Send An Enquiry. Let's Talk Horses Newsletter To subscribe enter your email in the box below. Follow Us. All Rights Reserved. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Differences between Affiliated and Unaffiliated Dressage judging. As the title really, I'm curious to know whether there are any differences between the judges scores for affiliated and unaffiliated dressage.
My aim next year is to do a BE80, but was wondering what the judging would be like for the dressage. I know it will be stricter for afffiliated but was curious as to what my marks would be. I'm getting 6's and 7's at the moment with an occasional 5, so would they be marked lower at BE80 or affiliated dressage? I'm only asking this as I have never actually competed affiliated before, I have only ever done unaffiliated events.
To enter in these competitions both the horse and rider need to be registered with the governing body in question and usually pay a membership fee.
Unaffiliated competitions can be run by any venue and can be judged by anyone. However, the number of unaffiliated events that are using registered judges is increasing, largely due to competitor demand for informed and useful feedback on their performance. The plus side of competing in an unaffiliated event is that it is usually much cheaper with lower entry fees and zero membership fees. At affiliated dressage competitions, only judges who are registered and qualified with the governing body is permitted to officiate.
All the judges are highly-trained and must attend regular judge training seminars at the level appropriate to their status in order to remain a judge. If you want to know more about how to become a dressage judge, then click here.
As mentioned earlier, dressage tests comprise of a number of set exercises that are scored by the judge from 1 to 10, with half marks being used where appropriate. Each mark correlates to a predetermined standard that all registered judges are trained to observe.
When it comes to awarding marks, we are unable to tell you everything that goes through a judges brain when they are deciding what score to give for each movement. Well we could, but this blog post would be ten times longer!
But if you want more information on what determines a score of 8. Within these posts, we outline what the judges are looking for in that particular movement and give you hints on tips and how to ride it correctly, giving you a greater chance of a winning mark. Again, these are given a score out of 10 based on the scale of marking above. These scores are often then doubled, for example, if you were awarded a 7. If you make a mistake and take the wrong course during the test, the judge will ring the bell to stop you.
If your mind has gone blank, you may ask someone to call the remainder of the test for you, provided the class is not a championship. One of the favourites which always catches people out is the difference between pure dressage, so a test run under BD rules where you can have a caller and can carry a long schooling whip, and the dressage element of an unaffiliated ODE or BE competition where neither a caller nor a schooling whip is permitted, so you will need to learn your test!
Finally, if you are a Pony Club member or a member of an affiliated Riding Club, these also have their own rules for competition but do tend to borrow and overlap those of BD, BE and BS. So check your PC or RC rules carefully as there will be restrictions at certain levels of qualifying competition for horses that carry affiliated points or winnings.
Top Tip: check the rules carefully for your discipline and then you will only need to update yourself on any changes on an annual basis. Most organisations flag their rule changes well ahead of the new competition season.
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