My trainers have given us the go ahead to host a show as long as they don't have to do any planning. We're an Eventing barn, so it will be a jumper show (crossrails up to 3', with a high bar and maybe two gamblers choice classes).

We have a fairly large arena a little longer than a full court dressage arena and probably twice as wide. We just painted uhh 10ish sets of 4 poles, plus we have 4 planks and 4 "natural" brown poles.

would love course building suggestions 👀 ideally something that works in multiple ways (so it can be made into different courses without moving many things)!

For the jumps, add some decoration like flowers so each jump looks unique and distinguished. This helps riders when memorizing the course, especially riders new to showing! My last jump show was Halloween themed and knowing I needed to go from the green jump, to pumpkin, to blue flowers, etc. was extremely helpful!

Not sure if this helps at all too, but for the dressage portion make sure you have room for the horse to walk in front of the judges box prior to starting their test. This way the horses can approach something that may be scary. If they can see and approach it before starting, they are less likely to spook at it during the test.

No dressage, just jumping. I was using a dressage court to help explain thr size of our larger arena

Look up equitation courses! You can make them turn into hunter courses easily, then switch a few things around so that they're a good jumper course as well.

If you have a triple in the jumper course, it'll be easier to convert into a high bar also ;)

You can go and search former hunter courses from old shows that are maybe hosted online, so you can get ideas and maybe more infos about distances.

Usually courses should have a good balance between vertical jumps and ox-fences with more or less difficulties in distances and lines between the jumps.

If you´d google for the terms "jumping course design" or "springparcours vorlagen" you should get tons of ideas in all difficulties.

For hunter courses, have two outside lines maybe 5 or so strides with one for each lead both heading away or home, a diagonal line maybe 6 sides(longer than outside line) heading the opposite direction of the outside lines, a diagonal single oxer for the opposite lead than the diagonal line, a quarter line single vertical, one or two diagonal single verticals for opposite leads. You would turn this into two or three courses. Start with a single vertical, outside line, diagonal line, outside line, single oxer. Single vertical, outside line, single oxer, outside line, diagonal line. All hunter courses should be eight fences, finishing at the gate end of the arena. If you need more help, please pm me! I'm happy to help, and draw up courses for you :)

Just jumpers, no hunters :)

My favorite part of jumper courses are the combinations. Throw in a good amount of one and two strides to make it exciting. You could also look up FEI courses and I'm sure that some of them will be fine or easy to change into something easier.

I could also help you do jumper courses, my barn has held a couple shows and i've been to about a million shows :)