Yard dressage show - does this seem fair?

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We are running a fun show at the yard in a couple of weeks - dressage in the morning and showing in the afternoon (the show is only for liveries, it is not open to competitors from other yards etc) There is a wide range of ability and experience amongst the liveries, from absolute beginners to people out competing most weekends. For the dressage we are proposing 3 classes. 1. Open Walk and Trot test 2. Open Prelim test and 3. restricted walk and trot test.
Competitors in class 3 restricted should not have competed in dressage before and cannot enter classes 1 and 2. We put the restricted class last to prevent experienced riders using it as a warm up. The same lady is judging all 3 classes.
We are trying to keep everyone happy so do people think these classes and rules seem fair?
thanks.
 
Sounds good, but if walk and trot is just for beginners then why also run an open? Warm up can be done in the warm up arena, and those there for the experience can just enter hc? If you have people competing regularly then perhaps a restricted w&t, open prelim and open novice would be good? I would run them in that order as those wanting a warm up or just to give a green horse more practise can just be hc. Also nice to have more levels of dressage as those just starting out get to watch those competing at a higher level.
Yard show sounds ace, would love one at mine!!
 
Yep sounds good to me.

When one yard I was on did a dressage show, the liveries who competed affiliated didnt enter so although the ones who did were from novicey riders to those with a bit more experience, everyone hadnt competed dressage barely before.
 
Oh how exciting - have to agree with glosgirl, would get rid of the open W&T and put in an open novice instead.

Hope it all goes well and hope your liveries know how lucky they are! :D
 
Thanks for your replies. The restricted walk and trot we're running is really for people who have never done dressage or even much flatwork before rather than the sort of riders who are already out competing at walk and trot tests - they can do the open W&T. We're also letting little ones on the lead rein enter the restricted class. We are not a huge yard so if we put restrictions on the other classes we might not get many entries. And novice is probably a bit ambitious for 99% of us - maybe next year!
PS the show profits are going to the laminitis trust so we want lots of people to enter even if they would not normally do dressage.
 
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