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CATEGORY: A
routine the rider and
his horse must complete
during a contest.
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SHOW JUMPING: A
type of contest in which
rider and horse carry
out a jumping routine.
There are many kinds of
contests either based on
penalties or points and
also various scores
according to the Point
Chart in use (A or C).
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HORSE SHOW:
Contest in which rider
and horse are judged
according to the horse’s
training and the rider’s
skill. The jury
estimates the rider’s
posture, the gait’s
regularity and balance,
the horse’s impulsion as
it nears the obstacle
and the harmony between
rider and horse.
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MOVEMENT: Any
single particular style
of a horse's motion. A
number of such movements
make up a dressage
routine.
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DRESSAGE: A type
of contest in which
judges award points for
the performance of the
horse and rider in a
series of movements
devised to try the
rider's control and the
horse's training.
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FIGURE EIGHT: An
exercise in which the
horse traces two
identical circles,
touching in the middle,
one clockwise and one
counter-clockwise. The
rider has to straighten
his horse a moment
before changing
direction at the
figure’s centre.
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PENALTY: A fault
in the show jumping
routine.
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FALL: If the
horse's shoulders or
hindquarters, or any
part of the rider's body
touches the ground, it
is considered a fall,
which causes automatic
elimination.
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DISOBEDIENCE: A
term that covers many
types of misconduct,
including deviating from
the course, a refusal
(the horse stops or
attempts to avoid the
obstacle) and resistance
(the horse shows by
rearing or stepping back
that it doesn’t want to
end the routine).
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COMPULSORY PASSAGE:
A spot on the course,
marked off by two flags
(a red one on the right
and a white one on the
left) through which
rider and horse have to
necessarily pass in
order to avoid
penalization.
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ROUTINE: The
obstacles that have to
be cleared during a
contest.
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