Looking for pattern - Musical Ride, Quadrille, Drill Team etc

[Corky]

Call it what you like, but I was thinking of doing a team ride before Christmas and videoing it with some of my students.

I’d like to keep it simple and fun, just something to keep us occupied in the arena. I’ve played with this before and had tons of fun, but I have a hard time coaching, directing traffic, and coming up with a pattern for 4+ horses at the same time. Anyone have a dressage test type written pattern for 4-6 horses I can shamelessly borrow from? We’ll be keeping it to walk trot at this time, and our arena is approximately 25m wide by 55m long - wider but shorter then a proper full size dressage ring.

Also tips and tricks would be awesome, from those of you who’ve done this type of thing before.

[Janet]

USDF has a quadrille test written for 4 horses, and I have seen it ridden (effectively) with up to 8. That would be a good starting point.

https://www.usdf.org/docs/ShowFlash/web/Tests/2015/quadrillebasic.pdf is walk trot only.

https://www.usdf.org/docs/ShowFlash/web/Tests/2015/quadrilletraining.pdf includes some canter.

[Corky]

Awesome, thanks!