You judge on a lot of things, first of all the position of the rider. It is very important for the horse and rider to have elegance as well. Next, you look for the smoothness of there gait. Is it too fast? Too slow? Also if the rider is told to perform a specific movement and they mess up, they lose points. But the part that you lose most points for if you do incorrectly, is if you're on the right lead. Which means when you are doing posting trot and when you go up the horses outside leg should stretch forward. If his inside leg is stretching forward you are in the incorrect lead and will lose points.
110cm is the offical length. It may differ depending on the show.
a good dressage score is over 65% 70 % is what i would aim to get
The point of dressage is to test the behaviour of the horse. Many well trained dressage horses will/can get higher points in shows. Dressage is a very, very hard sport. Both horse and rider must coperate with each other. Look up Anky Van Grunsven in Google or Yahoo.
The current use of the word "dressage" is, in England, of comparatively recent date. The word has been taken over verbally from the French, as a term connected with horsemanship. The fact that there just is no exact equivalent whereby to translate "dressage" into English probably goes a long way to explain the misunderstanding, and sometimes event the touch of mystery, whereto the use of this word has given rise. I believe the word dressage is the french word for training. I could be wrong.
The United States has never won a dressage gold medal in the Olympics. In team dressage, the US has won 1 silver (1948) and 6 bronze (1932, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004). In individual dressage, the US has won 1 bronze (Hiram Tuttle in 1932).
110cm is the offical length. It may differ depending on the show.
Anyone can be a dressage writer. They need to be able to write quickly and legibly and have a working knowledge of the terminology used. Writers are often do it as a means of improving their own knowledge and performance. Sometimes they may be a trainee judge.
In dressage, a precisely measured arena is used, and it is labeled at various points with letters to help the rider and the judge be more precise in what they are doing. If you drew a line down the center of a dressage arena - the long way - that is the centerline.
Yes........ there is also dressage and eventing
Dressage is a French term that means training. All horses go through 'Dressage' at some point in their lives. However competitive Dressage is used to show off horses that have been trained to a higher degree than most others.
Show jumping, dressage, vaulting that sort of thing.
dressage, show jumping, and cross country jumping
Eventing, show jumping and dressage.
It could be said that dressage is better than western riding because dressage emphasizes balance and communication of horse and rider. It is in fact very similar to the western sport of reining, which requires the horse and rider to ride a pattern before a judge in the same way dressage does. The movements required for reining are slightly different from those of dressage, but the idea behind the two sports is the same.
Yes, you should plait your horse's mane and tail for lower level dressage. Grooming your horse and plaiting up shows respect to the judges. In higher level dressage, you may not need to, although you should always check with your instructor and the rules of the show. You will see if you watch videos of high level dressage test horses are unplaited and unbraided.
Show jumping, dressage and cross country.
Dressage is an equestrian sport. It can be done on its own or as part of three-phase eventing, which consists of dressage, cross-country and show jumping (stadium jumping).