Getting Ready To Film

• The person videoing needs to be standing behind C, holding your phone landscape (if the video is in portrait it is very difficult to judge) and zooming in at the A end of the school. You need to be in a marked arena with correct measurements either on grass or in a school

• Ask your ‘filmer’ (kindly) to try their hardest to keep you in the centre of the screen at all times

• Your video must have NO cuts. It must start at least 2 seconds before the rider enters at A and preferably 4 seconds after the rider salutes at the end.

• Either you or the person videoing your test MUST introduce you, the horse AND the month you are filming at the beginning of the video.

Tack & Turnout

• Show attire is not required, but smart clothes and gloves must be worn. If a show jacket or hacking jacket is worn, then the horse or pony must wear boots or bandages to clearly demonstrate that the test has not been recorded at a competition.

• Riding hats must be worn. Suitable footwear with a heel and gloves must be worn for safety reasons.

• Bridles– For Introductory, Preliminary and Novice tests – ordinary snaffle bridle; Elementary and above – ordinary snaffle or double bridle. Nosebands must be worn, a drop, cavesson, grackle or flash with a snaffle or a cavesson with a double bridle.

• Bits – BD permitted bits only, of which are: Loose ring snaffle, snaffle with jointed mouthpiece where the middle piece should be rounded, Egg-butt snaffle, D-ring or racing snaffle, Loose ring snaffle with cheeks (Fulmer), Fulmer keepers are permitted, Snaffle with upper cheeks only, Hanging cheek snaffle, Straight bar snaffle (Must be straight with no ports or raised bumps), Snaffle with rotating mouthpiece, Snaffle with rotating middle piece, rotary bit with rotating middle piece. Bombers Equestrian’s Flexible Mullen and Loose Ring Ultra Comfy, as well as eight types of Myler bit, The Happy Mouth Bit HB-6000-SP and the HB-6801-SP model are all allowed under the new rules. No bit guards are allowed

• Other tack - martingales, side, running or elasticised reins may not be used in any competition class

• Neck straps or balancing straps (a loop on the front of the saddle) may be used at all levels in British Dressage tests. Cruppers are also allowed in FEI Dressage tests.

• Boots or bandages are allowed to be worn

• Spurs and a whip may also be used

• No exercise fleece or sheets to be worn

Uploading your test

• Upload your video via You Tube - Upload your video to YouTube and email the link to info@classifiedequine.co.uk - You Tube’s the best way, at the end of the year you will easily be able to look back over all of your videos!

Judges and Results

• Judges decisions are final. No communication or discussion will be entered into by Classified Equine, any of its representatives or the judge involved. Any objection or appeal regarding a score must be made in writing within 24 hours of the test being judged.

• Very rarely mistakes may be made with calculating percentages, please ensure we are notified by email within 24 hours of receipt of your test sheet and we will endeavour to rectify any errors