Eventing verify listing – what you’ll want to do earlier than you go competing

There’s lower than a month till we’ll be galloping out of the beginning field once more, so now’s the time to make these very important pre-season checks, with assist from our eventing verify listing.

1. Stud holes — sure, all of us hate them. In case your horse wears studs, be sure to bear in mind to get the holes put in at his final shoeing earlier than your first occasion. And take the time to search out your studs and clear and grease them if vital.

2. If you’re going affiliated, have you ever registered your horse and is your personal British Eventing membership updated? Equally, for worldwide rivals, is your FEI paperwork so as?

3. Test that your lorry or trailer is clear, in protected working order and that your insurance coverage and breakdown cowl are updated.

4. Have you ever changed or mended something you broke or misplaced on the finish of final season? It’s simple to place equipment away and promise you’ll purchase one “subsequent time I’m in a tack store” or that you simply’ll sew up that gap in your cross-country shirt on an extended winter night… after which neglect about it completely. Take just a few moments to undergo your equipment and guarantee nothing has fallen prey to moth holes or rot and provides all the pieces a mud off if vital.

5. Have you ever learn the 2024 rule guide?

6. Ensure your horse’s vaccinations are updated and adjust to the foundations below which you’re competing, whether or not unaffiliated, BE or FEI.

7. Have you ever put the poll dates of the occasions you wish to compete at in your diary, so that you’re not caught out having missed making that very important entry?

8. Test your plaiting equipment. It’s unlucky to exit to plait at 8pm after work the Friday night time earlier than your first occasion to discover a mouse has eaten all of the cotton…

9. Lastly on our eventing verify listing, be certain your horse insurance coverage covers you for the extent of competitors you’re aiming for, significantly in case you are transferring up a degree.

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H&H journal editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a real eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand expertise of competing as much as British Eventing intermediate and worldwide CCI2*-L degree, and has labored within the business on a high occasion yard. Pippa enjoys nothing greater than immersing herself within the sport on the highest degree, reporting from the five-stars and worldwide championships, together with the Olympics.