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Hi,

Has anybody had their horse assesed!!!!!!!!!!

We have a 17hh Westphalian that we have owned for 2 years,
We have recently started to do dressage and have been doing brilliantly. My daughter has won at unaffialited prelim and novice.

We have done a few BD tests prelim as neither the rider or horse have needed to be registered. Recently we have registered my daughter and now need to do the horse!!!

We have no import papers for him but have his passport which shows he was vacinated in Germany 3 weeks before we got him. For BSJA we just had to check with the show jumping society of Germany, Holland and Belguim to show he had no winnings. We dont think he has ever done dressage to any level as he was extreemly green when we got him.

As we have no proof of dressage points BD rule book says he would need to be assessed as to what level he would go in at.

Has anybody has this done? What does it involve??

We are new to the whole affialiated dressage thing and help would be appreciated

thanks
 
Would be really interestd to know how to do this. I have a Westphalian who was a show jumper in Germany upto last year and as far as I am aware has never done dressage at any level. Am hoping to affiliate him in new year but have advised that I will need to get him assessed.
 
I had my horse assessed and he too was Westphalian, by Floristan. I contacted BD and had an assessor come out and they grade accordingly. If you can prove what age he came into the country it may be better as the older they are the more points they gain, hence sometimes if the horse is still novice at an older age assessment is better if you feel your horse is still at Novice level, otherwise you can downgrade, but that has its penalties... although cheaper... David Hunt assesses in our area I believe, ie. Herts, he comes out to Bayford to do lessons every 2 weeks. may be an opportunity... charge is £70 roughly I believe, you will have to contact BD for form etc...
 
My friend had her mare assessed a couple of months ago and I went along for moral support. Her mare was imported as an 8 year old so she was looking at about 350pts without the assessment.

Was a fairly straight forward process. When you register your horse BD send you a form which you can complete and take with you to the assessment. It's basically a list of movements which the assessor decides if your horse can do or not and you score points accordingly. You ride your horse but if they think your deliberately riding badly for a low mark they might ask for somebody else to ride to figure out how advanced the horse is.

My friend's horse got 0 points so was worth getting the assessment.

My own horse was imported as a 5 year old (he's 8 now) so when I registered him he was automatically given 35 points. I didn't bother with the assessment because it still leaves me plenty of points in novice especially as I think BD are upping the limit by 50 points in December.
 
i have just aff my 7yo dutch warmblood and have been awarded 210 points and must only compete in medium and no lower. I emailed them as he was imported as a 4yo and thats when his vacc was done and info added in his passport and they have said if I fax/post them that proof/info then he will be reassed and so wont need the ridden assesment, an imported 4yo =0 points. I suggest you email the horse department and ask the same.
 
i imported a 6yr old mare and i got the kwpn to write me an email saying that she had no sports results as she had never competed and that was enough, so maybe worth asking them if that is still ok? i did it about 2 years ago i think.
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Our chap was imported as a 5 year old so we had 35 points slapped on us. We were going to have him assessed but our trainer didn't see the point as we weren't going to stay at prelim forever, as you know you don't pick up points at prelim so we qualified him first before going out at novice.

But, that was our choice of route. Agree with above, it's about £70 for the assessement, would probably be the easiest route.
 
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