Inspection information
I have been confused with inspection and grading results so I have asked for clarification of them. I assumed that the inspection results are all relative to location (ie: Russia, North America, Europe), but I have been told they are all graded on equal scales. Here is the information I received of Tatiana Riabova of VNIIK from Natasha Pontecorvo. I have posted it in case someone else is interested.
Inspection results include: measurements, type, conformation, and preferably the movements. The judge grades a horse “as-is”, how the horse looks at that moment when they are inspected.
For example in 2009: Gerald 7,0 – 9,0 160-168-183-20,0
Below is the file with Grading that Tatiana made after the Inspection. Among other horses you can see Gerald: prearranged 1 class 1 Category
The Grading includes:
1.parentage (includes all the relatives with their results)
2. type
3. measurements
4. working-sportive ability (includes participation in championship, show, movements, etc)
5. Quality of the foals.
Because Gerald was young than (2006) he could not show his sportive results, nor could he show his foals results and his parentage wasn’t set as his sire Arim wasn’t yet graded as a breeding stallion (a stallion can get grades as a breeding stud after ten foals on the ground).
Now in 2011 Gerald’s type has improved and he competes in sport and does a lot of showing. Arim has also been graded as a very good breeding stud (he already has 10 foals on ground and they are very high level) so parentage of Gerald will go higher, his sportive ability will go much higher, and his class and categories could change a lot. Next time he will be graded higher.
Sometimes it happens that a horse who was very good as a filly or a colt became worse than they were as a foal. For example, Enchik who was a champion, and he is still very-very typey, didn’t grow much, and his class and category came very down.
When Dr. Riabova makes an Inspection tour she grades sometimes a horse different a bit to compare to the last time. A horse may not be feeling well or injured, lost weight, etc.) But as usual it’s all the same.
She NEVER makes differences between America, Europe, Russia or Turkmenistan horses…
But, if you see a horse, and you know that his type is around 7.0 – you sometimes write 6.9 and sometimes 7.0 !!!!
