation to the fuel we will use. Barnard Castle is the furthest we go.

[dalesponyrider]

At least the reasonable cost of the classes goes some way to offset the fuel cost at the Breed shows.

Showing is an expensive business nowadays.

[leannwithconnie]

Apr 19, 2008 14:09:34 GMT -1 Debbie said:

I wonder if its down to the insurance prices rising. Nothing seems cheap these days.

Yes you could have apoint there Debbie,,,I suppose the the insurance costs for such an event must be quite high and as you say insurancce premiums always go up not down.

[manorian]

Ponies (uk) this year is £29 per class for members and £32 non-members. Hoys classes are £45. Noone will be able to afford it before long.

[dollylanedales]

Goodness, thats nearly a set of shoes LOL!!

[tinkerdorisalison]

Yorkshire Show is £40 per class!, half that if you become a member at a cost of £44!!!!!

[mickey]

Wouldnt mind if there was some decent prize money to aim for....
Local jumping is £8 a class at one venue, £10 at another, clear round £3.50 and £8 respectively.
Endurance pleasure ride is £20 (non member)
Makes even going jumping at the localist venue at least £25- probably more due to food and that doesnt include my tax / insurance / wagon maintainance..

[DalesLady]

its the diesel which is the real killer though, but i do think organisations like PUK have hiked theirs up very quickly and beyond necessity