Mini Driving Trial
General Rules
- All animals 4 years and over.
- Grooms must be in ring, wearing gloves and hard hat.
- Grooms not allowed to give assistance including verbal/physical directions in dressage. Contravening this will incur 20 penalties.
- Horses may wear boots or bandages.
- Any harness allowed provided safe and appropriate.
- Each movement marked out of 10.
- Test driven from memory.
- It is an 'Error Of Course' when a competitor performs the wrong movement or when a movement is omitted altogether.
- If a competitor makes an Error Of Course, the judge will stop the competitor by ringing the bell. The competitor must then resume the test from beginning of the movement where the error was made; competitor may check with judge.
- Up to 10 movements per section.
- 5 seconds added for each ball down or error.
- Width between cones 145cm.
