The Team Show jumping Eventing In dressage competition, horse and rider perform complex manoeuvres performed at the walk, trot and canter. Riders give the horses subtle signals to direct them. Each movement is given a mark out of ten by a panel of five judges situated around the arena. For the more difficult manoeuvres, the scores are doubled.
Judges also evaluate the aesthetics of each routine.
At the Olympics, each dressage competitor performs the Grand Prix dressage test, which is the highest level of dressage test and has the most difficult movements. The first round of the dressage is the Grand Prix Test, which doubles as the teams dressage competition and the first round of the individual competition. The top 25 riders and horses progress to the second round, the Grand Prix special, which is a cut down version of the test. Each of the three rides are equally weighted in calculating the combined scores which dictate the medal winners. In the teams competition, the medals are decided by taking the top three scores from each team in the Grand Prix test.