We have decided to offer Prix Caprilli at our local, small, dressage shows. As far as I can determine there are no set tests for them. Is this correct? With that in mind, does anyone have any they like? Thanks.
Hi. Yes there are Prix Caprilli tests - here is a link I found - http://www.bluegoosestable.com/wordp…Tests_3-15.pdf
We did offer the tests at a schooling show level. but few people signed up for those classes, perhaps because they were offered at the very end of the show day, to allow for arena jumps to be setup in the indoor show arena.
We offer them at our Schooling shows. They are very neat, but unfortunately very few people are doing them. There is a Training level and a First level Prix Caprilli test
Thanks for the link Inese. These are not offered at my GMO schooling shows but they look like fun and I printed them off and will be playing with them at home. Fun Fun!
wow I love the training level test, that stretch circle at the end , after the jump is a real test of obedience and rider /horse training
They are fun to ride in, too. I remember that back in the really, really olden days that the dressage tests ended with two jumps. Maybe more local shows should encourage these tests and hopefully they will catch on again.
There is a wonderful picture in Neil ffrench Blake’s “World of Dressage” (basically a photobook) of a British Dressage rider who participated in the 1960 Rome Olympics. I can’t remember her name, but the horse was a Connemara cross called “Little Model.” In this particular picture, she is doing the “obedience jump” even required at Grand Prix in that era. The horse (as the caption says, “showing his Connemara blood’) is doing an over-enthusiastic leap over about a 2’6” single rail, and the rider has been a little left so she’s yielding the reins, swallow tails flying (and, of course, wearing her top hat).
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Yes there are tests. I still have some from when our schooling series used to have it. I had to set up the jumps so I would highly recommend getting 3 solid cavalletis. We started with regular jumps but that meant plain standards and shorter poles to fit in a dressage ring. Then someone insisted on ground poles, which meant a lot of poles. Then the judges always seemed to have thier own idea about placement. With the cavalletis it was easier to adjust.
And don’t forget a schooling jump someplace! Can make the warm up ring interesting.
That sounds fun, I’ve never heard of it before.
There was a barn we used to take the kids to for a really casual schooling show. They offered a Prix Caprilli class at the end of the day. It is great for kids who like dressage but want to do a little jumping too. Two birds with one stone!
Hm. I didn’t know about this type of test, so I don’t have any to add. I am going to try the one posted…and maybe look for a few others. Something different.
Oh sweet lawd.
I did Prix Caprilli at schooling shows and then at the championship for the show series and none of them had warm up jumps.
I don’t think it occurred to anyone to offer or desire them.
I actually competed in an Intro and the Training level Prix Caprilli at one of our schooling shows. It was a blast! I would do it again! They had a warm up jump and it caused no issues.
