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Scoring
This is the basis for the whole system (while only a part of what earns a win in shows). Horses must be scored to show. Scoring horses that you don't intend to show has advantages too. Point for foals with scored parents are figured with the parent or parents scores...so you can breed with strengths and weaknesses in mind. These scores will not have any bearing on how a horse will perform in realistic racing, so you need not be concerned about that should you wish to race a foal before or after (or both!) it's showing career.
Scores
are numbers
between 11 and 20 (20 being the absolute best, 11 being closest to average that
a show horse can get) divided into two categories HALTER and
PERFORMANCE.
Each of these are divided into
subcategories: (acceptable abbreviations in ())
HALTER:
PERFORMANCE
There are two ways to get scores for your horses, both of them involve contacting an Official Roller (OR) with the following information on the horse(s) you wish to have scored. (No more than 20 at a time.) Do NOT send the same horse to more than one roller.
Name of horse
Age (aging horses
only!)
Breed
Gender
Sire x Dam
Name of owner (yourself)
Official Rollers: Sue (do not send the same horse to more than one roller)
If your horse does not have scored parents, just send the above information.
If your horse does have scored parents then you need to include the scores with the sire and dam (or whichever is scored). It is also a MUST to include them with EACH horse to be scored, to save wear and tear on the roller going back and forth. It should look like this:
Name of horse
Age (aging horses
only!)
Breed
Gender
Sire
Halter: H 12 B
13 L 15 M 16 T 14 C 14
Perf: S 16 A
14 E 18 R 19 U 15 F 14
Dam:
Halter H 16 B 19
L 20 M 13 T 20 C 17
Perf: S 15 A 19
E18 R 15 U 12 F 13
Name of owner (yourself)
(Scores are simly there as examples) Note: Halter Total, CoM don't need to be given as a foal's scores are not figures on these things. Motion in Performance is carried over from Halter, so it won't be refigured for Perf. It's fine to include these things, they just won't be taken into account, and rollers won't be doing the math for you.
The O.R. will return your scores to you.
If your horse had one or both parents scored, all that remains is for you to register your horse and create a show "card" to be ready to show!
If your foal did not have scored parents then you get to assign the scores to the subcategories. You MAY NOT move scores from Halter to Performance or vice versa. You will receive 6 scores for Halter and 6 for performance. You will notice that there are more than six categories in each.
HALTER
The HALTER TOTAL subcategory: add all of the halter scores EXCEPT the Charisma score
PERFORMANCE
The MOTION
subcategory is carried over from the Halter Motion subcategory
The CONFORMATIONAL MEAN subcategory: Add the first
three categories in Halter (Head/Neck/Shoulder + Body/Back/Topline + Legs) and
divide by 3. Go out to the
second placing (15.33 for example) Round the number. (i.e.
.33333 would be .33, .666666 would be .67)
Example:
Bar Pretty
1994 Quarter
Horse colt
(Dudestud x Prettymare)
Somebody
Somewhere
Scores returned:
Halter:
11 15 20 16 15 14
Performance:
15 13 14 18 17 16
Scores assigned:
HALTER:
H - 15 B -
14 L - 16 M - 15 T - 11 TOT - 71 C -
20
PERFORMANCE
S - 13 A - 16 E -
14 R - 18 U - 15 F - 17 M - 15 CoM -
15
Once scores are assigned, they cannot be changed around. We will be allowing, especially while we start up, a very limited number of rerolls and rescores.
Things to think about
when figuring scoring:
what is your vision of the
horse? What are it's strengths? What, if you have a breeding program and
you're scoring a colt or filly, are you breeding for? Eventually you'll
want the best you can have in everything, but you have to start somewhere.
The above example has the best he can have in Charisma...meaning he has "spark"
and "presence". He's reasonably good in body conformation and motion, but
not very "typey" for his breed...which means that he's well put together but
might look a bit less like a Quarter Horse than others in the ring.
Under performance he
won't be the fastest horse in the ring, but is very trainable, has good agility
and forward motion, and so would do best in classes where those are important
(what is important in which classes will be covered elsewhere in the pages, and
may take some time to work out once we start showing, and is one of the reasons
we will be allowing for a little rescoring until we can have clear guidelines
for people.)
Keep a record of your scores! And once you have scored horses for parents, use them, and let others know about your scored stallions and mares!
Now, you need to register your horses!
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9/22/02