Katina, your dog is gorgeous, you are a brave soul (and hard working!) going to a show the day after a hunt! I'd be afraid I'd have to be up all night picking out burrs and twigs and lose some coat to it.
Do you put anything like oil or something on their coats before going into the field?
Black Angel, your dog is also gorgeous, but has a very different coat than Katinas parti colour. I don't blame you one bit for not taking a heavy coated black (and long!) into the field while still showing! I had a black bitch whose coat was very heavy and tended to be a bit on the wooly side. Just taking her for walks could be a real job afterward...
But as Katina said it depends on the coat, and every dog is different