Article
248
INDIVIDUAL
PLACING AND PRIZE GIVING
1.
The placing of an individual competitor is decided according to the table in use
and the instructions of the general programme for the competition or amendments noted on
the course plan.
2.
Any competitor who has no chance of being placed may, at the discretion of the
Ground Jury, be stopped at any time during his round.
3.
Competitors who are unable to complete the first round of a competition have no
right to any prize, except in certain special competitions.
4.
Prize winners of qualifying competitions retain the prizes they have won even if
they decline to take part in the final competition for which they have qualified.
5.
Prize winners should take part in the prize giving ceremony and should do so with the placed
horses. Exceptions, however, for satisfactory reasons, may be made by the Ground Jury. If
a prize-winner fails, without plausible excuse, to take part at the prize giving ceremony,
the Ground Jury, at its discretion, may decide to withhold his prize. Therefore, the
Organising Committee must publish in the schedule and programme the number of prize
winners required to take part in the ceremony. If the schedule or programme does not
indicate the number that must be present, then all competitors placed must attend the
prize-giving ceremony.
6.
With the exception of horse rugs presented by sponsors of competitions, rugs may
not be worn at prize-giving ceremonies. The Ground Jury, under special circumstance, may
however decide to relax the above rule.