Observe - embellish - preserve

In the first edition, the challenges were held at the end of the weekend, after two working sessions. For the second edition, we chose to put them at the very beginning of the weekend, in order to take advantage of the freshness of the horses. Filmed, we then commented and analysed them in the afternoon so that the riders could have a "locomotion assessment" of their horses, which then guided the work sessions of the next day.

Auditors are invited to play an active role during our training sessions: we offer them to note the challenges at the same time as our judges, and to be able to compare their appreciations in the afternoon. We plan to make a "best amateur judge" award during the next challenges and to give it a nice prize!

Videos of the challenges are provided to the riders so that they can keep track of them. They can bring a USB key to get them right away.

Typical course of a weekend

Day 1:
— morning : filmed dressage and jumping challenges
— afternoon: video debriefing

Day 2:
— working sessions on the flat and jumping session

Auditors are invited to judge all the challenges as well, in order to exercise their eye and then to be able to confront their feelings with those of the judges when watching the videos.

An "amateur judge" prize is awarded to the one who has had the closest appreciations to those of our speakers.