Modern Pentathlon horses

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Anyone been watching the showjumping phase of the Modern Pentathlon? I feel so sorry for all the athletes and I hope there is a strongly-worded complaint about the horses they have been given to ride. What a truly appalling selection of untrained rubbish . . . . .
 
But some of the riding is awful
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They're kicking the horses into a fence when they are half a stride wrong, and then whacking them for refusing..not nice to watch!
 
i feel so sorry for the horse i think i have only seen 1 person who can half ride imo the horses are ever so honest to do aswell as they are doing with those hands and legs of the rider and the wrong stride into each fence
 
Sorry if someone has already asked this somewhere else - but there seems to be a lot of people that get a refusal at a particular jump and then they miss it out and go on to the next one - surely they should be eliminated for this?
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Anyone been watching the showjumping phase of the Modern Pentathlon? I feel so sorry for all the athletes and I hope there is a strongly-worded complaint about the horses they have been given to ride. What a truly appalling selection of untrained rubbish . . . . .

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totally agree...

straight from Sha-Tin, I should think...
 
Whilst I think the M Pentathlon is a superb sport and is obviously one of the originals, I don't see how it can continue in the Olympics. Every four year athletes tune themselves to the very peak of fitness, to have their medals decided by crap horses who won't jump. I know that some of the riding is also shocking, but there is a limit.

The sport has become a joke, sadly.
 
I believe many of the horses are grade B british SJers....if they aren't good enough to jump a good horse then they will lose their medals...
 
No, the horses weren't good, but then neither were many of the riders!
I felt most would have benefitted from running martingales, and the way they were used to being ridden is far from in a trained way of going, that much was obvious.
I think had they added in a 30 % style and performance mark it would have made it possible to lower the height of the fences to around 2' 9", plenty big enough for the quality of the riders. They would have then 30% to award to the riders who could ride and mark the others accordingly.
It doesn't do the sport any credit seeing riders as bad as we have, and our UK team stood out as "proper" riders for me.
The sport is about all round excellence, not the ability to get round a course of fences, so taking style into account should be a part of it to remove the kamikaze riders...
 
The horses would have been better provided they were with a carm rider who knew what they were doing and were in a more controlled atmospher were there were not thousands of people shouting and laughing. All of the horses are choosen months in advance and have to of competed to a certain level and be fairly easy to ride before they are even selected.
 
that male rider is appalling. the horse runs out the same way every time, he has no clue how to correct it, the few it did jump he hung onto its mouth horribly (no wonder it chucked in the towel!), and he seems to think that the faster the approach, the more likely it is to jump... yeah, right, that'll work.
poor horse.
 
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Anyone been watching the showjumping phase of the Modern Pentathlon? I feel so sorry for all the athletes and I hope there is a strongly-worded complaint about the horses they have been given to ride. What a truly appalling selection of untrained rubbish . . . . .

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Sorry but I think that's completely unfair. I've only watched a couple of the mens rounds and a few of the womens, but although the horses aren't champions, I honestly can't really see anything wrong with them.

The horse one woman rode was lame behind to the point of being disunited all the way and hopping by the last fence, and it still jumped every fence with only 3 or so down - plenty of horses would have chucked the towel in. The horses seem like honest competent jumpers who are jumping nicely when not ridden by complete novices.

There are plenty of very good horses I know that simply would not jump at all being ridden the way some of them have been, hauled in the mouth and ridden horribly unbalanced into pretty substantial fences.
 
Poor poor poor poor poor poor horses!!!!!
1.20 is a big course to be fired into and missed at.. you only have to jump one or two fences at that hight like that, firing and missing, then catching the horse in the mouth, because it has put in a huge effort, before it'll through the towel in!!!

Not crap horses at all!!
And the riding wasn't as bad as it ended up being.. it got that bad cos the riders were all out of their depth!!! you can't make such drastic mistakes at that level...

Loved the little horse Katy Livingstone rode.. she missed a few times at the start of the round, it helped her out.. then she left it alone, and it ended up jumping a lovely round!!
 

Granted some of the riding was pretty **** but the horses are **** too...all ex racers re trained by chinese riders especially for the event...not seasoned, proven show jumpers at all.

Now stick a nervous rider on a less than adequate horse and 'ta da'!! Look what happens....
 
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