Bitless Inc Annual Online Show
1st June - 3rd August 2015
The Show is now closed! Judging has commenced!
Winners will be announced here by the end of August.
The Bitless Inc Annual Online Show is open to any bitless or bridle-less equestrian internationally.
The show includes photo and video classes with Placing Ribbons to 4th Place. The Winners of
each Class are eligible for Ring Champion & Reserve, and Ring Champions are eligible to win
Grand Champion & Reserve.
2015 Online Show Judges:
Amy Curran - (NSW Australia)
Amy owns and operates Aliyah Arabians in the Blue Mountains
of NSW, with her husband and four children. She runs a successful
photography business, and is known as one of the best child and
pet photographers in the state. In her competition career, Amy
competed at a National and Royal Level, and was a qualified
Dressage Judge and NCAS EFA Instructor. She particularly enjoys
teaching children, and they enjoy her encouraging ways.
 Kris Dobbie - (WA Australia)
Kris lives in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. She competed
sucessfully as a teenager, then became a riding school instructor and
breaker/trainer and also trained at the Spanish riding academy El Caballo.
Kris always used different obstacles for training and breaking horses to
keep their minds active and to help with groundwork, so when Horse Agility
was born as a sport, Kris was quick to get involved.. Kris became the
second horse agility judge/trainer in Australia, and was the first Australian
to reach Advanced Level in the Online Competition League, with her pony Bubbles.
Kris' vision is to offer every horse love and even better relationship their their
horse, to ensure a safe partnership with confidence and harmony.
 Chris Hope - (WA Australia)
Chris Hope is orginally from the UK, now living in Western Australia. She
has been a dressage judge both in the UK and in Australia for some time.
In her riding career she evented before moving into pur dressage and trained
her Thoroughbred dressage horse at home in a bitless bridle, only changing
to a bit for a short time to do warm up and competition at medium level. Chris
is a very enthusiastic judge and has provided valuable feedback on the TSAI
training dressage Rules and tests that are being used in this year's Bitless Inc
Annual Online Show.
 Leslie Nichols - (United States)
Leslie Nichols is creator of Equine Liberty Sports™, a step-by-step on-line teaching
program that teaches horse owners all over the world how to teach their horses
Liberty and how to become Liberty handlers. Equine Liberty Sports is the culmination
of many different forces and influences over a 10 year span in Leslie Nichols’ 2nd
career as a horse trainer. Leslie Nichols enjoyed horses as a teenager and returned
to horses in later years, she began a process of self-education on training horses,
using natural horsemanship methods. As she worked and played with her horses in
this still new and radical way, and she soon retired from the advertising and marketing
industry to become a full-time professional trainer.
Click Here to visit Leslie Website.
 Max Pearce - (NSW, Australia)
Max Pearce grew up in Bega NSW and had his first experience at harness driving at
age 8 withhis great grandfather (George Pearce). Max’s passion for all things harness
and carriage driving began in that instant.
An 8 year old Boyd Exell then came along, who, with his brother Kent spent the next
10 years helping Max with his horses after school, on weekends and then every
afternoon after work was spent working with the horses. They were always seen
together at shows and competitions, with Boyd eventually driving Max's pony team in
competitions while Max began to concentrate on Show Driving.
Max has developed Beauwood Stud in to one of the leading carriage driving facilities in
Australia offering coaching and education to both drivers and horses.
Click Here to visit Max's Website.
Sue Lewis (NSW, Australia)
Bitless Inc President, Sue Lewis has spent a lifetime with horses, as a
breaker, trainer and educator, and a horse welfare advocate. Sue has
trained horses to ride and drive, as well as liberty.
Her passion for improving horse welfare standards in sport, competition,
as well as recreationally, lead to Sue's involvement in the founding of
Bitless Inc, and Central Coast Hoof Sports.
Click Here to visit the CCHS Website.
Guest Judges:
Karen Rohlf (USA)
 Karen Rohlf trained for over 20 years in dressage and studied
Parelli Natural Horsemanship directly with Pat and Linda Parelli.
She has trained horses and students to the upper levels of
dressage, represented the USA 4 times on the Young Riders
team, passed her USDF 'L' Education (judge training) Program
test with distinction, and was accepted into the USEF 'r' judge
program.
She now divides her time between traveling the world giving
clinics and training at home at her Temenos Fields in Ocala, Florida.
Click Here to visit Karen's Website.
Avis Senior (UK)
From a young age Avis has felt a deep empathy with horses and her life with horses has
taken Avis from riding ponies truly free as a child to having to 'conform' to tradition as a
teenager. She qualified as a BHSAI in 1994 coaching both freelance and in BHS
approved establishments. In 2011 Avis added the titles Reiki Master Teacher, Equine
Reiki and Reiki Drum Master Practitioner, and Animal Communicator to her resume.
Along with starting, schooling, and rehabilitating horses, Avis has coached riders of all
ages and abilities - from pleasure riders to competition riders. Her passion has been
with riders at grass roots level with the purpose of steering them clear of Dickensian
traditions regarding the handling of horses.
In 2015, Avis released her book 'Horse Riding Choose Your Weapons - an insight into
we, our aids, and our gadgets can become weapons against the horse in an instant' to
bring her teachings to a wider audience. Buy the book Here.
Show Secretary & Gear Checking Steward: Karri Nadazdy (Bitless Inc Treasurer & Marketing)
Special Thanks to Gill Shepherd (Bitless Inc Secretary) for writing the Dressage Tests.
PROGRAM:
- Ridden Equine
      
- Driven Equine/s
  
- Liberty Equine
      
- Bareback and Bridle-less
    
- Leading Rein
- Other Animals Ridden or Driven
 
- Ridden Competitve Equine
   
- Driven Competitive Equine
Showing Champion & Reserve
Sporting Ring (Photos):
- Dressage
          
- Jumping
        
- Trails/Endurance/Trec
         
- Obstacles - Over
             
- Obstacles - Under
    
     
- Mounted Games/gymkhana
    
- Historical/Re-enactment
  - Australian Sports
- American (Western) Sports
 
- European Sports
  
- Team Sports
Sporting Champion & Reserve
Video Ring:
Download courses: Click Here.
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- Dressage - Walk/Trot (Ridden)
     
- Dressage - Canter Included (Ridden)
  
- Freestyle Dressage to music - Walk/Trot (Ridden)
- Freestyle Dressage to music - Canter included (Ridden)
- Driven Dressage - Walk/Trot (Singles or Multiples)
  
- Driven Dressage - Canter Included (Singles or Multiples)
- Showjumping - under 50cm (Ridden)
- Showjumping - over 50cm (Ridden)
- Showjumping - (Inhand or Liberty)
 
- Agility - In Hand
     
- Agility - Liberty
    
- Agility - Ridden
   
- Gymkhana: Strip Poker - the bitless game (Ridden)
- Gymkhana: Strip Poker - the bitless game (Driven)
 
- Gymkhana: Weaving Poles - (Ridden)
- Gymkhana: Weaving Poles - (Driven)
 
- Funniest Equine Videos
     
Video Champion & Reserve
Novelty Ring (Photos): Members Only
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- First Time Bitless
     
- Trick Horse
         
- Longest Mane (or forelock)
      
- Equine Tongues
        
- Equines and their animal friends
        
- Horses in Strange Places
     
- View from Between the Ears
        
- Equine Appreciation (Photography Award)
              
Novelty Champion & Reserve
Show Grand Champion & Reserve
Best Junior Award
Guest Judge's Choice Awards
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