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MONTH 6: In Action Tests at Training/Preliminary Level

Congratulations!! You have made it - we are at the last month of Mastering the Training Level/Preliminary level dressage horse!

Firstly - full credit to you! It’s not a normal person that sticks to and stays committed through their dressage journey!

Now it’s time to bring it all together! We have been working on the German Training Scale and Rider Success Scale in relation to the Training Level/Preliminary Level horse.

Mastery of Training Level/Preliminary Part 5: In Action Tests

Dressage Mastery Academy

Module 2: Mastering Training Level/

Preliminary

To recap, your Training Level/Preliminary Level horse should be:

GERMAN TRAINING SCALE

Topic Description: Training Level/Preliminary Level Horse

Rhythm Your horse will be in a much better rhythm than when you started the 6 months of this module. He will go more alone and stay at the rhythm you want with adjustment from light half halts. You will have a clear 4 beat walk, 2 beat trot that stays the same rhythm - not faster then slower, you will also have your horse happy to travel forward and carry you. You will have a 3 beat canter with jump and the horse will be happy to stay in it.

Losgelassenheit Your horse wants to work with you and accepts your aids and lets them through, the horse is accepting of the demands you ask of it and finds all the Preliminary/Training Level work easy.

Contact Your horse accepts the contact and remains happily on the bit and on the vertical in all movements including transitions.

Impulsion The horse is starting to learn to push in lengthened strides and happily doing transitions between the gaits and in the gait without running on the forehand.

Straightness Your horse is accepting of the shoulder fore to straighten him on the long sides and can do a straight centreline and halt.

Collection The horse is starting to collect for a few strides before downward transitions and is accepting and listening and reacting to the half halt.

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RIDER SUCCESS SCALE

Topic Description: Training Level/Preliminary Horse

Seat You are still working on mastering your seat and using your weight and movements to influence the way the horse is going. In particular you will work on getting your seat to the next level of mastery to really show off lovely trot-canter transitions.

Mindset You will enjoy training young horses, you will relish the challenge of teaching a horse to learn the German Training scale and work with you. You will enjoy your training and understand it wont always go smoothly - in fact most sessions won’t go how you want them - but don’t worry, every session is getting you closer to where you want to go.

Contact Your hands will be getting more still and your knowledge and skill to get a horse into a steady contact will be improved.

Transitions Like I mentioned your transitions - trot-halt-trot and trot-canter will be worked on a lot in this module and you will get them to the next level of mastery.

Yielding You can get your horse to move off your inside or outside leg to straighten them and the horse accepts the shoulder fore to keep the horse straight.

Half Halt You apply the half halt and the horse reacts and responds by sitting back on the haunches, lightening the forehand and becoming lighter and more reactive to you.

Remember this is where we are headed - to master the German Training Scale and the Rider Success Scale, from Preliminary/Training level all the way to Grand Prix level dressage. Be patient with where you are in your journey - you won’t have the seat of Isabel Werth, who has been a Grand Prix dressage rider for 20 years, if you have only just started riding - but it is something that you can work towards!

Let’s make a commitment now to improving throughout your journey and mastering the German Training and Rider Success scales at each level. The scales will mean different things at different points in the journey - collection will mean a different thing in Preliminary (Training) level dressage than it will in Grand Prix level dressage.


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Goals for this month

When you compete you should enjoy the test of performing with your horse at that time, on that day! :)

The test on the day is merely a reflection of where you are at in your training and if you need to take your standards and performances to the next level. Remember - they are looking for perfection, but perfection is not something you will ever get to, as when you reach what you thought was perfection, you will ask for something else, something more!

To help you after every test, over the next couple of pages there are the some tables for you to fill out. They are the Australian Preliminary tests 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 - however, the Training Level (USA) Test 1, Test 2 and Test 3 are the same.

You want to look through the marks that you typically get on your tests, and think about the ways that you can improve your mark in that part of the test by 1 mark, so that your test slowly increases in percentages!!


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So that you can take a look at tests that I have done on Gretchen, my Training Level/Preliminary Level warmblood mare, as well as tests that my students have done, I have included a couple of them below. None of them are perfect - I didn’t get 100% in any of them - but it is all part of the journey! When you follow me into Elementary/First Level and Novice/Second level you will see that I push my standards higher and high as I go along.

This is all about bringing it together, so whether or not you feel you are ready for a competition or not, I really encourage you to go out and try at a competition. There is nothing quite like getting out there and being under the pressure of having to do something perfectly in front of a judge - RIGHT NOW! This tends to be where it all falls apart! Your horse might feel really good in the warm up - and then you go into the ring and it doesn’t happen :)

I don’t care how good a rider you are at home, how good your work is at home, I want you to prove it to me and get out there in the arena and compete!! Who cares about what other people think - don’t waste your energy on that. You are out there to compete because of the love of it, the fun of it, and to test where you and your horse are in your dressage training journey.

Start enjoying the journey!

I trust you have enjoyed and you are inspired by the last month of Module 2 and you are ready for First Level/Elementary Level dressage which we start next month!


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Dynamite Hit is my Warmblood Mare Gretchen:


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TEST DIRECTIVE IDEASJudg.sMa*a00) oo

Total HEMARKS

I A IEnterinraorkingtct1l x lratsatr-leD:CAJ ;^ VOt-.C +O

Sraightness m centreline ard inhalti innDb|ilty quality ofrot;,,.i rc Ea.ceClEsiars

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2CB

Trd(r€nOrde right 2frn

Ebrd ad Hare in trm C-d'ty dfd; sfEpe ard siE of cirde; berd

,) 3d u, t^ vai.\^r1 . [ .\ H,-rsfe e,)tn rP\ l?*-,4

J too/ Cfa'ge rein uorkirgfd fualfiy of tot; straighlness ondaprd; berd >{"c tl\>t

4 BdweenC&H \Abrkirg carta ldt ld WIlirE, calmtransition; +Elity of trd

ard carter; berd ttrough coner -A| '\J i, {li. su1gv-{ {',*.IE E Ordeldt2frn O.talfty of cante{; sfEpe ard size of

cirde; berd 70 2 r4 ,-1 .-1 + .d t,"{ | ( * r-'i r:'' (rro1i u,.v'r i: -{

b BehneenE&K Vlbrkirg trct WIlirp, balarced trarsition; qnlrty

of canter ardtrot l'. :'

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A

Grde ldt 2frn rising trd,alloilrgtfe huse tosfdchfcr\ ard arddo^rw\ard

Shqten tlp reirs

\ t*ingtrd

Forv\ard ard do nv\Erd stretch o/ertrE back into a light contactnEintainirE balarEe ard quality oftrot; berd; stnpe and sze of cirde;snmth, bajanced trarsitiors

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BdueenA&F tr&ditmualk WllirE, balarEed trarsition; qnliV

of fot ard \ dk 6iI FXM

Nrc

Free ualk on a lorg rdn

lVhdumualk

Fbdr ard grq.rd ot€r of ftee ualkdlo\irE @rqCete freedomto slretcfrtie rEck fo$ard tr|d do^irMard;q-Jality ard rQularity of ned unualk; r,rilling, balareed farsitiors;s'tmiohtlBmdiaml

['\ 2 ^.-J s *+* to* 5l*o-c[i e,'t\ (" *^l

10 V\,brkirctrc{ WllirE, bajarDed trarEition; +aliVoftrd L1

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dago.d; berdrE thu-dr cqrers l) 6i ., .i .. 1.,.,{1.,. t:-t''13

Bd\rcenc&M \ trkirg cater rigft led WllirE, darntrarEition; qLaJiV of trot

ard canteri berd (t)Jl

1, t o/ ( JL^v'l r, t-rt c (-'

14 B Orde right 2frn Q.Jality of canter; slape ard size ofcirde; berd 1{ 2 r(

15BdueenB&F \,brkirEtrd Wllirg, balarred trarsition; qralrty

dcarter ard trct 1; ST

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htmcertrdireFhlt, Saiute

Berd ard balance in twn,straightness on centreline ard inlnft; vrilling balanced trarEition;innotrilitv

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Preliminary 1 :3 oEffective 1/1/14

Arena size 60m x 20m Test Time 5:00 l\/linutes (from entry at A to final halt)Suggested Draw Time - 7:00 minutes

BridleNo. \ , 1 ,a

aJudge Position

C om petitorlPartic ipant

event )ura-wo^.nio" N. Ar+xoffluogetlame h LGf ltl

norse DHnarrzr't<- Hr* @lpony(pteasecircrel

@ tvn IJNR (circre)

oarc 2L{' tc> - lt{Purpose: To confirm that the horse is suppte and moves freely foruard in a clear and steady rhythm, accepting contact with the bitlntroduces: No new requirementslnstructions: To be ridden in a snaff/e. All trotsitting or rising unless stated othenruise. Halts may be through the walk

Leave arena in walk on a long rein at A

TEST DIRECTIVE IDEASJudgsfilrd(s(0)

E Tohl REMARKS

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AX

Enter in working trotHa t. SaluteProceed in workinq trot

Straighlness on centreline and in

fl, J laa -ui.Ld rt.! 5;{

(o^'t i3 !<Yc't t (.;',\r <i\t1[OS+ stra,rr1h.in-oSS L/t te.q,lf

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HXK

Track left

One loop

Bend and balance in turn; quality oftrot; shape and size of loop; changesof bend

7,a Acc.;rra..rk< L"oP

3BetweenA&F Working canter left lead 8.o 2 il: 6nnoo*|\ t bofo.r,rcol

and canter; bend

4 B Circle left 20m Quality of canter; shape and size ofcircle; bend

'l.o ccn:tel o?Qrl elutt€-tcte-6r/ rq+}r-*

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X

Change rein

Working hotQualrty of canter and trot;straightness on diagonal; ;.5 (toclaorr'eslb e +'ot

nAo,r'^{o4 v\<.d @),ang-6

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AK

Medium walk

Medium walkWilling, balanced transition; qualityof walk l.o vv\ote_ €,l.^*r1-

KXH

).Free walk on a long rein

lrledium walk

Reach and ground cover of free walkallowing complete freedom to stretchthe neck foMard and downward;quality and regularity of mediumwalk; willing, balanced transitions;straiqht on diaoonal

6.o 2 1*c fli\

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iiorK rg trot

One ioop

Quality of trot; willing, balancedtransition; shape and size of loop;chanoes of bend

'l.o Ac<-rtra-)e. loop

I BetweenA&K Working canter right lead

Willing, calm transition; quality of kotand canter; bend 9.o 2

cdo,lcL bG-lcr,s\c&- + a{fefVfr'cyf

10 E Circle right 20m Quality of canter; shape and size ofcircle: bend fr.o Aao.( r"0+^",r,, + f\or..;

11 C Working trot Willing, balanced transitiont qualityof trot 7.o

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a :* -i--: -:-.:::s-icn fonvaro anodownwardShorten the reins

:-a:f:. -:: . ':- --'.1-'

trot; bendt shape and s ze of ctrclesmooth, balanced transitions

.o !ta6utd. Seek- acnrc'.ct ri1^Y<-

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X

Down centreline

Halt, Salute

Bend and balance in turn,straightness on centreline and inhalt; willing balanced transition j

immobilitv7.o

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Paces (freedom and regularitY)

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lmpulsion (desire to'move forward, elasticity of the steps, relaxation of the

back and engagemqntof the quarters)

4-*/, ,L{)'-Rideis position and seat; correctness and effect of the aids

O2010Urte: ::.::, i:-=::- a' =':='.':-^ -' .-iIE f3's5g IALStra ::- :=:' ^'.i: :-:-:::-- .::- :'-:l: :'E-:;

resen,ed Re:':t-:: :' "".'a-'-:2-'--:: :- : :-:- ::e: r1 a"'' This

test ls ra:':l .', :- '.''-:a'-:: :- :'-!i:':- -'::' ::-estran,l-::': . -!i:, - --.'a:---'' : ='-''-' =-''.':''

c-ss l-:' ---a---: ::: :- : t:"'-'-:: :j :: "-' :"'"'..'-''' es'r' -- . ---' -' --a.. - t" ''

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7"o 1

confidence; harmony, lightness and ease of the t<p-) rb

7.o 2

TOTAL MARKS 230

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Pa,rtlta - nil^t , [a.t"" I Mlnu! l!ra]Is!gll!r:course Errors | 'lu I 2" I 3n I Minus Total Faults(Cumulative) | -2 I -af=Ot I Etimi"atior I _

FINAL MARK

PE RC ENTAGE

This is the first Preliminary Level (Training Level) test that one of my riders did on her young horse (Montana and Lacey).


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TqUESTRIANAU5TRALI A

Preliminary 1 :3 oEffective 1/1/'14

Arena size 6Cr x 20m Test Time 5100 M nties (irom entry at A to final halt)

Suggested Draw Time - i 00 minutes

IYR IJNR (circle)

- tv

Purpose: To confim that the horse ls supple and moves fteely fo*tan " e ciear and stedy rhfrhm accepi;ng a'!a:: *t: te bit

lntoduces: No new requkementslnsttuctions: To be ridden in a snafr1e. AII trot sittng or rising unl€ss siated ohelwise. Halts may be firough f^e w: <

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Date

BridleNo,

Judge Position

Com petitor/Pa rtic iPant

Horse I Pgly (please circle)

Rider

TEST

.Judr

(1 0)

RETTARKS

1

AX

Enter in v,ct r: :.clHalt, SaluleDrnnood r

Straightness -i -=- -. -:.^. 'halt; immo: :, :-: -, :':,.willing ba :^::: ":-: : -- l +

- ,. '- il '':''1'l. i tL. -.' ,,,, Ll )lI

2C

HXK

Track left

One loop

Bend anc :: =-:.: - ',- : --. - ' -'trot; shac€ a-: ::: -' '.'-: ::1- :+:of bend

:l _ .v. *1 t.":. ,')-,,-'. u I 1'u-'*-i '-'- \"

3BetweenA&F Working carler e: a:: Willing -1: -'::-::-- :-; -" :' -'

and can:e' :+-:a@ ae4

4 B.--^ -u'^- Quality a' ::-'=' :- j:. :': :::,

circle a:-: - ._'a' '-,i . 1,"-

'lXFil

Quality :' -.:-':' :-: :'::straigh:-::: -- .2J--.

Wllln! :::-::: *:-::l- :-. -,

ofwa.c

KXH

HC

'.'e: -- ,t: ''.'il -* ,ta.

:i6 - -- .=

: t, :-:'--- ,.'

7Free walk on a long rein

Medium walk,)D '2 I_tslwArurworu

: rality and regularity of medium* alk; willing, balanced transitions;

IMXF

Working trot

One loop

:ralityof trot; willing, balanced:aisitioni shape and size of loop;:.anqes of bend

b.59

BetweenA&K Working canter right leac

,i ling, calm transition; quality of trot:rC cantert bend 7 2

:Lality of canter; shaPe and size ofr'cler bend

D'\2'10 E Circle right 20m

11 C Working trot,\ illing, balanced transition; qualityli trot b-5

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B

Before B

Circle right 20m rising trotallowing the horse tostretch forward anddownward

Shorten the reins

:orward and downward stretch overihe back into a Iight contactnaintaining balance and quality of:rot; bend; shape and size of circlesmooth, balanced transitions

f 2

Cl'"{,lr<- y* '1-u\'(\--

13A

X

Down centreline

Halt, Salute

3€nd and balance tn turns:raightness on centreline and n-alt; willing balanced transitionrmobilitv

,\ ,,tit- .f-i.,:

t

Leave arena in walk on a long rein at A

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COLLECTIVE MARKS

Paces (freedom and regularity) b.{ 1

lmpulsion (desire to move forward, elastic ty of the steps, relaxation of theback and engagement of the quarters) G"o 1

t,w LSubmission (attention and confidence; harrony, lightness and ease of the

movements; acceptance of the bridle)

-\/-^/-^-("0 2

OOh/-ltJ- 4/ Or,/- {-ftytn"q .

,la, Dr^l< ^rln n + A.t,Ride/s position and seat; correctness an: e'ect of the aids bi 2

111.,Lyt"-. :r i*,-f, ! ,.1 t r( q4 i.{

ToTA! tlAEI!-L-!!qfti. us Total Penalties

Course Errors | 1't I 2 3'd I Uinrs Total Faults(Cumulative) | -2 I -4(=6)

=,mination I

FINAL MARK

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! You have completed Month 6 of Preliminary/Training level mastery! I can’t wait to share with you next month - Module 3, Month 1 - What to expect in a Novice/First Level dressage horse and the essential warm up at this level.

Remember, in Module 3 you will receive Bonus Video 3 from my Competition workshop as well as a special bonus that’s too top secret to mention here!


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