Re: bits allowed for evaluations

2006-05-17 Thread FjordAmy
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 5/16/2006 10:22:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guess what? I have a 6 yo mare who has nothing noticeable or technically wrong w/ her mouth + palate, (even did a bit seat for her) but she is VERY sensitive

Re: bits allowed for evaluations

2006-05-17 Thread coyote
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, but the a Kimberwick DOES come in a low port. And if used on the full ring or the upper slot, there is no leverage. So... Why does it not qualify as a snaffle? According to what I understand from reading the USEF/USDF rules, the problem with

Re: bits allowed for evaluations

2006-05-16 Thread Pat Holland
This message is from: Pat Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] We polled other trainers/owners and Wayne Hipsley, the chief evaluator, and all were in agreement that other bits should be allowed--that the bit component of the rules needed to be re-evaluated--especially for the advanced tests.

Re: bits allowed for evaluations

2006-05-16 Thread Lori Albrough
This message is from: Lori Albrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat Holland wrote: At the very least, we whom have the experiance and knowledge of the discrimination understand it. Those making the rules apparently do not. I was a member of the evaluation committee when the issue of bits for English

Re: bits allowed for evaluations

2006-05-16 Thread Karen McCarthy
This message is from: Karen McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lori and everyone else who reads this list and is concerend about this, I think we need to remember that we are not trying to do a 'pure' dressage test, nor a 'pure' western test...I thought the intent of the evals was to make the testing