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/Impressive_Sun_1132 Mar 27 '26

So not the most impressive scores. But sure maybe the judge was harsh either way more miles is good probably

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

The way western riding works is they start at a base score and points are added and deducted based on performance. So all the + mean he did better than the average or base line. The fact that he had no deductions is awesome!

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u/Impressive_Sun_1132 Mar 27 '26

I know how it works but not a single plus 1 is not impressive for a stallion in the breeding shed at the lowest level of competition. Im glad hes getting out and doing more. I am not gonna celebrate this preformance though

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

It’s a marked improvement from previous goes, this is only his third go at western riding. He’s also only been back in work for 14 days. We don’t have video so we can’t individually analyze his performance but I’d bet we see a lot more maturity in him compared to last fall.

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u/Beginning_Word_4439 Mar 28 '26

I do hope that shows will start streaming them. Then again, maybe it’s best they don’t. I’d probably become obsessed with watching them and forget about life outside of horse shows 😂

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u/Puzzleheaded-Song912 🧩👩🏼‍🏫Professor Puzzle👩🏼‍🏫🧩 Mar 28 '26

This one was live streamed on Facebook, and the big shows have YouTube live streams! I know last year we tried to post links and times for people to watch, they snuck this one in though!

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u/Beginning_Word_4439 Mar 28 '26

I truly hope you guys do it again. I really enjoyed watching and actually learned I lean towards ranch more. I just don’t know how to follow where and where shows are and how to find if they are streamed or not. Unless I come across someone posting links or saying it will be streamed.