ElleJS
Well-Known Member
I was looking thru the FEI yellow card list on the FEI website and was suprised to see so many professionals on it. Including top pony riders and young riders. They are being caught riding tired horses, abuse of horses, incorrect behaviour and dangerous riding.
It seems crazy that our professionals are being caught doing the very things that are being drummed into us as extremely unprofessional and dangerous. Very shocked!
Anyway I noticed one rider who was given a card for jumping across roping on xc course and it got me thinking to an appaulling incident I witnessed at Houghton Hall 3DE this year.
My mum and I were walking the course when a combination came galloping towards the part of the course we were walking almost out of control. The horse was fighting with its head and the rider was haulling it about, (anyway I can feel for the rider as sometimes I feel like i'm trying to regain control when mine gets rather head strong!) However this was more extreme as she had no control of where the horse was going and went the wrong side of the rope that was guiding the XC track
She then got lost in the rope and couldn't work out how to get back on the XC track so she just galloped her horse at the roping (hoping i presume, that the horse would jump it)- I was totally horrified!!!! Am I wrong in thinking this?
The horse dragged the rope for some 100m before freeing its self and jumped the next fences scarily but with thankfully out incident.
I took note of her name and number as was intrigued to see if she would be penalised for this. Apprently not as she completed the competiton.
Now imo this has to be considered dangerous riding? I noticed the rider is now qualified to ride at advanced level. Scary.
Maybe it was a one off incident but I'm very suprised the fence judge didn't report it.
It seems crazy that our professionals are being caught doing the very things that are being drummed into us as extremely unprofessional and dangerous. Very shocked!
Anyway I noticed one rider who was given a card for jumping across roping on xc course and it got me thinking to an appaulling incident I witnessed at Houghton Hall 3DE this year.
My mum and I were walking the course when a combination came galloping towards the part of the course we were walking almost out of control. The horse was fighting with its head and the rider was haulling it about, (anyway I can feel for the rider as sometimes I feel like i'm trying to regain control when mine gets rather head strong!) However this was more extreme as she had no control of where the horse was going and went the wrong side of the rope that was guiding the XC track
She then got lost in the rope and couldn't work out how to get back on the XC track so she just galloped her horse at the roping (hoping i presume, that the horse would jump it)- I was totally horrified!!!! Am I wrong in thinking this?
The horse dragged the rope for some 100m before freeing its self and jumped the next fences scarily but with thankfully out incident.
I took note of her name and number as was intrigued to see if she would be penalised for this. Apprently not as she completed the competiton.
Now imo this has to be considered dangerous riding? I noticed the rider is now qualified to ride at advanced level. Scary.
Maybe it was a one off incident but I'm very suprised the fence judge didn't report it.