If you fall into this category please contact the team below. Your request will then be verified by our team, prior to a printed copy being posted out in the new year. Alongside the Members' Handbook, there's an Approved Tack and Equipment Guide for British Dressage competitions to provide you with a pictorial guide for clarification on permitted tack and equipment:.
Home Competitions Competition rules. Points accumulated at each level will then count towards the horse or riders eligibility for future competitions. For more information on points and eligibility, visit page of the members' handbook:. Trot work may be ridden sitting or rising for all tests at Elementary level and below. At Advanced Medium level and above sitting trot is mandatory. For National Young Horses tests in 4, 5 and 6 year old classes trot work may be sitting or rising.
FEI tests, including Young Horse tests, require sitting trot. Except where specifically stated otherwise. Riders are to leave the arena after the final salute at walk on a long rein at an appropriate place. A test begins when the horse enters at A and finishes when it moves off from the final salute. Some sports leave you in awe of the human body and its extraordinary capabilities—diving, gymnastics, or the meter dash.
Then there's dressage, also known as "horse ballet. Dressage is possibly the worst Olympic sport, and is also arguably cruel. No event bums me out as much as competitive dressage. The International Olympic Committee describes it as "the essence of partnership as riders compete with highly trained horses, together becoming one.
Dressage is an artifact of medieval warfare when horses were ridden into battle, and today, is preserved primarily by the rich. Sometimes called "classical riding," this equestrian style is defined by horse and rider performing pre-choreographed moves that creepily evoke images of a child's dance recital. At the highest level, it's about using the power, elegance and impeccable training of the horse to execute complex movements as required by the test or choreographed to music.
While doing dressage can lead you into horse riding competitive tests, the horse you ride will also become more responsive to ride. No more leaning on your hands, no more need to kick and opening and shutting gates from the saddle is so much easier when your horse will react calmly to your leg.
Dressage was originally developed by the cavalry in the 17th century — after all, having an unresponsive or undisciplined horse on the battlefield could have meant the difference between life and death.
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