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Multi-Discipline (MD) Schooling Show and Combined Test

Welcome to Fairhaven Farm!  We are attempting to offer affordably priced, safe showing, to meet the needs of lower level riders/horses of all disciplines as well as dressage riders and eventers in the area.  In order to continue the shows, be safe and keep costs down, we need your help.  Please review and plan to follow the listed guidelines.

 

Show Guidelines 

*Please leave your non-horsy pets at home.

 

*Please do not bring visiting horses to the barn area.


*Juniors must wear ASTM approved Helmets when mounted.


*Please park single file on the designated areas so we don’t have to buy a bunch of parking gravel.   

*Please tie to your trailer and clean up before you leave.  

*Wash your horse before you come and rinse after you get home, or we will have a mud hole by the water troughs.  

*Parents please supervise your children to help prevent accidents.  

*Please be prepared to show current negative coggins at the entrance.

 Thanks!

Kimberly Wallace
Owner Operator
Fairhaven Farm

                                     

 

Deadline for entry is Wednesday at midnight, before show.  Late entries accepted, space permitting, for additional $20 Fee.  When in doubt, call!  

rhaven Farm

Multi-Discipline (MD) Schooling Show

and Combined Test  

JUNE 20th,  August 8,  August 29  

Shows start at 9am.  See website for assigned dressage ride times.

Ribbons awarded 1st-6th. Division Champions awarded digital camera with at least 6 riders.  Rider/horse combination must enter all the classes in the division to be eligible for division awards.

**  Dressage Tests are patterns set by the USDF and the USEA and ridden in a 20 x 40 meter dressage arena.  Dressage “only” tests  which are not part of a combined test may be ridden from memory or called. 

**Combined tests are a combination of a dressage ride and a jumping round per the rules stated by the United states Eventing association.  Except for Maiden and Ameoba, dressage tests must be ridden from memory.  scores are converted into penalty points and averaged together.  The rider with the lowest average  wins.  

**Jumping tests: Jumping tests will be conducted after each corresponding Combined test (2’3 will be after tadpole, 2’6 after beginner novice, etc).  Horses’ jumping “style  and form” are not judged.  Just time and penalties.  Refusals and rails are each 4 penalties .  Scoring standards:  Fastest clean round wins.  If no clean rounds, the fastest round with the fewest penalties wins.     

** Equitation classes are those where the riders’ position is judged, not the horses’ way of going.  Basic equitation is the same regardless of discipline, with only slight variations.  Ex: There should be a straight line from the riders’ ear, thru the shoulder, hip, to the heel.  There should be a straight line from the riders elbow to the horses’ mouth.  Horses with a higher head carriage will require a higher hand position to maintain a straight line than those with a lower head carriage.   

** Multi-discipline (MD) classes are open to riders of all disciplines (discipline evidenced by tack and show attire).  Unless class is qualified as an Equitation class, the Horse will be judged according to the standards of that discipline.     

**A green horse is one with limited experience(s) and/or limited time under saddle. The green horse classes evaluate the horses’ way of going and training, per the desired goals of the riders’ discipline. The riders’ position is not judged except where the rider’s position affects the horse’s performance or, a task is not executed. Over-all mental relaxation without being sluggish and accurate transitions without abruptness will be rewarded.  

Combined Tests and Show Jumping:  Dressage will be in the morning & jumping after lunch  

1.  Maiden:  Fairhaven Farm Walk Trot 1; Jumping Pattern with ground poles

2.  Jumping Pattern with ground poles only.

3.  Pre Amoeba: Intro Test A; Jumps not to exceed 18” cross rails

4.  Show Jumping 18”

5.  Amoeba: Intro Test B; Jumps not to exceed 2’

6.  Show Jumping 2’

7.  Tadpole: BN Test A; Jumps  not to exceed 2’3”

8.  Show Jumping 2’3”

9.  Beginner Novice: BN Test B; Jumps not to exceed 2’6

10.  Show Jumping 2’6”

11. Novice: Novice Test A; jumps not to exceed 2’11”

12.  Show Jumping 2’11”

13. Higher combined test available upon request.

14.  Higher show jumping available upon request.

Dressage only:  

15. Intro Test A

16.  Intro Test B

17. BN Test A

18. BN Test B

19. Novice Test A

20. Novice Test B

21 Training Test 1

22. Other Dressage tests available upon request.   

MD Halter Classes: (Horses shown in hand at walk and trot).

23.   Model horse (Riders line up in ring and state basic information about horses intended discipline, age and training.   Horses confirmation and movement Judged in hand, without tack standing still and then at a walk & trot.  

24.    Model Presentation (same as above except rider’s presentation techniques and grooming judged over confirmation and movement).  

“NJE” (call if you don’t know what this meansJ)

25. MD Beginner Equitation: Lead Line  

MD Beginner Equitation Lead Line (B.E.L.L): 

Trot-work may be sitting or posting. Diagonals not judged

26.             B.E.L.L. walk

27.             B.E.L.L. walk; trot one at a time.

28.             B.E.L.L. Group Walk & trot.   

MD Beginner Equitation Walk Division:

29.             Group Walk on the rail

30.             Group Walk.  Ride a pattern one at a time.  

MD Beginner Equitation Walk-Trot Division:

31.             Group Walk; trot one-at-a-time (Diagonals not Judged).

32.             Group Walk & trot.  (Diagonals not Judged)

33.             Group Walk & trot.  (Diagonals judged).  

MD Green Horse Under Saddle Classes (GH):

34.   GH Less than 2 yr. u/s: walk, trot one-@-a-time.

35.   GH Less than 2 yr. u/s: Walk, trot.

36.   GH Less than 2 yr. u/s:  Walk, trot, canter 1-@-a-time.

37.    GH Less than 2 yr. u/s:  Walk, trot, Canter. 

MD Open Under Saddle Classes:

38.   MD OPEN:  walk

39.   MD OPEN:  walk, trot one @-a-time.

40.   MD OPEN:  Walk, trot, canter one-@-a-time.

41.    MD OPEN: Walk, trot, canter.  

55. Non-Showing Horse Fee : $10.00

56. Facility Schooling Fee: ( after the show) :$15.00

Entry Form:

Riders name:________________________ Horses name:__________________________ 

Coach/insturctor's name if showing with a group:_______________________

Dressage classes:________________________________________________x $15 = ___

Ct division(s):______________________________________________________x $20 = ___

All other classes:________________________________________________x $10 = ___

Office Fee per horse rider combination:________________________x $10 = ___

Total due:________________________________________________________________= ___

 *****Mail to P.O. Box 131 Coosa Ga 30129  

Or, Register and Pay online at www.fairhavenfarm.info*****

 

Scoring and Judging Guidelines

**All classes are Multi-discipline (MD) and the riders/horses will be judged according to the standards of their discipline (discipline evidenced by tack and show attire).  

** Equitation classes are those where the riders’ position is judged, not the horses’ way of going.  Basic equitation is the same regardless of discipline, with only slight variations.  Ex: There should be a straight line from the riders’ ear, thru the shoulder, hip, to the heel.  There should be a straight line from the riders elbow to the horses’ mouth.  Horses with a higher head carriage will require a higher hand position to maintain a straight line than those with a lower head carriage.   

**A green horse is one with limited experience(s) and/or limited time under saddle. The green horse classes evaluate the horses’ way of going and training, per the desired goals of the riders’ discipline. The riders’ position is not the judged except where the rider’s position affects the horse’s performance or, a task is not executed. Over-all mental relaxation without being sluggish and accurate transitions without abruptness will be rewarded.  

**Jumping tests:   Jumping tests will be conducted after each corresponding Combined test (2’3 jumpers will be after tadpole, 2’6 after beginner novice, etc).  Refusals and rails are each 4 penalties each.  Scoring standards:  Fastest clean round wins.  If no clean rounds, the fastest round with the fewest penalties wins.   

**Combined tests are a combination of a dressage ride and a jumping round per the rules stated by the United States Eventing association.  Scores are converted into penalty points and averaged together.  The rider with the lowest average wins.   

Sc More stuff about Scoring:

Combined Tests:  The USEA recognizes the BN-Advanced levels.  Schooling shows are shows that have levels lower than BN and/or are not conducted using USEA licensed officials (and therefore are cheaper to run and enter!).  Combined Tests are where two phases of eventing are conducted instead of 3. Fairhaven Farm Schooling Combined Tests are conducted as closely as possible to the USEA rules in order to familiarize the competitor with  rules/regs for their future shows at the recognized level.

Phase 1 is Dressage.  Each division is assigned a test by the governing agency and all the competitors in the division execute the same test.  Movements are graded on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest possible score per task.  Total good points are added together and subtotaled.  Then, errors are subtracted (Use of voice, clicking, error of course: 1st error: -2pts, 2nd error -4pts, 3rd error elimination).  The new subtotal is then converted to a percentage by dividing this subtotal by the total possible points if the rider had gotten all 10’s!  Example:  110 total good points divided by a perfect score of 200 possible points = .55 multiplied by 100 to make it 55%.  In straight dressage you would stop here.  In Eventing, everything is based on penalties so the lowest score wins.  Therefore, dressage “good” percentages must be converted to “bad penalties”.  To do this you take the reciprocal of the good percentage.  A 55% is the same thing as 45 penalties.  In eventing, tests must be conducted from memory.  

Phase 2:  Show Jumping or XC (Show Jumping at this show)

Each rider of a division rides the same pattern, at the same height, trying to get closest to the ideal pace, set by the USEA or the show organizer. 

  First disobedience 4 penalties

   Second disobedience or other under rule  8 penalties

Third disobedience , Elimination

Fall of horse or competitor or both, Elimination.

Exceeding the time limit, Elimination

Exceeding the time allowed 1 penalty for each second or commenced fraction of a second.

Penalties for the disobediences accumulate, not just at the same obstacle, but throughout the entire round.

 Show organizers then average the dressage score with the jumping score to get the final combined score.  The fewest penalties, or lowest score wins.

Show Jumping Only: 

Each disobedience = 4 penalties.  Fastest clean round wins.  Don’t be tricked into thinking the most “speed demon” will win.  Often, the faster a horse goes, the less time a rider has to correct a mistake, a drift for example, and the horse runs out.  Some horses get flat in their form when they go charging around and pull rails either with their front legs or rear legs……….”Slower is often faster”!

 Group classes are run as in open shows and are more subjective.  The equitation classes are judged on the rider’s position alone.  The “under saddle” classes judge the horse alone, except where the rider makes such a grave mistake (posting on the wrong diagonal), it’s treated as if the horse didn’t execute the movement at all.

Dressage Only: 

Is judged as phase 1 of a CT (see above).  At recognized shows, only a snaffle bit is allowed unless specified in the rules.  Unlike eventing, tests are allowed to be “called” by another person and don’t have to be conducted from memory.

 

 

 

Show and Class Fees

(CT) Combined test  $20 ea

Dressage Classes $15 ea

Other classes $  10 ea

Office Fee (each horse/rider combination) $ 10

Late fee $ 20