alexomahony
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*disclaimer - I'm not competitive, so please don't read this as though i'm a sore loser - i'm just curious to see if this is normal in dressage*
Does anyone else wonder where the judges head was at when you see dressage scores?
I'm by no means saying my test was world beating - it wasn't, my horse was quite tense throughout, made a fair few mistakes due to a lack of relaxation (couple of lovely, but unnecessary changes in the canter down the long side, a little behind leg due to being a bit spooky and slightly off center on first CL), and I scored 59% which I thought was a little harsh - our free walk was good, the trot work (I thought) was lovely, his second canter was nice and circles accurate and our final centre line was nice with a good square halt. I've felt in the past we've done worse tests and scored much higher!
I watched a couple of the tests after mine, and from what I saw, I expected them to score a lower % than me - one of the horses was being very evasive, avoiding the leg and trotting sideways at one point rather than moving into canter on the wrong leg, yet this combination got a much higher % than I did (everyone did)
I don't really do dressage - can it be similar to showing, where some judges just won't like a horses way of going etc?
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Does anyone else wonder where the judges head was at when you see dressage scores?
I'm by no means saying my test was world beating - it wasn't, my horse was quite tense throughout, made a fair few mistakes due to a lack of relaxation (couple of lovely, but unnecessary changes in the canter down the long side, a little behind leg due to being a bit spooky and slightly off center on first CL), and I scored 59% which I thought was a little harsh - our free walk was good, the trot work (I thought) was lovely, his second canter was nice and circles accurate and our final centre line was nice with a good square halt. I've felt in the past we've done worse tests and scored much higher!
I watched a couple of the tests after mine, and from what I saw, I expected them to score a lower % than me - one of the horses was being very evasive, avoiding the leg and trotting sideways at one point rather than moving into canter on the wrong leg, yet this combination got a much higher % than I did (everyone did)
I don't really do dressage - can it be similar to showing, where some judges just won't like a horses way of going etc?
Photo of said pony:
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