By collecting himself, your horse transfers his weight back onto his hindquarters and rounds his back. This frees up the front limbs and moves more freely and easily. A collected horse carries a rider better as well. A Collected horse is more balanced through their gates, and this prevents stumbling and loss of balance over fences and around tight turns.
Your horse will also evenly distribute their weight over jumps and really be able to push off properly over jumps and land better. It is also healthier for a horse to move in a rounded frame, and the risk of kissing spine and lameness decreases.
As a showjumper, you can already see the benefit of using Dressage when training a Show Jumping horse. The training scale in Dressage can be used to build up a young horse in show jumping and teach them valuable aspects in the flatwork that will greatly improve your riding in a course, especially in between jumps. When you have the optimal rider position, you should be, and feel, completely in balance in the saddle.
You should be able to move freely with the horse and balance all your weight in the stirrups. Dressage needs a longer leg position and a deep-seated position in the saddle.
In contrast, with Showjumping, the rider needs to have shorter stirrups and a shorter leg position to stand up and out of the saddle to allow the horse to jump as well as have a lighter seat position overall. Sitting quietly in the saddle and not throwing your weight around is another basic that is taught in Dressage and used in Show Jumping.
This allows both the horse and rider to be in balance. It is thus safe to say that Dressage is a basic need and aspect for all show jumpers and that all riders need to respect that. Eventing, as described by the USEA is, "the equestrian equivalent to a human triathalon, consisting of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping.
This event is usually contested over three days, hence the other popular term for the discipline, three-day event. By performing each of these classes, horses that compete in eventing show their balance, stamina, and precision. Dressage see above , in Eventing, is a bit different than traditional Dressage. The level of Dressage is significantly lower than pure Dressage and the tests are specific to eventing because the riders and horses must also focus on two other disciplines.
Tests are judged on the same criteria, but instead of being presented as a percentage, are marked on a penalty score. The lower your score, the better. The second day of competition is cross-country, which is a phase exclusive to the Eventing discipline. According the the USEA, "The cross-country phase typically takes place on the second day of competition, but always after the dressage phase.
Cross-country is the cornerstone of eventing, and proves the speed, endurance and jumping ability of the horse over varied terrain and solid obstacles. Carrying forward their penalty points from the dressage phase as their score, riders want to finish with the fewest penalties possible by jumping every fence on the first effort and finishing the course within the prescribed time limit. Cross-country features solid fences natural obstacles ie. Each level is ridden at a gallop with exact speed requirements varied depending on the level of competition.
Cross-country is a true test of the partnership and trust between the horse and rider. Riders must be extremely accurate, as there is a higher level of danger when jumping obstacles that do not fall down. The horses must be bold, brave, and extremely fit to compete in this phase. The USEA scores eventing based on penalty points. If a horse stops at a fence, known as a refusal, or runs past a jump, known as a run-out, the pair earns 20 penalty points. A second refusal or run-out at the same obstacle is an additional 40 points, and a third results in elimination.
Penalty points are also earned for every additional second over optimum time. The this phase, "tests the pair's precision over a series of colorful fences made of lightweight rails which are easily knocked down. This final phase tests the stamina and recovery of the horse after the very tiring cross-country phase. Eventing is a combination of dressage, show jumping and cross country , run on one day at the lower levels but at the higher levels, across a two or three day format.
There are also other disciplines of endurance riding and vaulting but both of these tend to have a smaller following. The first key point to understand is that where the three main disciplines are concerned, whatever the discipline, it appears in two forms — unaffiliated and affiliated.
You will need to register the horse, the rider and the owner as well if they are two different people. You will be issued with a membership card, a Rulebook and a right to compete at affiliated events It is probably fair to say that affiliated events are a higher level of competition than unaffiliated as affiliated events go right up to national and international level, but there is also a degree of overlap between the top end of unaffiliated events at local level and the bottom end of affiliated competition and many riders will do both.
Riders with a disability may compete in official competitions but need to have an exemption card if they require compensating aids etc. Riders need to be officially classified into a Grade prior to competing in the appropriate level PE tests.
Australia has sent a Dressage Team to each Olympic Games since and before that was represented by individuals.
Dressage Movements. Click HERE.
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