Question for the judges here

[dotneko]

@soloudinhere

Afaik dotneko is an R judge.

well, an S, but close

[lorilu]

thanks for not assuming I was judge bashing. Just always trying to educate myself…

[atlatl]

@lorilu

I have to wonder about the judging creds of those answering and discussing the various “scenarios” above… just because I am curious. NOT disputing any “score”, just curious as to your methodology arriving at the score.

And what if the horse is an amazing mover, with those momentary lacks? (specificly not the scenario with head in air and hollow!!)

I’m just an L grad, not even with distinction. I arrived at the guess of 6 based on the absence of anything remarkable in the question so extrapolated that there wasn’t anything remarkable about the horse’s gaits or the “weakness” shown in the training scale. Pretty much a “basic” satisfactory execution, hence the hypothetical score of 6. If the weaknesses were more remarkable, like the llama impression, then it the score would go down accordingly.

For those wishing to educate themselves, I recommend the FEI Dressage Judge’s Handbook. It goes into excruciating detail about when to give what score under a wide range of conditions. https://inside.fei.org/system/files/…ary_2019_0.pdf