Tag: Grade IV

Region 3 rider, Elizabeth W., shares the story of the PRE colt she bought and imported after an accident left her unable to continue her career as a hunter jumper, and the new goals she's chasing with him as an aspiring para-dressage team!

Spend enough time in the dressage world and you’ll hear “she’s a Grade II Para Equestrian”, or “he’s riding the Grade V Introductory Test A”. But what do these grades mean? Let’s look at how the FEI and USEF (who has adopted the FEI Para Equestrian Classification Rules and Para Equestrian Manual for Classifiers as the National Policies and Procedures for Classification at the National level) breaks down the Para Equestrian grading system.