Combined training - Infants

[VikkiJones23]

Hi all

I'm after some advice please...

I have just started doing some unaffiliated shows with my little girl who is 4. We have a combined training show this weekend. What should we be wearing as she we have just done some show jumping so far so she has her matching colours for that (hat silk, saddle pad, ears). She wears a blue jacket and white stock shirt underneath for show jumping with black jod boots and canary jods but for dressage I'm aware that she should be more formally dressed. So how does it work with combined training? Do we need to wear a stock or tie, a white saddle pad etc and just keep that on for the show jumping after the dressage? White jods or stick to canary? I know unaffiliated is less strict but I'd like to know what is expected if we were to progress in the future.

TIA x

 

[Double_choc_lab]

I would say at age 4 whatever she is comfortable in , especially as she's jumping. Unaffiliated we see everything from ratcatcher (tweeds) for both phases to full on white jods etc. My adult daughter who competes BD and combined training still wears beige breeches and blue jacket with stock. She just changes her boots from a high top for dressage to a more comfortable one for jumping. Keep it fun at that age you don't want to put them off. We change saddles so we have a white pad for dressage but a coloured one for jumping. No need to keep white for jumping.

 

[Leandy]

Any traditional competition wear in dark/muted colours with white/beige jodhpurs and white/muted tone saddle pad will be fine for both phases. For older ones/adults where you change tack between phases it would be fine to wear "dressage" wear for the dressage phase and change to more SJ style for that phase but for a 4 year old I really wouldn't bother. Canary jodhs will be fine for little one (but wouldn't recommend of an adult), a collar and tie is correct for a little one but an american collar is also correct for dressage as well as SJ, although less seen in dressage. I wouldn't expect a small child to wear a stock.