Ribbons

[Liz E.]

Can someone explain to me the place of ribbons. I know that 1st is Blue, 2nd is Red/Pink, and 3rd is Yellow. (Right?)

I have 2 questions:

1. Does the ribbon color differ from country to country? (Though I know Blue stays the same in most.)

2. I have this game that says 1st place is Blue and Yellow. And 2nd is Blue. Has anyone ever heard of this?

[Kylie Chamberlain]

I've never heard of blue/yellow for first

[Mrs I]

I think you'll find that the colours are down to the organizers/sponsers of the event and although this normally means red, blue etc they can choose the colours they want to use. It's often the case that blue is used as first and red as second, with a contrasting colour that represents the sponsers. Saying all that I could just be completely wrong.

[Gracie]

In Canada the ribbons are as follows:
Red:First
Blue: Second
White:Third
Yellow:Forth
Green:Fith
Pink:sixth
Purple:seventh
Brown:eighth
Champion:Red and blue
Reserve: Yellow and Blue!!
But it may vary!! But @ the shows I've been to thats normally what it is!

[Showjumper]

at all the shows I've been to, the rosettes have been the following colours:
*1st - red
*2nd - blue
*3rd - yellow
*4th - green
and the others change constantly (I got a revolting pink rosette as a 5th place in one class at a show, and my friend got a lush purple one for 5th place in a different class at the same show!)

[Liz E.]

These are the rankings for the US ribbons/rosettes according to my PC game:
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1st. blue
2nd. red
3rd. yellow
4th. white
5th. pink
6th. green
7th. purple
8th. brown
9th. gray
10th.light blue

Grand Champion - blue, red, yellow, white
Reserve Grand Champion- red, yellow, white, pink

Champion - blue, red, yellow
Reserve Champion- red, yellow, white
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between grand champions, champions, and reserve champions?

[Somethingroyal]

Reserve usually means second to the champin, and I think grand champion is the champion of the show, like with the most accumulated points. You have to check me on that though.

[Jess]

In AHSA in the US, the ribbons are as follows:

1st: blue
2nd: red
3rd: yellow
4th: white
5th: pink
6th: green

Champion: blue, red, yellow
Reserve: red, yellow, white

Grand Champion is usually something like the horse/rider combination that accumulates the most points during the show in similar divisions. (ie, junior hunter grand champion would probably ride in junior pleasure, children's hunter or junior hunter, and modified hunter)

Champion is the winner in each division who accumulated the most points in the division. (ie, Children's Hunter Champion probably placed first or second in each of three classes like u/s, o/f 1, 2 & 3)

Reserve Champion got the second most points in the division.

[lamprellsarah]

yeah the uk has 4 that go
1-red
2 -blue
3-yellow
4-green

i got fifth once and got a gross brown one, then once when i got sixth i got a lovely morron and pink one, very pretty, very unfair when someone lower gets a lovely coloured one

[Jess]

Weird... I never really thought about colors being different. We usually only have 1-6, but at the big shows, they have 7 and 8. Like I went to the Pennsylvania National Horse Show this year and they had I think purple for 7 and brown or gray for 8. I don't remember exactly. But I can't imagine having any other color except blue for first place!

[Emma_G_NZ]

We cant imagine having any colour different than red for first place! :)