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Originally Posted by bubblegum I have ridden english all my life and i have never heard of the term english pleasure, i know of dressage and show jumping, thats about all that goes on here and maybe the odd hack although i have never seen anyone around me going for a hack. |
Simplest way to explain it is it's a type of showing class, like a ridden hunter, or working hunter class, the judging is slightly different than at showing classes over here, they use slightly different tack - I think I'm right in saying that in America they use standing martingales in equitation classes, whereas you wouldn't here.
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Originally Posted by bubblegum great, ha still getting used to gait and stuff, its all different lingo on here so its taking me a while to understand it have to keep googling what ye mean. ill get there but i truely never realised how many different types of english riding there was in america, and that they dont even do those classes in england or ireland |
There are showing classes in North America for the breeds that have 'extra' gaits beyond the usual walk, trot and canter - that you wouldn't see over here cos we don't have those breeds or ride like that