You know, this scenario is one of the reasons I have strong feelings about the TOH. When the judge’s command was “walk, reverse and walk” I’d sometimes use the TOH to reverse. Some judges would reward that, and I knew who they were. Some judges would ask what on earth I was doing, and I knew who those were too. 
It is a method of walking and reversing- if done correctly, you maintain a four-beat walk action and you end up facing the other direction. So for some judges that was the same amount of brownie points you’d get for doing a good flying change over a good simple change if not specified; some didn’t care; and for some, “I didn’t ask you to do it, so why did you?”
You are right. She clearly looks like a queen bee. Her husband seems like a better candidate to go to the interview. Why is he using a cane? Did he have a riding accident? I don’t see Stacia or Andrea acting like that. So embarrassed for the whole North Run group of riders that they would put up with this behavior. Was also surprised to see Baylee start riding with them.
I took the counter lead “trick riding” part as only them describing it for the test. Not landing on the off lead and continuing with it but when they asked for the jump to be jumped at a counter canter in the test.
TOH and walk pirouette are two different movements in dressage, with different definitions. The walk pirouette is essentially a more advanced version of the TOH and appears at higher levels. I think Fourth? But I could be mistaken.
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Not the first time she’s gotten pissy in the press conference. If you’re not going to participate politely, pretend you have a horse emergency that you need to tend to and don’t show up.
It was so disrespectful to all involved. Those kids and judges worked hard all day. She could of given 10 minutes of her day and try to at least pretend to give a s***. I thought it came off very arrogant as well, like she was better than anybody else at the table and didn’t need to pay attention because she wins this final all the time.
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Who is going to break the news to Beezie that the hind legs don’t cross? 
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That’s more like leg yielding on a circle than a TOH
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if the tests 1-19 were not only well defined, but there were also videos showing them done correctly?
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There are 17 tests in the USEF equitation rules for the rest of November.
There are new tests in the 2023 rules. However, I have not heard any mention of video demos.
Now that I think of it, I believe USEF did put out a video of the equitation tests some years back, but I don’t recall if turn on the haunches was included, or if it was even in the list of tests at that time. I want to say maybe Cynthia Hankins was the demonstrator? And she did a fantastic job.
Perhaps somebody with solid search skills might be able to find it.
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You’re absolutely right MHM, this already exists (starting around 45:15). Thank you for the corrections
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I’m impressed! Where did you find it??
Just came up on google. I’m not actually sure how I embedded the video! I pasted the link to the video on USHJA’s vimeo page
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I have a…drumroll…DVD of the test video. PCHA sent it to their members years ago.
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I think I have the DVD as well, although I don’t know exactly where it is right now off the top of my head. Lol.
I attended a live judge’s clinic in Wellington years ago with Cynthia Hankins as one of the participants/demonstrators. This was a clinic with a lot of top, top, top riders in it, and she absolutely smoked them all in the equitation class and won it by about 10 points. Super impressive!
I will be honest, I am not the most educated in the hunter world, but this article is: 
For a sport with a haunting history of body-shaming and placing the skinniest kid with the biggest horse on top, I guess we shouldn’t expect more. But to imply that she “defied all odds” because of her “athletic build” and then in the same article mention that her parents’ set her up with the best of the best of a horse education and bought her horse after horse is kind of a laugh. I think there was a way to point out that this year’s judging didn’t reward only the skinny kids on massive warmbloods, but this was a tasteless way to do it.
Even the article title makes me give it side-eye. I bet this kid is so sick of being the poster child for reforming the eating disorders of the hunter world. Not even going to touch the fact that most eating disorders are invisible.
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ehhhhh… not entirely… 1:21
Note, I’m not saying this is a TOH. But saying stopping the hind end leaves up as the only answer is not true.
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Wow, I just read this and it’s disgusting. Another winner from piper and the plaid horse… can we cancel them yet?
Can we please stop commentating on the weight/body shape of teenage girls?! Especially ones that are COMPLETELY NORMAL. I just can’t.
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Lovely article about the work that Skylar Wireman has done with Famous.
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