AQHA Queen Quiz: Show Rules 400+

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AQHA individually worked: 3 horses junior, 3 horses senior, 4 horses all age.

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A horse may only be exhibited in a class one time, whether select or amateur, no matter the exhibitor.

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No horse may be entered in both the junior and 2 year old western pleasure at the same show.

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Western Pleasure classes that DON'T require moderate extension of the jog

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Ranch Riding is for horses years of age and older.

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Western Pleasure: faults that will be cause for disqualification:

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Ranch Riding: Required maneuvers

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Ranch Riding: OPTIONAL maneuvers:

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Ranch Riding: 1 point penalties:
- Too /per gait
- -bridled
- Out of
- Break of gait at walk or jog for strides or less

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Ranch Riding: 3 Point Penalties:
- Break of gait at walk or jog for than 2 strides
- Break of gait at
- lead or out of lead
- reins
- Out of lead or -cantering more than strides when changing leads
- trotting more than strides when making a simple lead change
- Severe disturbance of any obstacle

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Ranch Riding: 5 point penalty:
Blatant disobedience (kick, , buck, , etc.) - for each

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Ranch Riding: Place below horses performing all maneuvers:
maneuver
maneuver

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Ranch Riding: 0 score:
- illegal equipment including , braided or banded manes, or
- willfull abuse
- major disobedience or schooling

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Penalties for hits or ticks of logs in Ranch Riding will be the same as those in Trail.

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Western Horsemanship is designed to evaluate the rider's ability to , in concert with their horse, a set of maneuvers prescribed by the with precision and while exhibiting poise and confidence and maintaining a balanced, , and fundamentally correct body position.

The ideal horsemanship pattern is extremely precise with the rider and horse working in complete , executing each maneuver with subtle aids and cues.

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Horsemanship Scoring:
____ performance in execution as well as correct horsemanship and use of aid. Excellent horseman that commits a minor fault

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Horsemanship: Minor faults:
- Break of gait at walk or jog/trot up to strides
- Over/under turn up to 1/ of turn

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Horsemanship: Major faults:
- Break of gait at , out of lead or missing lead for 1- strides
- Not stopping within feet of designated area
- Incorrect gait or break of gait at walk or jog for more than strides
- Over turn of more than 1/, but not more than 1/
- Exhibitor obviously looking down to check
- Failure of bottom of boot to be in contact with the pad of the stirrup
- Head carried too
- Head carried too (tip of ear below the withers)
- Over flexing or neck in head carriage so the nose is carried behind the
- Excessive out

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Horsemanship - Severe Faults:
- Loss of or
- Missing a lead for more than strides
- Touching horse
- Grabbing the saddle or any other part of the saddle
- Cueing with the end of the
- at other horses, exhibitors, or judge
- Severe disobedience, or resistance by horse including, but not limited to, rearing or pawing

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Horsemanship: Disqualifications:
- Failure by exhibitor to wear correct in manner
- Willful abuse
- Knocking over the , going off pattern, or working on wrong side of cone
- Excessive schooling or
- Fall by horse or rider
- Illegal use of hands on
- Use of prohibited equipment
- Failure to follow pattern correctly including failure to ever execute correct or where called for
- Overturning more than 1/ of prescribed turn

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Faults scored according to severity, which will be cause for DQ except in Level 1 classes include:
- Head carried too (tip of ear below the withers consistently)
- Over flexing or straining neck in head carriage so the nose is carried behind the consistently

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Exhibitors on rookie classes who go off pattern shall not be disqualified but must always place below exhibitors who don't have a disqualifying fault.

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How many Green western riding patterns are there?

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How many western riding patterns are there?

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Distance of western riding cones down the line: Not less than _ feet; not more than __ feet

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Western riding cones:
- not less than feet from the fence
- to feet width (for crossing changes)

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Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- tick or light touch of log
- hind legs skipping or coming together during lead change
- non simultaneous lead change (front to hind or hind to front)

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Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- hitting or rolling log
- out of lead more than one stride either side of the center point and between the markers
- splitting the log
- break of gait at the walk or jog up to 2 strides

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Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- not performing the specific gait (jog or lope) or not stopping when called for in the pattern, within 10 feet of the designated area
- simple change of leads
- out of lead at or before the marker prior to the designated change area or out of lead at or after the designated change area
- additional lead changes anywhere in pattern (except when correcting an extra change or incorrect lead)
- in pattern 1 and 3, failure to start the lope within 30 feet after crossing the pole at the jog
- break of gait at walk or jog for more than 2 strides
- break of gait at the lope

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Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- out of lead beyond the next designated change area (note: failures to change, including cross cantering). Two consecutive failures to change would result in two 5 point penalties.
- blatant disobedience including kicking out, biting, bucking and rearing
- holding saddle with either hand
- use of either hand to instill fear or praise

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Western Riding: 0 score
- illegal
- willful abuse
- off
- knocking over markers
- completely log
- major refusal (stop and back more than 2 strides or steps with front legs
- major or schooling
- failure to start prior to end cone in Pattern 1
- or more simple changes and/or failures to change leads (except for in novice or rookie)
- failure to start beyond feet of designated area in Patterns 2, 3, 4, 5 and Level 1 patterns 1, 2, 4 (except in novice classes)

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Western Riding - Credits:
- changes of leads, hind and front
- changes of lead near the point of the lead change area
- accurate and pattern
- even throughout
- easy to and control with rein and leg
- manners and
- and fitness

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Trail penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- each tick or contact of a log, pole, cone, plant, or any component of an obstacle

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Trail penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- each hit, bite, or stepping on a log, cone, plant or any component of the obstacle
- incorrect or break of gait at a walk or jog for 2 strides or less
- both front or hind feet in a single-strided slot or space at a walk or jog
- skipping over or failing to step in required space
- split pole in lope-over
- incorrect number of strides, if specified

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Trail penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- incorrect or break of gait at walk or jog for more than 2 strides
- out of lead or break of gait at a lope (except when correcting an incorrect lead)
- knocking down and elevated pole, cone, barrel, plant, obstacle, or severely disturbing an obstacle
- falling or jumping off or out of a bridge or a water box with one foot once the horse has got into or onto that obstacle
- stepping outside of the confines of an obstacle with designated boundaries (ie.. back through, 360 box, side pass) with one foot once the horse has entered the obstacle
- missing or evading a pole that is a part of a series of an obstacle with one foot

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Trail penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- dropping slicker or object required to be carried on course
- first or second cumulative refusal, balk, or evading an obstacle by shying or backing
- letting go of gate or dropping rope gate
- use of either hand to instill fear or praise
- falling or jumping off or out of a bridge or water box with more than one foot once a horse has gotten into that obstacle
- missing or evading a pole that is part of a series of an obstacle with more than one foot
- blatant disobedience
- holding saddle with either hand

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Trail: At least _ obstacles must be used; _ of which must come from the mandatory list, and the other ____ from the optional maneuvers

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Select the mandatory trail obstacles

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Trail: there may be elevated poles at jog and lope for novice classes.

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Unacceptable trail obstacles:
- tires
- animals
- hides
- pipe
- dismounting
- jumps
- rocking or bridges
- water box with floating or parts
- flames, ice, fire extinguisher, etc.
- logs or poles elevated in a manner that permits such to
- ground

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What is the hallmark of the reining horse?

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Reining: neither a no score or 0 score are eligible to place in a go round or class, but a 0 may advance in a multi-day event while a no score may not.

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Reining: The following will result in a ___ point penalty.
- spurring in front of the cinch
- use of either hand to instill fear or praise
- holding saddle with either hand
- blatant disobedience including kicking, biting, bucking, rearing and striking

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Reining: The following will result in a ___ point penalty.
- break of gait
- freeze up in spins or rollbacks
- on walk-in patterns, failure to stop or walk before executing a canter departure
- on run-in patterns, failure to be in a canter prior to the first marker
- if a horse does not completely pass the specified marker before initiating a stop position

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A show may have up to ___ approved reining classes

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Horses can register in both the hackamore/snaffle bit reining class and junior reining class.

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Quiz sobre AQHA Queen Quiz: Show Rules 400+, criado por Mallory McKewen em 01-10-2015.

AQHA Queen Quiz: Show Rules 400+

AQHA individually worked: 3 horses junior, 3 horses senior, 4 horses all age.

A horse may only be exhibited in a class one time, whether select or amateur, no matter the exhibitor.

No horse may be entered in both the junior and 2 year old western pleasure at the same show.

Western Pleasure classes that DON'T require moderate extension of the jog

Ranch Riding is for horses years of age and older.

Western Pleasure: faults that will be cause for disqualification:

Ranch Riding: Required maneuvers

Ranch Riding: OPTIONAL maneuvers:

Ranch Riding: 1 point penalties: - Too /per gait - -bridled - Out of - Break of gait at walk or jog for strides or less

Ranch Riding: 3 Point Penalties: - Break of gait at walk or jog for than 2 strides - Break of gait at - lead or out of lead - reins - Out of lead or -cantering more than strides when changing leads - trotting more than strides when making a simple lead change - Severe disturbance of any obstacle

Ranch Riding: 5 point penalty: Blatant disobedience (kick, , buck, , etc.) - for each

Ranch Riding: Place below horses performing all maneuvers: maneuver maneuver

Ranch Riding: 0 score: - illegal equipment including , braided or banded manes, or - willfull abuse - major disobedience or schooling

Penalties for hits or ticks of logs in Ranch Riding will be the same as those in Trail.

Horsemanship Scoring: ____ performance in execution as well as correct horsemanship and use of aid. Excellent horseman that commits a minor fault

Horsemanship: Minor faults: - Break of gait at walk or jog/trot up to strides - Over/under turn up to 1/ of turn

Ranch Riding: 1 point penalties:
- Too /per gait
- -bridled
- Out of
- Break of gait at walk or jog for strides or less

Ranch Riding: 3 Point Penalties:
- Break of gait at walk or jog for than 2 strides
- Break of gait at
- lead or out of lead
- reins
- Out of lead or -cantering more than strides when changing leads
- trotting more than strides when making a simple lead change
- Severe disturbance of any obstacle

Ranch Riding: 5 point penalty:
Blatant disobedience (kick, , buck, , etc.) - for each

Ranch Riding: Place below horses performing all maneuvers:
maneuver
maneuver

Ranch Riding: 0 score:
- illegal equipment including , braided or banded manes, or
- willfull abuse
- major disobedience or schooling

Horsemanship Scoring:
____ performance in execution as well as correct horsemanship and use of aid. Excellent horseman that commits a minor fault

Horsemanship: Minor faults:
- Break of gait at walk or jog/trot up to strides
- Over/under turn up to 1/ of turn

Faults scored according to severity, which will be cause for DQ except in Level 1 classes include:
- Head carried too (tip of ear below the withers consistently)
- Over flexing or straining neck in head carriage so the nose is carried behind the consistently

Distance of western riding cones down the line: Not less than _ feet; not more than __ feet

Western riding cones:
- not less than feet from the fence
- to feet width (for crossing changes)

Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- tick or light touch of log
- hind legs skipping or coming together during lead change
- non simultaneous lead change (front to hind or hind to front)

Western Riding penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- hitting or rolling log
- out of lead more than one stride either side of the center point and between the markers
- splitting the log
- break of gait at the walk or jog up to 2 strides

Western Riding - Credits:
- changes of leads, hind and front
- changes of lead near the point of the lead change area
- accurate and pattern
- even throughout
- easy to and control with rein and leg
- manners and
- and fitness

Trail penalties. All of the following are subject to a ____ point penalty:
- each tick or contact of a log, pole, cone, plant, or any component of an obstacle

Trail: At least _ obstacles must be used; _ of which must come from the mandatory list, and the other ____ from the optional maneuvers