b) Excessive jawing, opening mouth or head rising on
stop;
c) Lack of smooth, straight stop on haunches bouncing or
sideways stop;
d) Refusing to change leads;
e) Anticipating signals;
f) Stumbling;
g) Backing sideways;
h) Knocking over markers.
96.11 Faults against the rider to be scored accordingly, but not
to cause disqualification:
a) Losing stirrup;
b) Any unnecessary aid given by the rider such as
unnecessary talking, petting, spurring, quirting, jerking
of reins, etc.
c) Failure to run circles or figure eights within the markers
is not considered a fault depending on arena conditions
and size; however, failure to go beyond markers on
rollbacks and stops is considered a fault.
96.12 A show may have up to three (3) approved reining
classes.
a) If three (3) reining classes are to be held at a show,
they will be the following:
i) senior reining shown with bit;
ii) junior reining shown with bit;
iii) hackamore/snaffle bit reining (five-years-old [5] and
younger, shown with hackamore or snaffle bit);
No horse can be entered in both junior bit and
hackamore/snaffle bit reining classes at the same
show.
b) If two (2) reining classes are to be held at a show, they
will be the following:
Senior reining shown with bit;
Junior reining shown with either a bit, hackamore or
snaffle bit at the discretion of the exhibitor.
c) If only one (1) reining class is to be held at a show, it
will be the following:
Reining-all ages - horses six-years-old (6) and older
must be shown in bit; horses five-years-old (5) and
younger may be shown in either bit, hackamore or
snaffle bit at the discretion of the exhibitor.
96.13 Tie breaker, for first place only, as per NRHA rules.
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