Originally Posted by Playin With Fire

DB- Landmark in Midvale on Farrell road. A gentleman by the name of John makes bridles, saddles etc. There are heaps of nice bridels ready made or he can make them for you, his prices are really reasonable and it's good quality leather not like the Indian Leather a lot of them seem to be these days! I have a work bridle that I got from there and it was def value for money!! He has an array of conshows (sp) etc that you can choose from. Oh and the most perfectly weighted reins, nice and thick so they don't swing too much when doing pleasure classes.

PH- There are rider classes (I don't generally bother, too many other really good riders and I don't have lessons so don't want my riding to be critically examined at a show!!).
Height classes for your horse, which are purely based on your horses movement and carriage etc.
Weight classes (horses not humans thank god) light, medium and heavy weight. Flame is medium weight (would you believe). Again its judged on the horse (yay).
Pleasure class- very similar to pleasure hack in western. Flame went soooo fast but still managed to win (love that horse!!).

There are other classes but I can't think of them atm. Are you familiar with hacking at all? Like how you start off in a group riding around (like in western) and the judges select a group of horses out of these that they like. These horses then do a workout which can include trot (mostly rising) and canter circles and rein back.

It's not something I could do officially cos thats when it gets a little too serious to me but its fun at the simple level.