Hi Everyone,
Just a note to say that although I'm new to these forums, I'm not new in the horse show world and have alot of experience event planning. I feel like I'm reading through all the sales flyers between Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target when it comes to the local barns and their competitiveness. There was drama in the barns back in Michagan and thankfully we all have a choice whether to engage in the drama or not. Every good horse person knows that "Wherever your nose is, the rest of you will follow." I was just looking for some upcoming events and stumbled across the conflicting 3/3 (Saturday) date between FI & HP. I also have a show list from AMIT that shows 3/4 (Sunday) as the date for the HP show. Which is correct???
As a horse show enthusiast, first I was happy to see that I have plenty of choices, but then I was torn between which show I wanted to attend. I would think that with St. Mary's county being such a small horse community that all the major facilities could unite and coordinate their event plans. A good event planner doesn't overlap event dates more several reasons. But I guess not. Seems like FI has had their show dates posted for a long time. HP is offering a snow date of 3/10. Being experienced with event planning, when you can offer a make up date, it means that you already have flexibility. The respectful thing to do would be for HP to change their show date to 3/10 and give all the horse show enthusiats the opportunity to attend both shows.
Being new here, I'm hoping that all the local barns will team together and create some awsome events for those of us who depend on their facilities.
"A house divided against itself will not stand." Let's all keep the competition inside the arenas where it really counts.
Just a note to say that although I'm new to these forums, I'm not new in the horse show world and have alot of experience event planning. I feel like I'm reading through all the sales flyers between Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target when it comes to the local barns and their competitiveness. There was drama in the barns back in Michagan and thankfully we all have a choice whether to engage in the drama or not. Every good horse person knows that "Wherever your nose is, the rest of you will follow." I was just looking for some upcoming events and stumbled across the conflicting 3/3 (Saturday) date between FI & HP. I also have a show list from AMIT that shows 3/4 (Sunday) as the date for the HP show. Which is correct???
As a horse show enthusiast, first I was happy to see that I have plenty of choices, but then I was torn between which show I wanted to attend. I would think that with St. Mary's county being such a small horse community that all the major facilities could unite and coordinate their event plans. A good event planner doesn't overlap event dates more several reasons. But I guess not. Seems like FI has had their show dates posted for a long time. HP is offering a snow date of 3/10. Being experienced with event planning, when you can offer a make up date, it means that you already have flexibility. The respectful thing to do would be for HP to change their show date to 3/10 and give all the horse show enthusiats the opportunity to attend both shows.
Being new here, I'm hoping that all the local barns will team together and create some awsome events for those of us who depend on their facilities.
"A house divided against itself will not stand." Let's all keep the competition inside the arenas where it really counts.