suestowford
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Yes, the many horse falls were hard to watch. Also there seemed to be trouble all round the course. It was a very tough course.
I've never been a huge fan of eventing to be honest but I had the same kind of thoughts. Is it right to put horses through this kind of thing in the name of sport? I'm not sure.....Yesterday has me teetering in the edge of the rabbit hole about what we inflict on horses for our enjoyment...
The falls, the bits (hands!), the (tight) noseband, the spurs, the whips (Julia Norman stood out to me on bbc coverage) and the hard hits (mainly stifles and fetlocks) from solid fences. All for our enjoyment 😒 😬 🙈
Same I don’t get it. Watching on MPs link on iPad now instead of big tvIf the BBC want to do interviews and testimonials why can't they start before the jumping, I don't want to miss actual jumping to watch people talking 😡
On the reduction in the use of martingales there where some horses where a martingale would have made their experience more pleasant.
How come they announced the First Timer award for Sebastien Cavaillon (61) when Ariel Grald (57.7) finished in front of him according to bdwp.co.uk?
honey08, i agree re the riders who had problems should have been pulled up, one of the horses that really crashed into one of the fences should not have continued IMO, he was not presented this morning and the rider said he was a little sore on his stifle and the horses welfare was the most important thing.....what tosh, if he had been thinking of the horses welfare he would have retired,not continued over a huge course, when he pulled up at the end i could see it was lame on a hind but he bought it back to walk very quickly....another who had a crashing fall was buck davison, at least he couldnt continue as he was on the floor... he should know how to approach a fence in the correct manner by now, he is nowhere near as good as his dad was....
i notice that none of the really bad falls were shown on bbc2, burghley needs to pull its socks up for next year and not allow such big spreads one after the other without a let up.. i know it is a 5 star but some of the riders shouldnt have been there....