Dressage Charity conundrum

[AnnaPK]

Hello!!
Im running a super chill event only for people on my yard for charity! as a part of it im doing dressage! I have like 20 people signed up from intro - novice but no score sheets and im yet to find a judge for the date

How am I best to run this??
No final score just a friendly run through
Homemade test sheets and some one who has no idea what they are doing judging
Award 1st 2nd 3rd based on how the tests was ridden??

All advice is super helpful so let me know what you would do!!

Also where would you buy rosettes? Struggling to find ones that aren’t just dressage/ clear round centred as we are doing all disciplines!!

 

[Nicnac]

Order sheets from BD and look on their database for a trainee judge near you. Rosettes are easy to find with Google. Just get ones which say 1st to 10th for example depending on how many in each class. Will eat into charity donation though. Or just give out small bags of sweets/carrots/apples rather than rosettes.

 

[LEC]

Just ask your local friendly BHS trainer who gets a fair amount of business from the yard (most I know do it for travel money pretty much) and buy sheets from BD.

 

[DressageCob]

If you look on BD you can buy the score sheets. The website also has a list of judges who may be willing to come and help out. I've judged a few charity dressage days myself.

If you've taken entries, do people know you aren't giving final scores? I don't really know how it would work, just saying at the end who you thought was the best. I think it would be better to score each movement, do your final scores and place people in the usual way.

As for rosettes, I have bought them before from Etsy and from Rosettes Direct, as well as others. You can get them with your riding club/centre's name on them or with just a horse's head etc.

 

[kathantoinette]

Get in touch with your local competition venue and ask who they use for rosettes.
What is the reason for not doing scoring? As mentioned above, do the people who have entered know this? I would probably score as placing will be fairer based on the final scores.
And also find out who judges the local UA dressage at the local competition centre. Registered judges details are on the BD website. I think there’s a find a judge section.

 

[Sealine]

Order sheets from BD and look on their database for a trainee judge near you. Rosettes are easy to find with Google. Just get ones which say 1st to 10th for example depending on how many in each class. Will eat into charity donation though. Or just give out small bags of sweets/carrots/apples rather than rosettes.

I know of small yard dressage competitions that are run in this way. Be careful of using a local instructor as a judge if they teach some of the competitors and not others. It caused lots of accusations of bias and unhappy competitors at our yard

 

[little_critter]

BD find a judge (I find the site tricky to navigate)

British Dressage - Search judges

Be aware BD have just changed their tests. This may be a bit of a shock for those who don’t often do dressage.
Although I’ve just realised you can still order the score sheets for the old tests.

Shop

www.britishdressage.co.uk

 

[criso]

Even for a charity event I would expect there to be some sort of fair judging, just someone's opinion on how it's ridden could cause bad feeling about how it has been judged.

If it's for charity it might be worth asking on Facebook for a qualified judge who might do it for travel money but in that case buy them something plus something for the writers and scorers. Choice of alcohol or chocolate possibly.