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14: Novice Race Horse to Riding Horse
Equestrian ➤ HorsesSun 25th May 2025
For horses 4 years older, mares and gelding, any height. Riders minimum age 16yo. A novice is a horse in its first two years of affiliated competition* and has not won a Racehorse to Riding Horse class prior to this season's competition. Horses to be ridden in a snaffle bridle only, with a plain cavesson noseband. Novice horses will not be required to gallop. The judge will not ride Novice horses, but will request a short individual show, as defined by the judge(s). Horses to be stripped and shown in hand.
The first and second prize winners in the Novice and the Open classes at each qualifier, will qualify for the final. In the case where the first and/or second placed horse has already qualified, the next placed horse may qualify for the final at the judges discretion.
Combinations may only compete in one section (either Novice or Open) at the final of the Tattersalls Ireland Treo Eile Showing Pathway Series. A Novice combination that has qualified for the final, and also qualifies in an Open qualifier throughout the series, must compete in the Open section of the Showing Pathway Series’ final.
A rider/horse combination that qualifies in the Novice class and subsequently is placed (1st-6th) in the Racehorse to Riding Horse class at the Dublin Horse Show, may not return to compete in the Novice Final. This progression will be rewarded with a ‘wild card’ place in the Open Final.
The final is restricted to the exact rider/horse combination that qualified, with no substitutions permitted