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Practice Judging

Judging an IPHDA event is different than any other type of judging in that our judges are evaluating the horses and riders on their ability to perform the basic skills needed to be considered a broke horse.

When ever in doubt about an evaluation remember how IPHDA describes a broke horse!

A broke horse will:

Wait for its rider’s cues
Willingly accept and follow those cues

Thing to consider when talking about a broke horse:

Training went into creating that broke horse.
Broke does not imply what type of training or training method was used to create the broke horse

The IPHDA levels are designed to test a horses level of how broke in a progression. This allows every horse and rider to advance their knowledge without skipping any basics education that can cause problems down the road in their quest towards better horsemanship!

When a person says that their horse is broke enough to pass a certain level of PHD, that means they can perform specific basic skills needed at each level of a horses training, while satisfying the IPHDA description of a Broke Horse!

Whether you wish to judge an IPHDA event or only wish to get a better understanding of what our judges are looking for, practice judging an IPHDA event can be educational

Practice score cards, IPHDA 2009 -2010 judges guide, Primary and Secondary patterns and the Competition rules can be down loaded here

Practice video's

If you wish to be considered in the future to judge an IPHDA event please follow the instructions on the documents page.