EVENTING HELP NEEDED

[lisaward]

can someone please help me if you wanted to see how good an event horse was when you look at his dressage what score would you count :
as good ??
or as bad ??

 

[Weezy]

Under 30 as V V good

Over 45 not great

But it depends on the level of comp.

 

[PaddyMonty]

Also depends on when it last competed. Dressage penalty scoring changed (I think in 2002, some please correct). Prior to this date the dressage penalties were 3/5ths of score not gained so 25 would be good where 30 would be average.

 

[Thistle]

We celebrate if the pony gets under 40!

 

[BBs]

20's (80%-71%) excellent
30's (70-61%)above average.
40's (60-51%) average, some good work shown, more to work on.
50's 50-41%) Below average, go practise!!

I would also consider looking at the whole section the horse was ridden in. As the judge could have been marking high or low consistently throughout.
I got a great score on a horse who would score early 40's but they gave me a 34 - the thing was the whole section was marked early 20s to late 30's dont think one was marked in the 40s!

 

[lisaward]

http://www.britisheventing.com/asp-net/Events/Results.aspx?HorseId=23107&section=000100010002

what are these like?

 

[PaddyMonty]

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http://www.britisheventing.com/asp-net/Events/Results.aspx?HorseId=23107&section=000100010002

what are these like?

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Poor. These are pre the change so definitely worse than average. ie below 60%

ETA...just checked the level running at and changed my mind. For intermediate at that time they are average.

 

[BBs]

Those scores are the old way as they are before 2002.
A good indicator is to find the section the horse ran and to see what the others were scoring.

 

[charlie76]

They are from an awful long time ago- mind you if look at one of our horses BE scores it would one or two would look naff- 1 elimination in the dressage(rider took whip in- duh!!) and 1 in the SJ as the horse over jumped, rider came off, as did the stirrups, rider took so long getting stirrup back on they exceeded the time allowed!!!

 

[dieseldog]

If it is a horse you are thinking of buying - I wouldn't worry about the scores as the horse must be ancient now as it hasn't done a dressage test in 12 years, not really relevant to what it can do today

 

[lisaward]

no it is the mum to a stallion i am looking at ,he is scoring mid 30's so i think from above posts that is not too bad

thanks guys

 

[Bossanova]

If itas for breeding I'd be far, far more interested in how bold it is xc and careful it is sj. Dressage is so dependant on training/riding so as long as it moves with some degree of balance and freedom, anything else on top is a bonus!!

 

[lisaward]

rushes off to look up stallions xc and sj results................

well one has lots of 4 and 8 sj, the other is mostly 4
xc they both have mostly 0 and not many time penalties

 

[Bossanova]

Which stallion is it??

 

[lisaward]

have PM'd you.
i bet people are fed up with my stallion posting that is why i didn't want to harp on about them.