AEL Fences Medal Tests

 

We’ve added an AEL Medal for Intermediate and Open youth riders!! The Medal qualifications are attached and the tests will be found below.

For the 2023-24 season we’ll offer an AEL Medal Class at the AEL National Championships.

  1. Youth riders in the Intermediate or Open level are qualified to ride in the AEL Medal.  This is an additional class to the regular AEL classes.  Host barns may choose to offer the AEL Medal but aren’t required to offer it.

  2. The AEL Medal Class will be offered after the Open and Intermediate classes are held.

  3. The AEL Medal Class will use the rider’s flat and practicum scores from their regular class.  Their fences score will be a fences course created by the host barn and posted the morning of the competition (or added to the team packets and placed in the judge’s packet) and that fences course will be added to their flat and practicum scores.  The fences medal round will use the regular fences scoring grid on a scale of 0-40. The course will be created using the Medal templates for Fences 1-5 found under Fences Scoresheets under Competitions.  The template will have 8 tasks and can use one, two or three (max) of the following fence tests:

    • Halt

    • Trot Fence

    • Hand gallop either along the rail or before a fence

    • Demonstrate two simple changes of lead down the long side

    • Demonstrate a sitting trot

  4. The cost of the Medal class will be $40 in addition to their regular class fees. The fee for the Nationals class will be on the Nationals invitation.

  5. In order to qualify for the AEL Medal class at the AEL National Championships a rider must score two scores of at least 85 points in a season competition in either an AEL Medal class or their regular Intermediate or Open class.

  6. Separate prizes will be awarded for the AEL Medal at Nationals, including a scholarship to Lake Erie College in Painesville, OH