Kevin Thornton excluded from cagnes after his horse diies

MagicMelon said:
Hmm I think people could be given more credit, I doubt 3 greys would look that identical and usually if you're a fellow rider you would know what horses certain riders generally had. It sounds like he must have laid into the horse at some point so I dont believe the "2 smacks" rubbish, people dont go this mental over 2 smacks (which IMO are unacceptable but the vast majority of horse people think its fine). If he did beat his horse, he deserves to be banned from keeping and riding horses for life, simple. I hope the FEI come down extremely heavily on him (if true)
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SpringArising said:
I don't believe what he said for a second. Sounds like he absolutely hounded the horse.
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Innocent until proven guilty. Lynch mob mentality is extremely low and people should not be judged based on social media.
 
It should be remembered, before denigrating the eye witnesses who are all horsey people, they were present during the incident. None of us on here were.
 
VikingSong said:
It should be remembered, before denigrating the eye witnesses who are all horsey people, they were present during the incident. None of us on here were.
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I feel like there is much more to this than meets the eye, especially as the post mortem and eye witness statements don't add up, people mistook the horse for a different horse etc. which if they are horsey people seems odd.
The post mortem results also seem odd, in that there's no sign of a heart attack, no marks on the horse from whips or spurs and apparently no sign that the horse was even sweating when it collapsed.

It's all just odd, as going by reports from both sides, the whole situation doesn't seem to make sense. I reckon there's more we are not being told somewhere, but it does make you wonder about the rider if people are reporting seeing him whipping/lunging a different horse to exhaustion anyway (even if it wasn't the horse that collapsed and died)
 
VikingSong said:
It should be remembered, before denigrating the eye witnesses who are all horsey people, they were present during the incident. None of us on here were.
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sasquatch said:
I feel like there is much more to this than meets the eye, especially as the post mortem and eye witness statements don't add up, people mistook the horse for a different horse etc. which if they are horsey people seems odd.
The post mortem results also seem odd, in that there's no sign of a heart attack, no marks on the horse from whips or spurs and apparently no sign that the horse was even sweating when it collapsed.

It's all just odd, as going by reports from both sides, the whole situation doesn't seem to make sense. I reckon there's more we are not being told somewhere, but it does make you wonder about the rider if people are reporting seeing him whipping/lunging a different horse to exhaustion anyway (even if it wasn't the horse that collapsed and died)
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The "eye witnesses" are anonymous people who have nothing to fear from being "denigrated". You appear quite happy to denounce a rider based on these witness statements when it appears the evidence doesn't actually back up what they claim to have witnessed. This therefore throws severe doubt on the validity of the statements, even if they did see a horse being whipped as they claim they obviously have managed to mistake the horse so maybe they also mistook the rider.
 
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