Spinning off the sitting trot thread.
I was thinking about what it might be like to have tests written and judged with purpose and directives more explicitly tied to training of the rider instead of training of the horse. It makes sense to me that people riding horses trained above their own riding level get more specific information about what the implications of the moves are for their own development as a rider and feedback in the way of scores tied directly to that info.
What might this look like? Would it add value to the current competition environment? What extra burden would there be in training judges?
( To tie in to the other thread, a more gradual progression to sitting trot would make sense in tests developed specifically for rider training than in the current tests that are nominally testing the horse’s training as the primary objective (IMHO).)
