1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

a period of 5 days, with a day of rest after the first two events.The final programme consequently embraced :I. Military Competion.Combined team and individual competitions consisting of:1. Long distance ride, 55 km. (33 miles), of which2. Cross country ride, 5 km. (3 miles).3. Individual riding over steeplechase course.4. Prize-Jumping.5. Prize-Riding.Individual competition.II. Prize-Riding Competition.III. Prize-Jumping Competitions.A. Individual competition.B. Team competition.Maximum number of competitors from each nation:in the individual competitions: six (3 reserves),in the team competition, andin the combined team- and individual competition: one team offour men (two reserves), the first three to count.A competitor was allowed to enter not more than two horses, butwas not allowed to ride more than one horse in the same competition.Entries closed the 1 June, 1912.Propositions.As the basis of the propositions there was adopted, from the veryfirst, the scheme drawn up in Sweden in 1907 and which was laidbefore the Meeting at the Hague, together with the plan adopted forthe “Military’’ competition as already held in Sweden for a numberof years past. In addition to this, material was obtained from competitionsheld abroad, and draft propositions were then drawn up andafterwards sent to a number of cavalry officers who were consideredto be authorities in the matter.Military : In drawing up the regulations for this competition, theCommittee was of the opinion that, unlike the other competitions,this event should only be open to officers actually serving, and thatthe riders should be mounted on their service horses, whether thesewere provided by the State or owned by the officers themselves. Thisresolution, however, caused a number of difficulties in drawing upthe propositions, and as, at a number of Military Riding Schoolsabroad, there are special horses, belonging to the State, which areemployed for purposes of instruction, it was determined that suchhorses should not be included in the term “Service horses”. Thequestion of a minimum weight being fixed or not was much discussed.On the one hand it was pointed out that, in such a severe competition,it would be desirable to allow all the horses to compete withouttheir being handicapped by any difference in weight; on the other571