Birker2020
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Help.
I have plucked up courage at last and entered an affiliated dressage competition held at a local equestrian centre. I am unaffiliated but have been competing up to elementary level quite a bit and been placed on a few occassions at that level and also a lot at novice level. I understood I could enter a competition on a day ticket and my partner said he had one from a horsey publication that I could have. So today I entered Novice 22 online at a local riding club (which is the same test as I did unaffiliated three days ago). The affiliated competition is a week this Sunday.
I then went to my partners house tonight only to discover that he doesn't have a ticket for BD only for BSJA!!!!
So I have just been on British Dressage's website and it says (unless I have read it wrong) that you can basically enter a prelim competition as an unaffiliated person without getting a day ticket but if its a restricted or open competition you have to buy a ticket for a prelim class.
Does this mean that as it only made reference to prelim that you can only compete affiliated on a ticket at prelim level and I would be unable to compete at novice on a ticket (should I buy one). The class states on the schedule that it is open & restricted.
This is what it says on BD website:
Class tickets enable non-members to ride unregistered horses or members to ride unregistered horses in affiliated dressage competitions (One affiliated class per ticket). Includes entry form. Please note: riders and horses do not have to be members to compete in prelim open/non-qualifying sections but should they wish to compete in prelim restricted/qualifying sections the rider will need to be a member or compete on a class ticket. Please see rule 3 for further details.
Help - so confused. This is going to cost me £23.50 to do one class!!! I should never have taken my partners word that he had a ticket but its not his fault to be fair. I should have checked.
I have plucked up courage at last and entered an affiliated dressage competition held at a local equestrian centre. I am unaffiliated but have been competing up to elementary level quite a bit and been placed on a few occassions at that level and also a lot at novice level. I understood I could enter a competition on a day ticket and my partner said he had one from a horsey publication that I could have. So today I entered Novice 22 online at a local riding club (which is the same test as I did unaffiliated three days ago). The affiliated competition is a week this Sunday.
I then went to my partners house tonight only to discover that he doesn't have a ticket for BD only for BSJA!!!!
So I have just been on British Dressage's website and it says (unless I have read it wrong) that you can basically enter a prelim competition as an unaffiliated person without getting a day ticket but if its a restricted or open competition you have to buy a ticket for a prelim class.
Does this mean that as it only made reference to prelim that you can only compete affiliated on a ticket at prelim level and I would be unable to compete at novice on a ticket (should I buy one). The class states on the schedule that it is open & restricted.
This is what it says on BD website:
Class tickets enable non-members to ride unregistered horses or members to ride unregistered horses in affiliated dressage competitions (One affiliated class per ticket). Includes entry form. Please note: riders and horses do not have to be members to compete in prelim open/non-qualifying sections but should they wish to compete in prelim restricted/qualifying sections the rider will need to be a member or compete on a class ticket. Please see rule 3 for further details.
Help - so confused. This is going to cost me £23.50 to do one class!!! I should never have taken my partners word that he had a ticket but its not his fault to be fair. I should have checked.
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