small tour? what exactly does this mean?

[vestito]

So I have a friend who is a jumper rider. She is talking to her friend who does dressage. Dressage rider tells jumper rider she is going to do one more year of the small tour . Jumper rider tells me that small tour means showing PSG and I1.

Is that what doing the small tour means? I was thinking that it meant doing more local rated shows before moving up to the qualifiers.
When I asked her this she told me no, small tour means PSG and I1.
so can someone please tell me if all this time I have been thinking the total wrong thing here?

[yaya]

Small tour is PSG and I1.

[honeylips]

For me it means a horse that has declared for the US Intermediare I championships selections and is showing PSG/1-1 and the I1 FS at the CDI’s.

Not just a horse who is showing psg/i1 at local shows.

[slc2]

that’s one definition, it depends on who says it. to some people it means any or all the fei levels including gp, just at a lower, easier level of competitiveness.

[Capriole]

@slc2;3058559

that’s one definition, it depends on who says it. to some people it means any or all the fei levels including gp, just at a lower, easier level of competitiveness.

“Some people” = people who are mistaken!

honeylips’ is the definition with which I am familiar: PSG/I-1 at CDIs.

[slc2]

I didn’t make any judgement about which one is the right usage (i left that to you, LOL). In any case, it would probably be difficult for you to force all people to mean the same thing when they say ‘small tour’. It would be tough for you to enforce that, for one thing.

[Fixerupper]

Small tour PSG, I1
Big tour I2, GP & GPS

[J_Lav]

[QUOTE=Fixerupper;3059406]
Small tour PSG, I1
Big tour I2, GP & GPS[/QUOTE]

That is the definition as we understand and use it in Europe.

[egontoast]

that’s one definition, it depends on who says it. to some people it means any or all the fei levels including gp, just at a lower, easier level of competitiveness.

Who says that?

I didn’t make any judgement about which one is the right usage (i left that to you, LOL). In any case, it would probably be difficult for you to force all people to mean the same thing when they say ‘small tour’. It would be tough for you to enforce that, for one thing

Hmmm. That discloses a little more about your experience than you might like.

[slc2]

it must be darn hard to find things to pick on some days. :lol::lol:

i recall having someone chew my ear off for quite a long time…she had been in europe and spectated at horse shows, and was complaining that the american riders “only go to the ‘small tour shows’ over there, not the shows with top rider’s first string horses”. i’m not sure there really is a word for ‘smaller shows with less competitive classes’, but i though that’s what she was trying to get at.

[egontoast]

Just because one person in the world believes it, does not make it an alternate definition.

More likely you were confused about the definition and that is your standard backpedal. It’s OK to be wrong sometimes, you know.

[vestito]

ok well one thing is for sure I was way off in my thinking!
Thanks to all who responded and set that straight for me:)