In looking through the results, there are some abbreviations I’m not familiar with when a horse doesn’t have a result.
I know S is Scratch and E is elimination, but what do WL and DB mean? (I can only guess WL means Withdrew Lame, but sometimes they show in a class later, so I wouldn’t think lame.)
Are these peculiar to the Horse Show Office software?
I think WL means ‘wait list’.
We are having this very discussion on facebook. DB appears to mean Disqualified before entering.
WL means the rider was on the waitlist but didn’t get in to the class.
I hope not. One of the riders with a DB is someone I know quite well, and I can’t imagine what he could have done to be eliminated.
Left boots on, didn’t enter in 45 sec, carried whip, no number, left headset on, I think those all fit the category
Only not entering in 45 sec would result in DQ BEFORE entering. All of the rest would result in DQ after entering the court.
It has something to do with the software for the escribing. I believe those reasons for elimination are lumped together.
I’m confused. I’ve seen WLs in the Finals Championship classes. If the Finals classes are by invitation only, how do they have a waitlist? If you are invited, it should mean you are in!
I contacted HSO about DB. long story short, it’s rider who were nominated but didn’t fully qualify. Usually they are removed from the class lists before the competition.
I thought the exact same thing!!! If there wasn’t room, then horses coming just for the “normal” classes should have been cut to make space.
I believe riders who just miss the required score for an invitation, or, land just out of the placings in their Regionals, get a notification that they are wait listed for the Finals class. So that way if someone ahead of them doesn’t opt to show, they can.
I have a friend who was invited by winning her Freestyle at a level, but was wait listed for the regular class of the same level. She missed the required score by hundredths of a percent at Regionals. I think a 65 was required, or, being in the top two, no matter the score? (That info is somewhere but I can’t find it just now)
So she headed to KY entered in the Champs Freestyle for sure, and WL for the other Champs class. But nobody dropped out so she didn’t end up showing in it.
@yaya Qualifying for finals isn’t quite that straightforward. I didn’t do it this year, so maybe some of this has changed - but…
Before Regionals, you have to declare your intent to compete if you qualify.
At Regionals, the top two Declared Riders in each class automatically qualify, plus anyone who scores above the wild card score in the Championship class. If you place third, fourth, or fifth, you can nominate yourself, submit an entry, and hope that one of the top two decides not to compete.
They also have wild cards, people that have declared, competed in regionals and have a score high enough to meet criteria.
“Only not entering in 45 sec would result in DQ BEFORE entering. All of the rest would result in DQ after entering the court.”
I thought you could be eliminated in warmup with the whip therefore rung out before entering the arena.
You are allowed to warm up with a whip as long as it is legal length. One could be eliminated in warm up for illegal equipment or blood before class.
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