Ok I've been looking at several premiums for show's this year and have noticed several shows have "stake" classes that have an increased fee from their regular class fee. I don't recall ever paying more than a regular class fee for a stake class in the past, unless it's a payback class,.. is this something new or am i just forgetting??
It is kind of a peeve for me to see this because WHY is a stake class anymore expensive?? when push comes to shove it's just another class. I could see if it was a PAYOUT class (like at nationals ect). In many ways it peeves me that they even make you PAY for a stake class. it's just a championship class and as such should theoretically be a class that you have to "qualify" for in a prelim class and the top X amount of horses (say top two from each category) go on to the championship class and should be free like in a halter championship. I CAN see it from another perspective in that it does draw in more money for the club(s) by offering the class to anyone to enter and it does offer people like me more classes to get my horse(s) into for experience..... so i can sort of relate to it there.... but WHY the increase in the stake class from any other class??
It is kind of a peeve for me to see this because WHY is a stake class anymore expensive?? when push comes to shove it's just another class. I could see if it was a PAYOUT class (like at nationals ect). In many ways it peeves me that they even make you PAY for a stake class. it's just a championship class and as such should theoretically be a class that you have to "qualify" for in a prelim class and the top X amount of horses (say top two from each category) go on to the championship class and should be free like in a halter championship. I CAN see it from another perspective in that it does draw in more money for the club(s) by offering the class to anyone to enter and it does offer people like me more classes to get my horse(s) into for experience..... so i can sort of relate to it there.... but WHY the increase in the stake class from any other class??