Any wild horse starts with three bars, and those bars are not equatable to a trained horse's three bars. You need to go based off of the training sessions, not the number of bars they have.

So how do you recognise that a horse has levelled off? Let's say he got 4th in dressage on the third day of showing this week. Should I assume that next week it'll level off and I shouldn't show him on Monday or do I still show him for another week ?

If he's level 2 and you enter him in dressage if he's still level 2 the next week show him again as he will likely do well. It displays the levels in the training box. Once he gets to level 3 in dressage it will take another 6-8 weeks for him to place well again.

Would it be then a good idea not to train him on Monday but instead first show 3 times and only then train? I'm thinking that training before showing on Monday might push him into 3rd bar too soon and deprive me of another chance of getting the wins.

It depends on how well he did in dressage. I don't mean his placing but his showing score. Usually a horse is bound to level up when it has a lot of 100%-scores in dressage or 0 faults in jumping or cross country.

So if your horse placed 3rd with a score of 70% I'd assume there was some luck involved. It was competing against weak horses. If it places 3rd with a score of 100%? Then it's quite possible it'll level up after another training. How soon a horse levels is however also depending on the horse's individual strength. I've had horses level up even though they had never placed with 100% score/ 0 faults and other scoring first places for two weeks before they levelled.

Wild horses don't level any way different than lined horses. They just start at lv 2 eventing as they're also at least 2 years old. They still need 5-7 weeks of training to be competitive for the first time.

Horses can level up at any time, not just after training. You may elect not to train on Monday, but the horse may still level up all the same.

Thank you. This helped a lot :)

I've got another question:

Last three dressage show results looked like this (order from oldest to newest)

#1 92.03%

#1 99.61%

#2 100.00%

Now, the last result displays in brown in "easy show enter" section of the barn. Does it mean that I definitely douldn't show in dressage today ?

I'd have expected this result to be displayed in green since the horse got 100% after all...

If the writing is brown, then the horse levelled up and you should definitely not show it today.