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Oh. I was going to say I have no idea... and ... I still have no idea if it's do with xc... how can you technically refuse something? You either refuse or you jump surely...

Sorry, not much help was I, interested to know tho...
 
I think - but I may be totally wrong so don't quote me on this ! It is, for example at a drop fence when they can walk to the edge and then leap off. If the horse takes a step back or dithers to much it can be given a technical refusal. However, as I said I may be totally wrong. I am sure the eventing lot will put us straight
 
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A technical refusal in this case is not actually a refusal to jump but to do with crossing your tracks in order to jump. In the case of Tina Cook, her horse jumped in big at the first element of the water and Tina was unable to steer towards the second element so she pulled him left to avoid jumping, then turned him right to avoid crossing her tracks to get back to the second element to jump it. She did a superb job in my opinion (there are other opinions available), but the horse had run very close to the second element the first time and poor Tina was unable to avoid crossing her tracks.
Bryndu
 
Its a sticky one. In Tina's case a lot of people were angry about it, but its a rule that was created because people were pulling out at the very last minute, when their horse had started to refuse/run out anyway, so it became a kind of cheat...
 
Thats not entirely correct Honey08. The reason penalties were awarded so late in Tina's case is because the horse did not actually present - she was quick enough to realise they weren't going to make it and pull him away. Had it been a stand alone fence she would have been absolutely correct and there would have been no penalities. But the line was labeled 5 a,b,c so they are part of one fence - not each obstable a seperate element. So when Tina circled away it was counted against her even though she did not present. There was an appeal - the details are on the WEG site - but it was unsuccessful.

IMO she made the best job she could have done in a bad situation. You have split seconds to make a decision. She would not have made the b element on the line she was on. At best she would have had a refusal, and at worst they both could have fallen in the water - again. So she kept her horse's confidence by offering him a better line.
 
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