B level, M level, Z level, and ZZlevel!
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HelenF
08 Apr 2011 13:10
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Lots of dressage horses are advertised with a "level" . Well I've trawled the web in vain to try to find out what the various levels represent. Can anyone out there enlighten me, please?
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Horse Hero Guru
08 Apr 2011 14:29
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Hi Helen
The levels you refer to are the stages in dressage training/tests. In Britain the levels from the lowest to highest are: Introductory (simple walk, trot and circle work),
Preliminary,
Novice,
Elementary,
Medium,
Advanced Medium,
Advanced, Prix St Georges,
Intermediare I,
Intermediare II
and Grand Prix.
Horses receive grading points for their score in affiliated competitions and these determine at what level they compete. A horse cannot compete at a lower level than the one at which they are graded unless they have been officially downgraded.
Of course to add to the confusion a horse can have been trained to do all the movements required for certain level of test (eg they are working at medium) whilst still being eligible to compete at a lower level as they have not yet scored high enough to get the grade points.
Hope this helps – of not, go to British Dressage and read the rule book!
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Andrea Sexton
08 Apr 2011 15:55
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Hi,
The levels you mentioned in the title come from the Dutch KWPN test levels. They don't exactly correspond to the UK dressage test levels but this is basically what the equivalents are:
The B is equivalent to UK prelim/novice level, L is like elementry, M like an easier medium, Z1 is a hard medium and Z2 is like advanced medium. ZZ light is like UK Advanced, ZZ heavy is an easy PSG test. Does that answer your question?
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HelenF
08 Apr 2011 16:38
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Thank you Andrea,
This is a great help. Now I can work out what the various levels relate to in BD terms
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