Exhibitor help
Tips, and the things nobody tells you first time
Short, practical guidance on keeping a book a judge can follow, showing well, speaking about your project, and asking someone to buy it. Written for exhibitors, and useful to whoever is helping them.
What you will find here
Record keeping
Keeping the book as you go, so April is not a reconstruction job. What a judge is actually looking for, and the entries most often left blank.
Showing tips
Working with your animal in the weeks before, and holding it together in the ring on the day.
Public speaking
Interviews, presentations and answering a judge’s questions without freezing.
Inviting a buyer
Who to approach, how to ask, and what to say when you do. Selling an animal is a relationship built over months.
Thank-you letters
The buyer’s letter and the thank-you letter are graded separately. What a strong one usually covers — the words stay yours.
Show day
Check-in, weigh-in, paperwork and the things worth packing the night before.
Latest
Articles are being written now. If there is something you are stuck on, say so — that is usually where the next one comes from.
The words in your book stay yours
Everything here is guidance on how to think about a task — never a paragraph to copy. The project story, the reflection, the buyer’s letter and the thank-you letter are the parts a judge is grading, and they are the point of keeping the book. The app will not write them either.
Keep the book while the season is happening.
Start free for one animal. $9.99 a year for the whole barn.