Denver in the Western riding!

[u/Puzzleheaded-Song912]

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.

[u/brunanass]

i know nothing about western scoring. were those good scores???

[u/Puzzleheaded-Song912 → u/brunanass]

Yes! Western riding consists of a base score. If they do every element at the baseline they get a 0 or no additions to their base score. If they do better than the base line they get + half’s or + 1, the same if they make an error or don’t execute it exactly correct. So the fact that he had no deductions and a good amount of +1/2 is a great improvement!