HQ has made some changes due to member feedback to reduce confusion with some re-naming of classes and tests. Another notable change is that gloves will no longer be compulsory for dressage competition or the dressage phase of competitions.
Following feedback and confusion with BRC dressage this year, BRC HQ will be making some name changes which will will come into effect from 1st October 2025.
The first will be the class names, which will change as follows:
Introductory Winter Dressage will change to Grassroots Winter Dressage
Novice Winter Dressage will change to Intermediate Winter Dressage
Intermediate Winter Dressage will change to Open Winter Dressage
By making this change we remove the Introductory and Novice names which are dressage levels and were the main point of mix-up.
The second change will be the BRC Dressage Tests, which, having similar names to the BD tests caused some confusion for riders so we will be renaming the tests as follows:
BRC Prelim 1 will change to BRC Prelim A
BRC Prelim 2 will change to BRC Prelim B and so on
None of these changes will affect the competitions, it will be purely a name change.
27th June 2025