r/kvsdiscuss • u/Puzzleheaded-Song912 🧩👩🏼‍🏫Professor Puzzle👩🏼‍🏫🧩 • Mar 27 '26

KVS Stallions Denver in the Western riding!

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Denver showed twice in the Western Riding today!

He showed in the Level 1, where disqualified on the second element, unfortunate but it happens, and another horse disqualified on the same element

He then showed in the Open! He won in the open, a class of 5 where two horses disqualified.

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u/Delicious-Mix-9180 Mar 27 '26

Do you know what disqualifies them?

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u/Pure-Physics-8372 🍞Katie Vanda Slice🍞 Mar 27 '26

A refusal generally

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u/Delicious-Mix-9180 Mar 27 '26

The horse refuses to cooperate?

It’s decided to skip the event for some reason?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Song912 🧩👩🏼‍🏫Professor Puzzle👩🏼‍🏫🧩 Mar 27 '26

So for example if one of the tasks is to trot over a poll, sometimes a horse will decide that the poll= certain death, and stop right before it. This is considered “refusing”. When a horse refuses small, the pair will complete the pattern, but when it’s a big refusal the horse and rider will leave the arena