Judges letter in H & H

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How nice to read a letter from a judge saying how high the standard was at the BRC dressage to music champ and wondering why her class with 0 dressage points were not doing affiliated.
One reason I think is because in BSJA you can win money but there are classes so nearly anyone can carry on at lower level, In BE you can win intros and carry on [ Ithink] competing in them and if you have a go high up and get points you can still do OPN but with BD if you are acurate and reasonably good you quickly go through the points and have to go up the levels. If you compete every other week in 2 classes and get 65% in each thats 6 points x 25 =150 points in one year.The classes have very few entries and I think it is because of the points.When I used to compete [many years ago] you had 20 to 30 in a class and only got points for places, think it was 7 for 1st and 6 for 2nd and so on and you had to be quite good to get points .Now there is often only 5 in a class, Why! POINTS are awarded for even low marks!
 
i often find the standard very good at ridingclub shows as often the competitors only have the one horse take it completely seriously and dont think they are too good to need a lesson. and why bothe affiliating at that level trailblazers is just as much fun has some decent prizes and you dont have to remorgage the house to do it. i am only surprised that the juge concerned was surprised!
 
I think the main reasons a lot of RC competitors don't affiliate are a) Financial, & b) Many people competing at RC enjoy that level of competition, & simply don't want the pressure of affiliated competition. c) They don't want the points which would de-barr them from taking part in many unaffilated / club competitions. As Carthorse so rightly points out it is fairly easy to gather points at a relatively low level.
It does seem to be a source of amazement for those involved in the disciplines that many riding club members are more than happy not to 'progress' through affiliation, and get a sense of achievement, satisfaction & (most importantly)enjoyment from their club activities.
 
Agree with all comments but will you please stop saying it's easy to get BD points, I've been trying for the last 10+ years and am failing miserably.
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We Just hope they are putting up points allowed in line with BD!Zebedee?

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Never fear - BD changes to points levels will be in the 2008 BRC rulebook!!
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