While you are preparing your horse for the cross country, fence judges will be going through a briefing where they will be told how to score and judge a fence.

This is what they will be told. (Click Here)

ALL of the fence judges are volunteers and without them YOU cant event.

Some maybe doing it for the very first time others may be very experienced.

There is NO excuse for going off at a fence judge. You can ask them if you have cleared the Jump or to hand you your spectacle's, helmet or your whip if they have fallen but nothing else.

There is plenty of time after you have finished the course to discuss decisions that you may not agree with.

I have not once yet heard a fence judge scream at a rider who makes a mistake at a fence (and riders make plenty) so please be courteous.