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The Bears want you to know. . .

Teddy Bears Picnic is a fun, low-key schooling show.  You don't have to be a member of the sponsoring driving club but you and everyone who comes with you has to sign a release.

Dressage, Cones and Marathon mostly follow ADS rules - espescially the rules related to safety!

We SRICTLY ENFORCE the pace rules for each level in each phase.

But there are differences:

  - The event is driven as a continous drive: Starting with Dressage and going immediately to Start of Cross-Country.

  - No Cones Arena:  There are Cones Patches near most hazards on the Cross-Country track and near the End.

  - TBP scores Training hazards as part of the training experience so that our competitors can begin to compare with others.

  - Judges are not bound by the ADS 30-day rule for instructor/student activity.

  - The Teddy Bear Trot class has Fun Tasks instead of Hazards and is a whimsical country drive with it's own rules. 

  - We do not use Elimination very often - we give you penalties instead. But unsafe driving will get you Eliminated! ...      

  - Cross-Country only gives course penalties for:

...     Groom Down          Driver Down         Break in Pace

...    Exceeding Cross-Country course Time Allowed.

...    Being under the Minimum Time.

...    But unsafe driving will get you Eliminated!

This is a fun show - not a serious competition!!  So please come to have fun!