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Sorry. Link won’t work. Video doing the rounds showing meadow stables. Sam. With a horse strapped down in the stable as punishment. Unfortunately I can’t share it
 
Stupid, Stupid woman, does she honestly think that the horse is going to associate this abhorrent treatment with barging a gate or whatever it is meant to have done. The poor boy will have horrendously aching muscles. How can she be so thick and cruel.
 
I hate to say it but I had a youth training scheme with a top, well though of trainer of show horses. She did this regularly to her show horses to get them to develop top line. I only lasted a week. I hated it and knew it was so wrong but lots of the other grooms just though it was the norm.
 
silv said:
Stupid, Stupid woman, does she honestly think that the horse is going to associate this abhorrent treatment with barging a gate or whatever it is meant to have done. The poor boy will have horrendously aching muscles. How can she be so thick and cruel.
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fwiw given what the gate looked like and how low the haynet was the chances that he got stuck in one or the other of them are pretty high.
 
hihosilver said:
I hate to say it but I had a youth training scheme with a top, well though of trainer of show horses. She did this regularly to her show horses to get them to develop top line. I only lasted a week. I hated it and knew it was so wrong but lots of the other grooms just though it was the norm.
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Where I kept my pony as a child back in the 1970's there was a woman with a number of show ponies who did the same. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now
 
ester said:
in what way? in that it didn't used to happen a lot more, or that it still happens in showing yards now so isn't 'old'?
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In that tieing a horse down overnight as a punishment for jumping/barging into the wrong field is not the same as some showing/dressage people using side-reins for an hour or so at a time to develop muscle.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
In that tieing a horse down overnight as a punishment for jumping/barging into the wrong field is not the same as some showing/dressage people using side-reins for an hour or so at a time to develop muscle.
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ah well she kept changing her mind on that, it was never overnight, it was 'the rest of the day' then it was for a short period of time as all show cobs and she does it 3x a week to him. So I suspect it might be being said depending on which version of the story they heard.
 
I don't think that the welfare charities can do a whole lot about it, it's seriously unfortunate that she seems untouchable. There have been numerous pages with evidence of doping, vet reports for horses bought from her proving mis-sale, people put in hosp by horses, incorrect passports, horses having to be PTS and none of it has had her shut down.

I wonder if anyone has reported her to HMRC, as I can't find anything on her on companies house..

I would be more inclined however, to email the video to all of the local show grounds and hopefully cut her off from being able to show anywhere.
 
"In that tieing a horse down overnight as a punishment for jumping/barging into the wrong field is not the same as some showing/dressage people using side-reins for an hour or so at a time to develop muscle.

It was sometimes for 3/4 hours but I believe this is a common practice of show people? I think the practice is barbaric what ever the reason tbh
 
She's usually only going to local unaffiliated shows! I think she was saying Champ was TGCA licensed at one point but they said he wasn't.
 
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