The Savvy Touch Teams Challenge
Class 12:
The Savvy Touch Teams' Challenge
Eventing Auckland will again be running the Savvy Touch Teams’ Derby Challenge in association with the Manukau City Puhinui 3 Day Horse Trial in December 2009.
Riders will be required to jump a total of approximately 15 fences—half cross country and half show jumping/ show hunter type fences. The jumps will be no more than a 1 meter in height.
Entries close with the Secretary on 30 November 2009
Download, complete and return both
The Savvy Touch Teams' Challenge entry form
Send entries to Vicki Lawson, 96 Taniwha Road, R.D. 1, Te Kauwhata
E: vicki@infomedia-ak.co.nz, P: 07 826 7725, F: 07 8267735, M: 021684658
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Our Format
Riders will be required to jump a total of approximately 15 fences—a mixture of cross country, show
jumping and show hunter type fences. The jumps will be no more than a 1 meter in height. Each
team will nominate the order in which the riders will ride so each team number one rider will go then
each teams rider number two and so on.
The course will be up to 1 km long and will be held over very easy undulating ground. For those riders
that have been to the Puhinui Reserve, it is planned to run this event beside the main oval arena
at Puhinui.
Our Purpose
The purpose of this competition is to bridge the gap between the Eventers, Show Hunters, Hunters
and Show Jumpers; to demonstrate a sporting horse’s ability to perform accurately and willingly for
the rider; to be a platform of basic training for any jumping horse and rider; to educate in a natural
progression of experience; to give large and small horses and ponies a more equal playing field, to
eliminate straight jumping lines and increase pace requirements; to encourage disciplined riding style
and technique; to help horse and rider combinations assess their training and progress as they move
towards other disciplines and competitions of their choice.
Conditions of Entry/Equipment/Tack
Horses must be at least 4 years of age
Horses and riders do not need to be registered with ESNZ
Allowed equipment:
- A correctly fitted cavesson or noseband
- Spurs
- Short crop
- Leg boots and or bandages
- Standing or running martingale
- Breastplate
- Any form of snaffle bit where the primary action is on the horse’s mouth, including
corners of the mouth, bars and tongue.
- Pelhams and Kimblewicks if used in their entirety, where the primary action is on the
horse’s jaw. Pelhams must be used with either two separate reins or joiners.
- Double Bridle
- Stud Guards
Equipment not allowed
- A Drop or any kind of noseband below the bit
- Unconventional bits where the primary action of the bit is on the poll, including a leverage action
causing downwards poll pressure ie Butterfly bit, gags, pessoas or Dutch gags, Filcher snaffles,
hanging bits or fixed rein bits.
- Bitless bridle with the primary action on the poll of nose
- Hackamore and Elevator bits
- Unconventional bit used as an artificial turning aid
- German martingales, Market Harboroughs
Judging
There will be 2 judges and judging will be based on style and smoothness.
Horses are judged on their way of going, manners, conformation and appearance as they negotiate a course of
fences. The ideal mount with the ideal jumping form is the front legs nicely tucked and coming together over
fences, forearms at horizontal or above, good use of head and neck. Mount must be willing, and forward movement
throughout the course using a steady, ground covering canter and overall quality of the horse. The horse
and rider should present an overall elegant picture of conformation, way of going and turnout. Judges are supposed
to pace the entry to determine the implied takeoff point in which a perfect jump should be roughly the
same distance from the fence as the fence is high.
Start and Finish: Each competitor is allowed an optional starting and finishing ‘courtesy circle’ without penalty—
one before the first fence to establish pace and one after the last fence to quietly wind down to a walk and
leave the finish area. There will be start and finish flags to assist riders.
Any of the following will result in elimination:
- three refusals or disobedience on course
- fall or horse and or rider
- use of banned substance
- presenting the horse to the fence without the intention of jumping it
- leaving the designated course
Judging will start as the competitor begins as the rider passes the start flags and finishes as the competitor
moves through the finish flags.
Scoring sheets will be available for riders from the judges at the completion of the event.
A score out of 100 is given.
Team Composition
Each team will consist of up to four riders with the best three scores counting.
Individual Competitors
Individuals may compete in the Clinic 42 Open Hunter Derby Classic on the same horse. Entries for the Clinic
42 Open Hunter Derby Classic must be made on the main Puhinui entry form.
Camping/Yarding
Limited camping and yarding will be available on Saturday night. Please complete the request form and send
with your entry.
Prizes
Prizes will be awarded to the top individual within the team event and to each of the top three teams.
Timing
This event will be held on Sunday the 23rd November, 2008 immediately following the conclusion of the
Nicholson Imports Hunt Team Challenge. We estimate the starting time for the Savvy Touch team class to be
approx 1.30pm. Order of teams will be by draw to be advised prior to competition.
For further information contact Kaye Coyne
whitney.dk@xtra.co.nz or 027 224 1979
