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I just posted this in NL, but it should be here I think so i've moved it!!
Ok, so my mare has just gone on loan to a 13 year old girl who has competed in dressage but only RC and unaff on a small pony - so basically she is quite a novice, the plan is to downgrade my mare so the girl can get experience at lower levels but move back up the levels pretty quickly due to my horses experience.
BD have said that because the girl has never competed with BD before they will downgrade my horse to Novice Open (she will be left with 40 points).
Then, the other day i found out that someone who is an adult but has never competed BD and is pretty novice (so therefore on paper the same as the girl who has my horse) has bought a horse in holland that was competing there at a higher level than mine has competed here and brought it over. When you import a horse they downgrade it by assesment rather than a set number of points to take off, when this person went to her assesment the judges said that although the horse is very talented, she was obviously novice (same as my horse and her new rider) so you can start with no points and enter prelims??? Although I think th girl who has my horse is a better rider than the other (she is an adult and still novicey rather than just young and inexperienced) at this point in time they are similar so i asked BD if my horse can be assessed - there response was 'no, only imported horses can be assessed' To me this is just ridiculous.
The imported horse can do the prelim nationals and everything.
I have e-mailed BD saying:
I would be gratefull if you could please explain to me how a horse which is competing abroad at a higher level than my horse has ever competed can come over here and be entered into Prelim classes and have 0(!) points just because it has a new rider yet my horse has to compete Novice open (the most competitive class) with a 13 year old rider who is more novice than the one riding the more experienced horse in the lower class?
I'm so angry...................any of you wanting to buy a schoolmisstress/master for downgrading be sure to import it because if you ride like a numpty in your assessment you can do prelims on an advanced horse (which is what the one is question was competing).
Am I just getting wound up or is this ridiculous - need unbiased opinions!!!
Ok, so my mare has just gone on loan to a 13 year old girl who has competed in dressage but only RC and unaff on a small pony - so basically she is quite a novice, the plan is to downgrade my mare so the girl can get experience at lower levels but move back up the levels pretty quickly due to my horses experience.
BD have said that because the girl has never competed with BD before they will downgrade my horse to Novice Open (she will be left with 40 points).
Then, the other day i found out that someone who is an adult but has never competed BD and is pretty novice (so therefore on paper the same as the girl who has my horse) has bought a horse in holland that was competing there at a higher level than mine has competed here and brought it over. When you import a horse they downgrade it by assesment rather than a set number of points to take off, when this person went to her assesment the judges said that although the horse is very talented, she was obviously novice (same as my horse and her new rider) so you can start with no points and enter prelims??? Although I think th girl who has my horse is a better rider than the other (she is an adult and still novicey rather than just young and inexperienced) at this point in time they are similar so i asked BD if my horse can be assessed - there response was 'no, only imported horses can be assessed' To me this is just ridiculous.
The imported horse can do the prelim nationals and everything.
I have e-mailed BD saying:
I would be gratefull if you could please explain to me how a horse which is competing abroad at a higher level than my horse has ever competed can come over here and be entered into Prelim classes and have 0(!) points just because it has a new rider yet my horse has to compete Novice open (the most competitive class) with a 13 year old rider who is more novice than the one riding the more experienced horse in the lower class?
I'm so angry...................any of you wanting to buy a schoolmisstress/master for downgrading be sure to import it because if you ride like a numpty in your assessment you can do prelims on an advanced horse (which is what the one is question was competing).
Am I just getting wound up or is this ridiculous - need unbiased opinions!!!
