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Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Recycled Live is BACK!

Sometimes you just need to do the thing and yesterday I very much just did the thing! I booked the hall and I can officially say that Recycled Live is back for it's sixth show!

If you've never attended a Recycled Live before they are basically your usual model horse show but with a couple of twists. The first twist is that all the certificates, rosettes and other awards are 'recycled'. So you really won't know what you'll get! We have boxes and boxes of these so I very much knew I had to run the show again in order to use them up! This also means we can keep the entry fee really low as basically the only money we spend is the hall hire, BMECS qualification and some tea, coffee, sugar and bin bags (although in keeping with the show maybe we could avoid all plastic waste this year)!

It is also a British breeds only live show. Remember Lah Di Dah Live? Well this is what it is now! It still has the amazing British breeds only schedule with Performance and UK workmanship as well. This is a great show as it allows you to bring out horses you wouldn't normally bring out. No more trying to squish all your ponies into one British Native class, nope, instead you've got separate classes for all the breeds! No more trying to decide which Welsh to bring, nope, one class for each section! With sections for OF, CM, ARC and CTF you can also show all your horses.

If you want to attend spaces are limited, all the information you need is below but if you don't even want to read that and you're thinking YES PLEASE THIS SOUNDS AWESOME! Then click the link and buy your ticket :D

https://chestnutridge.co.uk/products/recycled-live-vi?search=top-products

Recycled Live V Supreme Champion

Basic Info

Date: 30^th November 2025

Location: The Pludds, Ruardean, GL17 9UQ

Doors Open: 8.00am

Start Time: 9.00am

Sections: Original Finish, Custom Finish, Artist Resin/China, CTF, Performance/Fun & UK Workmanship

Contact: competitions@chestnutridge.co.uk

We will be applying for BMECS qualification.

The Cost

Entry Fee: £10.00 + one raffle prize + one item of food/drink

The last two items are mandatory – turn up on the day without them and you will be told where the local shop is and sent on your way to get them!

Please purchase your tickets at: https://chestnutridge.co.uk/products/recycled-live-vi?search=top-products

Entry Terms

(1) Entry fees are 100% non-refundable under any circumstances – once you have paid you have made a commitment to attend the show

a. Excess entry fees will be donated to the chosen charity

(2) Failure to attend (either dropping out last minute, not turning up on the day etc) could result in your place being forfeited at future shows without a refund.

(3) No deposits or half tables are being offered at this show as the entry fee is quite low!

All entrants will get one full table, please make sure to keep your boxes under your table!

Now onto the more fun bit – please do not let the above put you off, sadly we had a lot of issues last year and we have had to be quite strict, this ensures that the show is full and that everyone who attends wants to be there.

Recycled Live IV Supreme Champion

The Schedule

Original Finish

Anglo-Arab
British Sport Horse/Warmblood
British Spotted Pony
Cleveland Bay
Clydesdale
Cobs
Connemara
Dales
Dartmoor
Eriskay, Kerry Bog & Lundy Pony
Exmoor
Fell
Hackney
Highland
Hunter/Hack
Irish Draught
Irish Sport Horse
New Forest
Riding & Show Pony
Shetland
Shire
Sport Pony & Hunter Pony
Suffolk Punch
Thoroughbred (Traditional)
Thoroughbred (Other Scale)
Welsh A
Welsh B
Welsh C
Welsh D
UK Donkey
Fantasy/Decorator (UK moulds only)
Other Partbred Horse
Other Partbred Pony
Youngstock/Foals

Original Finish Championship

Custom Finish

35. Anglo-Arab

36. British Sport Horse/Warmblood

37. British Spotted Pony

38. Cleveland Bay & Hackney

39. Clydesdale

40. Cobs

41. Connemara & Kerry Bog

42. Dales

43. Dartmoor & Lundy Pony

44. Exmoor

45. Highland & Eriskay

46. Hunter, Hack & Irish Sport Horse

47. Irish Draught

48. New Forest & Fell

49. Riding Pony & Horse

50. Shetland

51. Shire

52. Sport Pony, Show Pony & Hunter Pony

53. Suffolk Punch

54. Thoroughbred

55. Welsh A

56. Welsh B

57. Welsh C

58. Welsh D

59. UK Donkey

60. Fantasy/Decorator (UK moulds only)

61. Other Partbred Horse

62. Other Partbred Pony

63. Youngstock/Foals

Custom Finish Championship

CTF

64. Anglo-Arab

65. British Sport Horse/Warmblood

66. British Spotted Pony

67. Cleveland Bay

68. Clydesdale

69. Connemara

70. Dales

71. Dartmoor

72. Eriskay, Kerry Bog & Lundy Pony

73. Exmoor

74. Feathered Cobs

75. Fell

76. Hackney

77. Highland

78. Hunter/Hack

79. Irish Draught

80. Irish Sport Horse

81. New Forest

82. Non-Feathered Cobs

83. Riding & Show Pony

84. Shetland

85. Shire

86. Sport Pony & Hunter Pony

87. Suffolk Punch

88. Thoroughbred

89. Welsh A

90. Welsh B

91. Welsh C

92. Welsh D

93. UK Donkey

94. Fantasy/Decorator (UK moulds only)

95. Other Partbred Horse

96. Other Partbred Pony

97. Youngstock/Foals

CTF Championship

Artist Resin

To include Animal Artistry models

98. Anglo-Arab & Hackney
99. British Sport Horse & Warmblood
100. British Spotted Ponies
101. Cobs
102. English Ponies
103. Hunter & Hack
104. Irish Draught & Cleveland Bay
105. Irish Ponies
106. Scottish Ponies
107. Thoroughbred
108. UK Heavy Horse
109. Welsh
110. UK Donkey
111. Fantasy/Decorator (UK moulds only)
112. Other Partbred Horse
113. Other Partbred Pony
114. Youngstock/Foals

Artist Resin Championship

Performance & Fun

115. In Hand Showing

116. Ridden Horse & Pony

117. Show Jumping (British/Irish breeds only)

118. Cross Country & Working Hunter (British/Irish breeds only)

119. Racing

120. Hunting

121. Pony Club/Mounted Games/Gymkhana

122. Fancy Dress

123. Other British Performance

124. Scene

125. Recycled Horse

Create a horse out of things you’ve found lying around – maybe something sculpted from wood or a horse out of rubbish! Be creative!

126. Best Body

Bring along a body. It shall be judged. Maybe this should say worst body instead…

127. Model Horse Transformation

Please include reference of what the horse looked like prior to its transformation. Includes both customisation and repair jobs.

128. Vintage

Original and custom finished pieces produced before the year 2000.

129. Other Animal

Any British non-equine

Performance & Fun Championship

UK Workmanship

Custom painted models (including Artist Resins) by British Artists only – these models can be non-British breeds.

130. Bay
131. Black
132. Chestnut
133. Grey
134. Sabino
135. Bay Pinto
136. Black Pinto
137. Other Pinto
138. Leopard Spotted
139. Blanket Spotted
140. Other Spotted
141. Roan & Rabicano
142. Dun
143. Buckskin & Palomino
144. Non-Equine
145. Fantasy & Decorator
146. Medallion & Bust
147. Other Colour

UK Workmanship Championship

Recycled Live III Supreme Champion

Donations

This is a charity live so all donations will be greatly received. We are looking for:

Raffle Prize Donations
Rosettes/Trophies
Donation Sales Donations
Certificates
Food
Anything else you think you can donate

Raffle and Sales

There will be a raffle at lunch time – tickets will be priced at £1.00 per strip.

There will be space for sales at lunch

Rules and Entry

1. This is an open show and therefore anyone may enter.
2. 3 entries per entrant per in hand class
3. 2 entries per performance & workmanship class
4. Each horse can only enter one breed class.
5. Halters are allowed in breed classes but please no other tack or handlers
6. Riders/handlers are mandatory in all performance classes with the exception of scene where not appropriate.
7. No running, dogs or smoking is permissible in the hall.
8. Take care when placing or removing horses from the ring.
9. Do not touch or move any other model unless you have express permission to do so.
10. Poor sportsmanship will not be tolerated. You will be asked to leave with no refunding of entry fee.
11. The judge’s decision is final.
12. Any queries regarding the show or classes should be directed to the show holders.
13. Children under 13 years must be accompanied by an adult.
14. Please sit at your own table throughout the show, do not place models on the floor or move them to another showers table.
15. The organisers, their agents, nor the owner of the hall, will be held responsible for any theft, damage or personal injury.
16. Please bring a packed lunch – snacks and drinks will be provided
17. The show holder reserves the right to ask anyone to leave the show at any time without a refund of their entry fee. We WILL NOT tolerate poor sportsmanship, at all, ever.

Prizes & Sponsorship

There will be certificates to sixth place

There will be rosettes or trophies for champions

Overall champions will get rosettes and possibly something else

Sponsorship Costs

Class - £2.00
Section - £5.00
Championship - £4.00

Alternatively if you donate the rosettes/prizes for a section/class/championship I will allow you to place advertising

Sponsors get advertising in the show pack

Lah Di Dah Live II Supreme Champion (the precursor to Recycled Live)

Monday, 6 March 2023

The Easiest Way to Record Show Results

Hello everyone :D In October at Recycled Live V we tried a little experiment for show results and I wanted to write a little bit about it to share what we did and how it worked.

Anyone who has ever run a live show will know that one of the most tedious tasks after the show is writing up results. Several years ago I decided I would try and make things easier for me by using a laptop but because some showers completely refused to use it this actually made my job harder as I basically had to write up all of their results afterwards! It can take hours to type everything up and attempt to read handwriting and also understand what people are going on about and quite frankly post-Covid show host me is completely done with that.

So for Recycled Live V I decided to try and do something different. I wanted a simple and easy way that would mean show holders are responsible for their own show results and not me.

My solution was a pretty basic and simple one, a Google sheet.

So what did I do?

Well I typed up my usual results sheet into Google Sheets. I had my classes arranged by ring with space for 1st and 2nd place in the columns.

I then shared an editable link to the show group before the show and explained to people how I was going to do it. That meant everyone had access to it.

On the show day I had a laptop which was connected to a hotspot run off my phone which anyone could use.

After the show I simply picked a deadline and told people to ensure everything was correct by then.

People seemed to respond really well, nobody complained about having to do it and once everyone understood what they were doing it worked really well. Many people chose to write them up on the day on the laptop but some people chose to do them after the show and others used their own devices.

For me it saved so much time and stress. I just needed to ensure my own results were correct. When I submitted it to BMECS I closed it for editing and sent them a link, I also downloaded a copy and sent one of these across as well just in case something went wrong!

Above shows how the sheet was set up. You can see it is arranged by ring with the class number, name and section as well as space to write in 1st and 2nd place.

Were there any issues?

As with anything there were a few issues.

Firstly, I forgot to make the link editable at first, but that was a quick fix

Secondly, I had to refresh my hotspot occasionally which took time and was another thing to think about on the day. Obviously a hall with WiFi would be helpful here.

Thirdly, there were some issues with results being in the wrong place and needing to be moved. But once everyone had sorted this afterwards it was fine. It just meant people who thought they had done their results did need to double check them as there was some weird stuff floating around in odd columns and some went missing? (I suspect they were accidentally deleted but that's OK).

There were still some gaps but TBF there were not too many BMECS relevant ones!

Would I do it again?

Definitely! The only real limiting factor is phone reception/WiFi in the hall. Obviously if I don't have this I cannot do it and that can be a real issue for some halls. So it isn't suitable for everyone but it's definitely so much easier than me having to type everything up. Several people also liked that they could just do it in the evening and not on show day as it relieved stress at the show.

How do I start?

If you want to do it all you need to do is this:

1. Make sure you have a Google account (if you have Gmail then you have one)

2. Create your results sheet in Google Sheets

3. Share the editable link with your show entrants

4. On the day ensure you have a device (preferably a laptop) with access to the internet set up in a corner for people to type into

5. Set a deadline for results to be in

6. Remind people a week before the deadline to just double check nothing has changed

7. Lock for editing and then submit the link & downloaded copy to your qualification body

Anyone can do this, you just need a free Google account and access to the internet!

Sunday, 21 October 2018

Recycled Live III

Thank you to everyone who came yesterday and helped make it such a wonderful day. I really appreciate all the help from judges and those who stayed afterwards to help put away tables.

The show was for British & Irish breeds of model horse. It re-used certificates and rosettes from old shows which is why there is so much variety! But it is great fun and raised lots of money for a local Oxfordshire environmental charity.

If you are friends with me on Facebook you can see all the pictures here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156537916275155&type=1&l=57fb2ba513

But below are my selected highlights from the day :)

A lovely pinto Julip

Part of the raffle table - everyone was so very generous with the donations there were some really lovely prizes and we kept running out of space as people brought more and more stuff!