Now This Really Is A Shocking Display.....

I watched and it made me feel sick. Poor horse. Relieved to hear the tannoy reprimand and call him straight to judge's box.
I hope the penalties are very severe. As others have said, if this is done openly, what the heck is going on behind closed doors?
 
Wow nasty nasty piece of work, he doesnt deserve to sit on another horse ever again. Thankfully he has already been dumped by one sponsor, hopefully all follow suit and nobody send him their horses. He deserves an immediate lifetime ban IMO. I really hope the horse is taken away from him :( Ridiculous apology "I really care about my horses" - how can anyone say such rubbish after that.
 
The usual deafening silence from the BSJA and the FEI.Not even the usual platitudes of Horse Welfare being being the most important thing to us.I will no longer go to shows to watch things like this.
 
eahotson said:
The usual deafening silence from the BSJA and the FEI.Not even the usual platitudes of Horse Welfare being being the most important thing to us.I will no longer go to shows to watch things like this.
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I think they are probably hoping it just gets brushed under the carpet. I have to say, I’m surprised this hasn’t been more widely shared on FB. Considering some of the other things that have gone viral, it’s pretty bad.
 
meleeka said:
I think they are probably hoping it just gets brushed under the carpet. I have to say, I’m surprised this hasn’t been more widely shared on FB. Considering some of the other things that have gone viral, it’s pretty bad.
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I think this is far worse than many of the things that have gone viral, and I'm even surprised at the relative lack of reaction on HHO if I'm honest. I thought there would be pages and pages of comments by now.

Have the BHS made a statement yet, or are they not bothering this time?

Some people on here are probably old enough to remember Sylvia Barnes from when she was judging BSJA and may recall her shredding a well known competitor or two from the judge's box when they got whip happy, or indeed did anything else out of order. We need a few more like her.
 
I cannot believe there haven’t been FEI sanctions taken, I’m naively hoping that this is because they are considering bigger action rather than ‘just’ a yellow card.

The flack OT took and the American took, whilst for sure disciplinary matters I don’t argue, but nowhere near the explicit horse abuse that this is.
 
Wow that makes for seriously uncomfortable watching, and I couldn't watch with sound either.

I'd be really interested in the governing bodies reactions to this as it's got to be one of the worst in recent years. Hopefully causes a LOT of controversy as trumps the OT/US dressage rider by a mile.

I also think the relevant welfare authorities should get involved.
 
eahotson said:
The usual deafening silence from the BSJA and the FEI.Not even the usual platitudes of Horse Welfare being being the most important thing to us.I will no longer go to shows to watch things like this.
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I wonder if its because it wasn't on British soil at a higher profile televised show? No excuse, its not as if this hasn't gone on a fair few social media sites. Awful behavior and I think it needs to be shared as much as possible so that people see it and the governing bodies have to take action.
 
I've emailed them all too. It says on YouTube he's got a two month ban? Surely not enough! No point just moaning about it on here, we need to add our voices to the protest against such blatant cruelty.
 
My reply from the BSJA

Thank you for your message. As the incident took place at an international show and not in the UK, it is being dealt with by the FEI and we are not able to give further comment at this stage. Regards. British Showjumping.
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So just so I've got my details, this was at Gros Viegeln and the horse is Everglade? (The only one listed that weekend without results)

www.fei.org/contact

Just in case anyone wants to join me in complaining to the FEI.
 
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What a load of rubbish he talks.

“It was inexcusable and I’m not trying to defend myself in any way but the horse had been having a problem at water for a couple of weeks.” Hmm, sounds like a defence to me :rolleyes3:

"What I did was 100% wrong but people don’t see the back story" - what the hell is the relevance of that. No backstory excuses that behaviour.
 
Oh no, he should have just said that the pressure got to him and his behaviour was disgraceful and left it at that. It sounds even worse that he started to justify it and hinted at being a victim to the death threats. I hope he gets on top of his anger issues before he even considers coming back to the sport.
 
Many years ago someone said to me that the incredible, unique , special ,bond and relationship between a horse and its rider is built on mutual trust and never ever betray that trust by raising a hand or beating - this is just disgraceful and I hope he has the book thrown at him. He doesn't deserve to be able to ride a horse again let alone even be in the vicinity of one of these wonderful trusting horses that we all love. Bit upset by this as I'm sure many of us are.
 
Just posted it to BSJA FB as I hadn’t seen it doing the rounds. I didn’t see any death threats and there are none on the comments, think he’s making it up tbf. Nobody wants him dead, just nowhere near a horse.

I’m glad the horse is in a new home though, even if he does say it like we should feel sorry for him.
 
I've noticed over the past decade or so, whenever someone does something bad and they get bad publicity they claim they've had death threats. I'm convinced that most of the time they're just making it up.
 
He's making excuses for his behaviour there, blaming the horse. The rider was at fault, not the horse. He's not remorseful and thank god the other owners took the horse off him. Hope others do the same thing.
 
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