Stewarding

YOU CAN DO IT!

Stewarding

Stewarding can be a challenging, rewarding, experience that can have a profound impact on a rider, team, horse, or a show season

The goal of this workshop is to prevent this from happening…….

Role of the Steward:

Safety! Riders, Coaches, Spectators, Horses

Fairness

Education: Coaches, Riders, Show Hosts

Not to run horse show, that’s the managers job!

Follow and interpret show rules to the best of your ability

What should you bring to the show

Clothes, lots of them! Its cold, no its really cold.

Somewhat comfortable chair

Current rulebook

A good, enthusiastic, can do attitude

-GO TEAM HORSESHOW!!!!

What to do:

When you book a date write it on your calendar

Week of show

-Check weather

-Call manager

-Call Judge

-For example:

-Jenn Eaton Steward Scotty Judging

What to do on show day:

Get there early

Be prepared

Go Bag

Ask for an extra program

What to do before the show starts:

Watch warm up: If a horse needs to add in a line, tell the warm up rider. If the rider

lacks the ability, get a new one

Pick a good location and be there all day if you can

Weight/height restrictions

Spurs or no spurs

What is the rule for spurs, which level of riders can not use spurs.

Coaches Meeting

Hi Everyone! My name is (Insert Name Here) and I am our steward today

Rule changes

Changes

Where are you sitting all day!!!

Through the day

Take notes, with details of who, what, why, and the time

Put times with the class list

Keep a program going

Be pleasant and personable, remember everybody has a different view point, its up to you to use yours

If you see something good say so Ask Scotty about pony situation from a few years ago, if you are still

awake

Thoughts

Interpret rules with fairness, decisively, often start by looking at it from the horse’s prospective and go from there. IEA is trusting you to provide your understanding and depth of knowledge to help run the show.

Remember to always be positive, even if the call goes against what the coach/rider wants.

Even if your having a really bad day (break-up, tax audit, ran out of hay, have to face the in-laws) leave those emotions in the car. People remember negative, more than they remember positive, so

let your attitude be one that is positive

Steward School

New this year

Why? Give stewards a more uniformed/standard approach to stewarding

Education is key

Promoting education while bringing measurable training to stewards that insures a foundation to correctly serve the community

Steward School

Seminars Regional seminars

Classroom and practical

Work shop with live judging

Guest lectures, practice quizzes, live scenarios

Steward School

Looking for host facilities

If you attend and pass, you will receive a certificate

Working towards a goal of requiring all stewards to be certified/current over the next five years.

Now….Are you ready to play who wants

to be a steward!

Who wants to be a steward?

The following scenarios are actual ones that have occurred in IEA, the names have been changed to protect the innocent (stupid.) Please do not allow members of your team, fellow coaches, friends to repeat these scenarios. Many of the situations are quite common, though some are a little unusual. Only you can prevent these from happening again.

Scenario 1.

In section 1A, Thumper has a stop with a mediocre rider. You can’t tell whether it’s the horse or the rider. You look ahead on your draw sheet and notice Thumper jumps all the way to class 4 B. Asked for a re-ride before the rider can circle back to the fence, what do you do and tell the coach?

A. No dice, we got a long day ahead of us and a short time to get it all done

B. Of course you can have a re-ride

C. No, your kid was really weak

D. Let me talk to the judge and lets leave the card open through 1B.

Scenario 1

The show is moving along, if you are still thinking about the scenario than you are taking to long.

Thumper is in 1B and stops again, with last years Medal Maclay winner: Now what

Scenario 2:

Your judge is leaving after judging all day is sub artic temperatures, when a coach stops the judge in the parking lot and proceeds to tell them how they didn’t like their pinning (their kids always win,) how the judge isn’t that good of a judge, and asks where they are judging next, so they can avoid those shows? A. Write it up in the steward report, have a talk with the coach

B. Realize that the coach was raised by wolves, and explain that what is appropriate and what is not

C. Tell the judge they did a horrible job, so whats the problem with some truth

D. Shrug your shoulders and run for the car, the Pats are playing

Scenario 3

A rider from another team is done showing for the day and decides to go wander around the host farm’s facility and finds a random horse in a paddock and hops on. The horse’s owner (who now hates IEA) comes out to find her AO horse being cantered around bareback in the pasture by a rider they don’t know and does not have permission to be riding the horse. What do you do? A. Have a “Welcome to IEA session with the owner about how great IEA is

B. Grab the coach of the rider and rider for a do’s and don’ts of horse shows

C. Write it up in the steward report

D. Have the famous Scotty, “what were you thinking,” speech tears may flow

E. B & C

Scenario 4

Its class 12 D, the last section, you are almost done for the day. As the class reverse’s you notice one rider has spurs on. A. It’s the last class, who is going to notice

B. Disqualify the kid

C. Rerun the class

D. Make the horse holder apologize for their error

Scenario 5

In class 7B, they reverse and at the canter, Seabusicuit takes off bucking and trying to outrun everything. The rider gets the horse to walk and the judge tells everyone to line up. You get asked for a re-ride, what do you do? A. NO!

B. Ask the judge if they looked past it.

C. Grant a re-ride.

D. Tel the coach its how they teach their students that is why this occurred

Scenario 6

You go to adjust the course down to 2’ for class 2 and 4 when you realize that the jump standards don’t go below 2’3’’. Awesome! What do you do? A. Cancel the class, everybody gets there money back because it is

going to be unsafe

B. Jump 2’3’’, what’s three inches

C. Make it a tall cross rail class, at least everybody will have guides to find the center of the fence

D. Ask your judge, or anybody else if they have a drill in their truck.

Scenario 7

Hoottie, a 4’ Bard Owl, flies into the indoor the day before a show and won’t leave. During warm up he flies around above the riders heads, none of the horses seem to mind. How do you handle this at the coaches meeting and more importantly for the rest of the day? A. Call the crocodile hunter’s son to see if he can catch him

B. Create an owl clause, making sure that the judge brings it up in conversation at the coaches meeting. Continue on with the show.

C. Cool an owl, what's next Bigfoot?

D. Hold the show until it goes to sleep and you can guarantee safety.

Scenario 8

It’s the Monday after stewarding a horse show, you are just about to send the paperwork in for the show when the manager from the show calls you to let you know that one of the parents of the other team called and told her that her horse cost the rider a first place ribbon. That the horse wasn’t appropriate. The manager asks what should she do? A. File a complaint

B. Put it in the stewards report

C. Tell the manager that it stinks that that occurred

D. Call the parent’s team coach for a conversation about what is appropriate behavior of the parents.

Scenario 9

You are asked by the ethics committee/coach of a rider to evaluate a rider at their 5 show of their second year in class three. The coach is going to file a petition for a third year on next years paper

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