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That’s gonna hurt! :([/QUOTE]
I guess not!!! What BS.
I hope Steffen is thrilled with such a young horse and I hope Courtney’s happy…
Yes - Isabell!
OK, so I am obviously not a dressage person (H/J) but it’s amazing to me that something that bad can happen and still be the top score.
I don’t think so - the horse went on and performed the movement and continued the test perfectly. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen too many so cool under pressure and recover so fast.
You have got to be kidding me
A rear and bolt backwards gets you first place? This judging is EL SUCKO.
Holy. cow.
Article 403 The walk
. . .
4.3. Extended walk. The horse covers as much ground as
possible, without haste and without losing the regularity of his
steps, the hind feet touching the ground clearly in front of the
footprints of the forefeet. The rider allows the horse to stretch out
his head and neck without, however, losing contact with the
mouth.
4.4. Free walk. The free walk is a pace of relaxation in which the
horse is allowed complete freedom to lower and stretch out his
head and neck.
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I don’t think so - the horse went on and performed the movement and continued the test perfectly.[/QUOTE]
Would that be the same for other riders? I think not…
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A rear and bolt backwards gets you first place? This judging is EL SUCKO.[/QUOTE]
Yep. :mad:
You could score a 0 on one movement and if the rest are of sufficient quality you will score well. Quite fair really! It tends to reward consistency AND correctness.
Honestly, this is discouraging. Anky’s horse WAS uneven in some movements. Isabel was having a nice ride, I love Satchmo, but COME ON!!! This is so dissapointing to watch. If ANYONE else’s horse did that, you can bet the score would have been on the 60’s. What crap.
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Honestly, this is discouraging. Anky’s horse WAS uneven in some movements. Isabel was having a nice ride, I love Satchmo, but COME ON!!! This is so dissapointing to watch. If ANYONE else’s horse did that, you can bet the score would have been on the 60’s. What crap.[/QUOTE]
Besides the fact that Satchmo looked a bit frazzled in the first part of his canter work.
[QUOTE=Bugs-n-Frodo;3448102]
Honestly, this is discouraging. Anky’s horse WAS uneven in some movements. Isabel was having a nice ride, I love Satchmo, but COME ON!!! This is so dissapointing to watch. If ANYONE else’s horse did that, you can bet the score would have been on the 60’s. What crap.[/QUOTE]
Exactly and that is what frustrates me…God I can’t wait for the jumpers to start again…no politics:D
isabel had a fabulous ride except for one movement. Maybe she would have been in the 80s with that ride.
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You could score a 0 on one movement and if the rest are of sufficient quality you will score well. Quite fair really![/QUOTE]
Maybe. However, in aerobatics, which has a very similar scoring system, a 0 on a figure will put you totally out of the running unless everyone else gets VERY low scores. I don’t see how such a gross disobedience should be able to beat what were very good tests by several other riders.
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Besides the fact that Satchmo looked a bit frazzled in the first part of his canter work.[/QUOTE]
I also heard what appeared to be a kick at the boards at one point.
Yes, ridgeback, it’s always like that - for everyone. I have had moments like that in a class and it affected scores not at all - not in the least. It has been that way for everyone for a very long time - because it’s a basic, basic principle of dressage judging. She performed the movement. She recovered, she went on, it was fine.
This is not a western pleasure class, things like that are given very, very little emphasis. It was referred to in one judge’s seminar article as ‘a momentary instinctive reaction’. If the rest of the work is good, it is not going to be a major issue. For anyone. That’s all there is to it. She evidently lost some points for it, but simply not alot, and all your conspiracy theories aside, I think that’s exactly the way it should be.
Besides - I would bet anything she was on the road to get a 76 or even higher without that. She didn’t get that. And she got her lowest score from the German judge.
That wasn’t disobedience-he’s so talented he was doing the test backwards. She looked like an eventer after a bad landing for a second-those full seats must have stickum on 'em. I can’t believe that she’s in first after that.
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Would that be the same for other riders? I think not…[/QUOTE]
Based on what exactly?
