Time for bringing in the technical scores for the 6 year old horses
It´s a huge jump from doing the 5 year old test stepping up to 6 year old level, and when watching the finals the top of the 6 year old final were pure light and easy riding.
Is it time for bringing the technical scores like for the 7 year old horses, I think so. Because when following the judging for the 6 year old final, there were more times where the technical part was taken much to much into consideration for the marks of each gait, and included in both submission and perspective marks.
The PERSPECTIVE
There are of course many aspects taken into consideration when judging the World Championships for Young Horses, and from H2R point of view the PERSPECTIVE mark is actually where you should be able to see which horses are for the future of our sport.
At the World Championships the perspective mark deserves to be the place where the judges gives their comments and marks for the future Grand Prix horse and therefore judged with at least coefficient 2.
The marks did not follow the comments
Lightning Star by Ferguson / De Niro ridden by Kirsten Brouwer, lots of power with fire of the ground movements. For the technical part it was just three steps for the half pass left where the mare gets a bit tense and becomes a bit too high in the neck. But the swinging, self carriage, eager to go forward, balance for the turns and natural uphill tendency look like the exact way you would like it for the future, and said that the transition to walk is back on the hindlegs catching the clear active walk rhythm from the first step with good walk pirouettes and good quality of the canter. The first flying change is a bit hind the aides, 2nd good, in the counter canter left the mare see the cameraman and stops, but Kirsten manage to continue and show the next flying change without any issues. This top mare finished 8th in the ranking for the final.
Some of the judges comments were: “The trot was like a clock work very bouncy, when you think of going further you can already guess a little of passage (and here the judges takes a minor technical issues into consideration which is negatively reflected by the trot score of just 8,8!) The walk was good in the over track with good reach of the shoulders and could have been a little clearer when you bought him (it´s a her) back for the walk pirouettes 7,9 (is it really for such a huge deduction in the walk mark? not really!) the canter has a lot of spring and elasticity, looked easy to collect, really quick bouncing of the ground as well, you prepared all the lateral work very well, the transitions were nice, “he” was frighten for one little moment, we didn´t want to kill him for that (but they definitely did with just and 8,0! for submission), the perspective for this horse willing to work for you and with you is an 8,8.”
