For the arena
The live board
A screen at the arena that everyone can read from the rail. It replaces the printed draw taped to the wall and the whiteboard at the gate. Every score, scratch and drag updates on its own, so the gate crew can stay focused on the riders.
- The working order for the draw in the pen
- Who is in the pen and who is on deck
- Scores as they post, and drags as they happen
- Current leaders for every class in the draw
For riders
The show in your pocket
Riders scan a code at the arena and see their own day: no download, no account to set up beyond a text-message sign-in.
- Every horse you are showing, and each draw it is in
- How many runs until you go
- Your score, and the top score in each of your classes
- Results for the whole show, as they become official
For the crew in the pen
Reliable tools for running the show
The board is only as current as the people feeding it, so each of them gets a screen made for their job.
Scribe scoring
Live scoring in the scribe's hand. A score is entered once, beside the judge, and recorded as the real-time score for the announcer to call.
Announcer bench
The announcer sees who's in the pen and each score the moment it is in, ready to call. At multi-judge shows the composite is computed in real time, so the announcer can focus on the arena, not math at the bench.
Arena management
Drags, and walk-up entries when you take them, handled from the gate so the order on the screen matches the order in the pen.
Disciplines
Built for western performance classes.
Running today: reining at NRHA-approved shows, and stock horse reining and cow work.
Built to fit: reined cow horse, ranch versatility, ranch trail, ranch pleasure, ranch riding, western riding, freestyle and other classes scored one horse at a time. Run something else? Talk to us about your classes.
Built for real arenas
Works on arena Wi-Fi and on cellular.
Arenas are hard on networks, so the apps are built to hold their connections to each other and to recover on their own when a signal drops.
- Runs on the arena's own Wi-Fi, on cellular service, or a mix of both.
- Resilient connections between the apps: if the scribe's phone loses its signal, the score is held on the phone and sent the moment the connection returns. Nothing is retyped and nothing is lost.
- Used at real shows on show-ground Wi-Fi and rural cellular, where scoring kept going through dropped connections.
For the show office
Results without the retyping
The show office loads its draws and its official results. We keep the extra steps few, and what goes public is checked against the office's own paperwork first.
- Works alongside the show software you already use
- Late entries and scratches handled during the show
- Results by class, ready to publish when the show closes
For the association
Year-end points, kept current
Standings are calculated from the season's results under your association's rules, so members can see where they stand after every show.
- Your divisions, your qualifying shows, your eligibility rules
- Standings updated after each show
- A clear trail from every point back to a result
How a first show works
- 1
A live demo
The whole system running on a demo show, on your phone and a screen, in about twenty minutes.
- 2
Two weeks before
You send a class list and a past draw and results sheet, and we set up for your classes before anyone arrives.
- 3
The first show
It runs alongside your existing process, with us on site, so the office changes nothing it does.
- 4
After the show
A short readout of what riders used, what the office found, and what to change for the next one.
Works with what you have
Your show office stays in charge.
Entries, invoicing, fees, membership checks, the printed draw and the official results sheet all stay in the software your office already trusts. MyHorseShowBuddy adds the live layer on top of it.
The judge's card and the office's results sheet remain the official record. We take them, exactly as printed, to everyone who wants to see them.