Common Canine and Equine Performance Events

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Common Canine and Equine Performance Events
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Why Is This Important?

• Converse intelligently with our clients
• Respond intelligently during our equine
  ambulatory rotation
• Filling out legal documentation
• Likely performance related injuries
• Performing pre-purchase exams
• Vets are often on call or on site for these events

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English Riding
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Western Riding
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Show Jumping/Jumpers

• Many levels of competition
• Horses clear large obstacles
• Winning based on speed and accuracy

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Hunters

• Based on the horses movement and ability
• Hunter under saddle
• Hunter over fences
• Hunter hack
• Pleasure

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Equitation

• Based on riders position and control
• Medal classes

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Dressage

• Riders perform a pre-set test alone in the ring
• Upper levels include such movements as the
  piaffe, passage, and the pirouette

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Combined Training/Eventing

• Dressage
• Cross country
• Show-jumping phase
• Individual or team events

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Endurance

• Horse and rider travel 50-100 miles per day
• Health and fitness of the horse is of the utmost
  importance
• Riders may dismount and jog alongside the horse

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Flat Racing

• May involve Thoroughbreds, Arabians, or Quarter
  Horses
• Thoroughbreds are the most popular in the United
  States
• Triple crown

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Steeple Chasing

• Popular in the UK
• Horses raced over a series of obstacles
• The Grand National is the most well known race
• Falls of horse and rider are common

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Harness Racing

• Standardbreds pull a cart called a sulky
• One of the more well known races is the
  Hambletonitan

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Vaulting

• Gymnastic tricks on horseback
• Individual, pair, or team competition

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Combined Driving

• Three phases
• Dressage
• Cross-country
• Cones course

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Polo

• Played at a gallop
• Horses are ideally 15.1 hands
• Hit the willow ball through goal posts
• Divided into 7 ½ minute intervals called chukkas
• 4-6 chukkas per match

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Reining

• Olympic sport in 2004
• Western attire
• Perform specified patterns
• Horse may spin 360 degrees, perform sliding
  stops, or other maneuvers

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Rodeo/other Western Events

• Bronc riding
• Steer wrestling
• Cutting
• Barrel racing
• Pole bending
• Calf roping

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Fox Hunting

• Began in England to help landowners control the
  fox population which killed their sheep and
  poultry
• The fox is rarely caught or killed today
• Members may drag scent for the hounds to follow
  over a set course beforehand

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Field Trials

• Competitive events
• Earn points toward field championship
• Eligible participants
• Pointing breeds
• Retrieving breeds
• Spaniels
• Beagles, Bassets, Dachshunds

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Hunt Tests

• Non-competitive events
• Earn qualifying scores based on performance of a
  skill set
• Eligible Breeds
• Pointing Breeds
• Retrieving Breeds
• Spaniels

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Herding Trials and Tests

• Trials competitive event
• Tests compared to performance standard
• Ability to work cattle, sheep, ducks, and goats
• All herding breeds, Samoyeds, Rottweiler

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Tracking

• Tests dogs ability to follow a sent
• All breeds are eligible to participate
• Pass/Fail
• Titles
• TD
• TDX
• VST
• CT

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Obedience

• Tests dog ability to obey commands
• Open to all breeds
• Qualifying scores earned and placements given
• National Obedience Invitational
• Titles
• CD
• CDX
• UD
• UDX
• OTCH

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Agility

• Test of speed and accuracy over obstacles
• Standard
• Jumpers
• Open to all breeds
• Qualifying scores earned and placements given
• Many titles are awarded
• National Agility Championships and World Team
  Competition

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Conformation

• All recognized pure bred dogs
• Judged against a breed standard
• Earn points toward Championship
• Very Subjective
• Junior Showmanship

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Conformation continued

• Sporting upland hunters, retrievers, flushers
• Working guarding, mushers, stock protectors
• Terrier vermin hunters
• Herding stock drivers

• Hound coon hunters, rabbit hunters, pack
  hunters
• Toy lap dogs, companions
• Non-Sporting all breeds that dont fit into
  other groups

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Conformation again

• Best of Breed
• Group Competition
• Best in Show
• AKC National Invitational
• Westminster Kennel Club

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Best In Show

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Questions?

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References

• www.akc.org
• www.ukcdogs.com
• www.usdaa.com

• Hartley Edwards, Elmyn, The Ultimate Horse Book
• Mackay-Smith, Alexander, Encyclopedia of the
  Horse
• www.equestrian.org
• www.poloconnect.com
• www.uset.com