How fucked up is this as an event?
The first day is twatting about making your horse trot round in a circle, go backwards, parallel park and then complete a three-point turn, and you appear to get anything from 30 "penalty points" to about 50.
The next two days are the real meat and drink for the spectators, the eventing course leaping over fences and hedges and into ditches, and then the show jumping, which is pretty much more of the same except in an arena.
But the last two days, someone can actually get no more penalty points at all! It's like 2 points per second for time on day two, and 4 points for fences down on day three.
Hardly seems to be fair, in a "three-day" event. If this was rally driving, it would be like giving the drivers 30 to 50 penalty points for how well they'd parked arriving at the race, then just letting them actually race and saying "oh, well, you get an extra 8 points for finishing fifth".
Are there any horsey OTFers who can explain to me why you lot countenance this apparent madness?
The first day is twatting about making your horse trot round in a circle, go backwards, parallel park and then complete a three-point turn, and you appear to get anything from 30 "penalty points" to about 50.
The next two days are the real meat and drink for the spectators, the eventing course leaping over fences and hedges and into ditches, and then the show jumping, which is pretty much more of the same except in an arena.
But the last two days, someone can actually get no more penalty points at all! It's like 2 points per second for time on day two, and 4 points for fences down on day three.
Hardly seems to be fair, in a "three-day" event. If this was rally driving, it would be like giving the drivers 30 to 50 penalty points for how well they'd parked arriving at the race, then just letting them actually race and saying "oh, well, you get an extra 8 points for finishing fifth".
Are there any horsey OTFers who can explain to me why you lot countenance this apparent madness?
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