Bronze Competitions
QSLB Cadora will be offering three Bronze competitions and one Bronze Championship competition in the 2011 season. Go to Show Dates for dates and locations. Please download the prize list and read thoroughly!
Memberships required for a Bronze competition: OEF (Ontario Equestrian Federation) membership, EC (Equine Canada) Bronze sport license. Horse passports are not required at Bronze competitions. QSLB memberships are not required. However, QSLB members will be granted preferred entry to over-subscribed shows and reduced administration fees to show entries, in addition to being eligible to compete in the Bronze Championship and eligible for year-end awards.
Special QSLB Introductory Offer: Riders who have never competed in any QSLB shows may compete for one full season at any QSLB Bronze show including the Bronze Championship without becoming a QSLB members. Such riders are not eligible for year-end awards. This means that you pay the member administration fee of $10 instead of the non-member fee of $25.
Classes offered at QSLB Bronze competitions: at Bronze shows only, each test offered will have a Pony class and an Open class. Ponies my show in either the open classes or the pony classes but not both. Only Junior competitors are eligible to compete in a Pony class. Tests offered include Cadora Walk/Trot tests A, B, C, D, E, F; EC Training level test 1, 2, 3 and EC First level test 1, 2, 3. All Walk/Trot and Training level tests will be held in the 20x40 ring, all First level tests will be held in the 20x60 ring. Freestyles are available at all Bronze shows with the exception of the QSLB Championship show in September, please notify the show organizer in advance if you wish to do one. Cadora Walk/Trot and Training level freestyles are available at www.cadora.ca and EC First level freestyle is available at www.dressagecanada.org. NOTE: Horse/rider combinations entered in walk/trot classes may NOT enter Training or First level classes (unless hors concours).
Bronze Awards Available: QSLB awards - Champion and Reserve: Junior and Senior, Walk/Trot only, based on the total of your best two scores over 50%, from 2 different judges at two different shows, excluding Freestyles. Champion and Reserve: Junior and Senior, Training and First, based on the total of your best two scores over 50%, from 2 different judges at two different shows, excluding Freestyles. Junior and Senior ‘High Scores’ will be calculated at each show, open to Non-Members. These ribbons will be presented at our end of year banquet. Cadora National/Ontario members are eligible for a Cadora Bronze award. Equine Canada, Dressage Canada and the Ontario Equestrian Federation have no awards available at the Bronze level.
Bronze Championships: QSLB Bronze Championship
Sunday September 11, 2011 Evergreen Farm, Glenburnie, ON.
2011 Rules of Equine Canada Section E - please note competitors are responsible for knowing and understanding their rule books: Equine Canada Section A: General Rules and Regulations (2011) AND Equine Canada Section E: Dressage (2011). The following are only a SMALL sampling of the rules!
Article E 4.1.4 BRONZE COMPETITIONS: WALK/TROT THROUGH FOURTH LEVEL
- A dark coloured jacket (tailcoats not permitted). Contrasting pin stripes and piping are allowed.
- ASTM/SEI or BSI approved protective headgear, bowler, hunt cap, top hat.
- White or light coloured breeches
- Juniors are permitted to wear jodhpurs and jodhpur boots
- Tie, hunting stock, or choker
- Gloves
- Black or brown boots (plain, laced or with zippers)
- Black or brown half chaps or half boots zipped over short boots may be worn. Half chaps/boots are forbidden at Silver and Gold competitions.
- Spurs are optional. See E 4.1.8.
Article E 4.2 BRIDLES
- All bridles must be correctly fitted and be black or brown in colour.
- Reins must be black or brown in colour.
- Type of reins is optional but reins with hand loops, elastic or rubber inserts are prohibited.
- Bitless bridles are not permitted.
- Padding is allowed on bridles.
- Chain browbands are not permitted unless the chain is a decoration stuck to a leather browband.
- The browband may not have anything hanging from it. Exception: a small name tag is permitted.
- The Micklem bridle is permitted.
Article E 4.2.1. SNAFFLE BRIDLE
Required at Walk/Trot, Training, First and Second level but optional at Third and Fourth Levels.
Article E 4.5 SADDLES
- A plain English black or brown saddle with stirrups is compulsory at Walk/Trot through Fourth Level.
- Dressage saddles are required in FEI classes. The saddle must be close to the horse and have long, near-vertical flaps.
- An English saddle type saddle may be assembled with or without a tree but cannot have a horn, swell, gallerie or open gullet.
- Australian, Baroque, Endurance, McClellan,Spanish, Stock or Western saddles are not permitted nor are modified versions of these saddles.
- Leather or fabric/synthetic saddles are permitted.
- Saddle covers are not allowed at any level.
- If a saddle pad is used, it must be solid white, off white, grey, black or other dark colour. It may have piping of a different colour to the pad.
Article E 4.7 WHIPS
- A whip may be carried in all levels at Bronze, Silver and Gold competitions.
- Whips may not be carried in championship competitions or national team selection trials.
- The total length of the whip (including lash) must not exceed 120 cm.
- Whips for ponies in all classes must not exceed 100 cm in length including lash.
- Telescoping whips are not permitted.
- The following whips are permitted in the schooling areas: a) A standard lunging whip, when lunging an unmounted horse only b) A whip for in-hand work no longer than 1.80 meters including lash (to be used only by one person on the ground).
