The Interschool Queensland (IQ) Eventing Leaderboard will determine the 2025 IQ State Championships Eventing overall placings and form the selection criteria for the State Eventing Team for the 2025 Australian Interschool Championships.
Eventing is often considered the ultimate test of horse and rider where horses are required to first complete a dressage test, and then complete a cross country course of obstacles in a specified time and then a round of show jumping. Either the cross country or the show jumping may form the last test. The competitions may be staged over 1 to 3 days.
All EA one, two, or three day events anywhere in Australia can be used as qualifying performances for the IQ Eventing Leaderboard. These run under normal Eventing rules, and riders should ride using numbers allocated by the OC. There are no separate IQ Eventing classes at these events.
All results must be from EA Eventing competitions, no Pony Club results will be accepted.
Registration
Those wishing to participate on the IQ Eventing Leaderboard, will need to nominate the rider’s name, horse/s name and height that they wish to be considered on the State team before 1 February 2025. The registration link will be advertised on the Interschool Queensland webpage, social media and included in the IQ newsletter.
2025 IQ Eventing Leaderboard Registrations
Events & Rules
The Eventing calendar can be found via the link below. Eventing is the only Interschool discipline that has age restrictions for classes see EA Eventing Rules below. Interschool only offers classes to 2*. Horses who have competed at higher levels than this are eligible to compete 2* if no higher levels are offered.
Judging & Scoring
In eventing, riders are placed based on the number of penalties they incur over the 3 phases. This means that the rider with the least penalties over all three phases will be the winner. Scoring & judge requirements are as per EA Eventing Rules.
Results & State Team Qualifying Criteria
Overall placings on the IQ Eventing Leaderboard will be 1st – 6th for each level, these awards will be presented at the State Championships.
Queensland Team places will be awarded according to a combination’s average of their best three (3) results within a height (level) during the qualifying period from any EA Eventing competition within Australia.
Results will be updated on a leaderboard which will be used for Queensland team selection.
- These results must be obtained during the period: 1 July 2024 to 14 days before the commencement of this year’s IQ State Championships.
- A fourth result may be used in event of equality.
- Results will not be counted for inclusion on the leaderboard if they do not meet minimum eligibility requirements (MER) in regard to penalties received. This applies to all three phases – Dressage minimum of 55%, Nil Cross Country fence penalties, no more than 75 seconds (30 penalties above the time specified in cross country), a maximum of 16 show jumping faults.
- Only results at the level riders are applying for will be considered, you can choose to ‘move up’ during the season – a combination can place on the Leaderboard at two different heights (levels) but must choose one height (level) for the Queensland Team.
- Riders placed 1st to 4th in each level on the leaderboard will be offered a place on the Queensland Team for that level. If the combination has placed in the top 4 at two levels, the rider must choose one level for the Queensland Team. Each level is a significant step up and results from a lower class cannot be compared with results at the next level. As this is a selection for the Queensland team with riders representing Queensland at a National level, if you change class level during the series, points will not carry up or down. For example: 3 x EvA95cm results in a calendar year – horse/rider combination must have to be considered for EvA95cm State team. They cannot have 1 x EvA80cm and 2 x EvA95cm, must be 3 x EvA95cm results. However, if the combination has not achieved the 3 results at 1* they can still be considered for the EvA95cm State team if horse/rider combination has achieved the 3 x EvA95cm results within the qualifying period.
- A qualifying result must come from within 4 months of the final qualifying period for selection on the Queensland state team to prove fitness of the rider/horse combination.
If a rider has made the State team to compete in both Eventing and CT on the same horse, they must choose only one of the two events. Number of riders selected for the State Team will be a minimum of 4 riders per level, as determined by the current OC of the AIC (Nationals).
| Levels | IQ Eventing Leaderboard | Australian Interschool Championships - Eventing |
| EvQ60 | Yes | No |
| EvA80 | Yes | Yes |
| EvA95 | Yes | Yes |
| CCN1*-S | Yes | Yes |
| CCN2*-S | Yes | Yes |
