EVENTING / ONE DAY EVENT (ODE)
Eventing evolved from the training of cavalry horses. It combines three disciplines/tests in one competition and is run on a cumulative penalty basis. The competitor with the least penalties at the end is the winner.
The first of the three tests is Dressage - the good marks are turned into penalty points so they can be added to any jumping penalties.
The second test is Cross Country, where a course of natural obstacles is jumped in numerical order, inside an optimum time; being over the time, stopping at obstacles or rider/horse falls incurs penalties.
Test three is Jumping one round in an arena, the objective is to jump all the fences clear in numerical order and inside the time allowed. Fences knocked down and refusals incur penalties as does exceeding the time allowed.
The specification for each class - (NZPC 65), (NZPC 80), (NZPC 95) and (NZPC 105) includes the distance of the cross country and show jumping courses, the speed cross country and jumping, the number of jump efforts and the dressage tests etc which can be found in Annex 5 of the Eventing NZ (ENZ) Rule book.
Eventing is a discipline at which NZ has excelled with numerous Olympic and World Championship successes. It is also one of a handful of sports where men and women compete on equal terms and the genuine amateur can compete against a world or Olympic champion.
Rules – for competition, PC uses the rules of Eventing NZ Click here
and the NZPCA Eventing Championship & Area Eventing Trial Regulations
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