Qualifying BD question...

[_jetset_]

I am getting myself very confused looking in the rule book so was wondering whether someone could help me...

If I qualified Grace for the Winter Regionals at Preliminary and then went and did some Novices (which would take me over the 49 points) would I be unable to attend the Winter Regionals at Novice?

Basically, she has 39 points I think at the moment so I have only been doing Prelim with her (plus she has taken a lot longer than first thought to work consistently). If I did manage to qualify her early on for the winters I would really like to start doing some novices with her but this would take me out of Prelim...

Can you see how I am going around in circles????

 

[BigRed]

You can always call BD, they are nice people.

I have a friend who has just qualified her horse for the Novice regionals with about 1 point to spare before she had to go into elementary (because she now has too many points to continue competing in novice).

 

[carthorse]

Yes you can but don't do elem and get 14 points or you will be out of the rider group

 

[_jetset_]

Ok, so say this is the scenario:

Qualified Prelim Regionals (Winter) in September 2009
Did some Novices and in October 2009 ended up on 50 points (just Nov)

Could I still go?

And a second question... if I then qualified for Novice Restricted, could I do both???

 

[dressagecrazy]

Yes as when you qualified you where within the Prelim points.

Are you not going to try for summers though?? Would be lovely to see you & Grace at the Summers.

 

[_jetset_]

No... not going to try and qualify for the summers anymore.

Just trying to think ahead!

 

[happihorse]

Ok, might be about to confuse things here but ...

I thought that you could not complete at two levels at the same championship in the restricted section of each level, but does prelim count in the same way?

I too have the same problem and want to try and qualify at Elem and Medium for the winters, so interesting to see what comes out of this post!

 

[Little_Mare]

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I thought that you could not complete at two levels at the same championship in the restricted section of each level, but does prelim count in the same way?

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Competing in prelim restricted and novice restricted are the exception to this rule (there's is no option to ride prelim open at a championship) and lots of people do this. Of course for novice with elementary (and upwards) the lower level must be ridden in the open section.

 

[_jetset_]

Thank you Little_Mare, that is where I was getting all muddled up!

I just have to qualify for the winters now... no easy fete with seconditis )