My Resin Futurity prizes arrived today.
Truth be told, I'd almost forgotten that I'd entered this photo show. It was one of the last things I did before my post BreyerFest hobby burnout episode, and as a result, I only managed to upload a few halter pictures and a handful of performance entries.
In performance, Khemonahar Ali won the Middle Eastern/African Regalia class and the Other Performance Sectional Championship.
Then - somehow - he was named the Overall Reserve Performance Champion.
I can be pretty competitive and I definitely like winning, but this doesn't feel right to me. I don't know what the judging instructions were, and I haven't looked at all the entries, but I just can not imagine a scenario where a one class wonder is worthy of an overall title.
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That's... interesting! I've been at a small handful of shows where the judging philosophy was "ribbons blind." That is, if you got at least one first, you were in the running for divisional champ, and it didn't matter if someone else had three firsts in the same division. Your chances were considered equal. Same with the overall. If you were a divisional champ, it didn't matter if another horse was the winner of more classes or even the winner of more than one divisional champ. You had the same chance of getting the overall. I had it explained to me as being more "fair" to one class wonders. Which... huh. To my mind, the way to be more "fair" to one class wonders is to do like I believe you did for something at the Jennifer Show and give the award to the shower/barn, not the horse(s). I think it'd be neat to take it a step further and do a show with a limited class list (maybe 10-12 classes) and actually require that each horse only show in one performance class, then do champs by shower. Pick all the classes that are really well served by more "specialty" models, like Cutting and so on. Maybe straight up don't have pleasure classes?
ReplyDeleteI really didn't mind the Sectional Championship. Other Performance is often a lot of judging apples and oranges, and one class wonders rise to the top often enough as to be unremarkable. Overalls are a different matter. Unless the competition is very weak - and I don't think that's the case here - I just don't see giving it to a horse who only showed in one class. In this particular case, I am especially befuddled. His entry was good, but not over the top, amazingly good. It's all very weird and kind of unsatisfying.
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