Olympic Rollkur rider Patrik Kittel

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For the sake of Patrick Kittel's horse....
if you are going to watch the dressage at Grenwich tomorrow, please turn your back on rollkur rider Patrik Kittel, who rides at 2.44. Please object in some way. Leave the stands, turn your back, or simply stay quiet at the end.
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MissMincePie&Brandy said:
For the sake of Patrick Kittel's horse....
if you are going to watch the dressage at Grenwich tomorrow, please turn your back on rollkur rider Patrik Kittel, who rides at 2.44. Please object in some way. Leave the stands, turn your back, or simply stay quiet at the end.
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Yes Hatefull 3rd rate rider this abusive turd deseves a good beating .... yes hope spectators will do the above well said...
 
was it just me or when Anky finished her test yesterday - she punched the air expecting massive immediate applause - yet it didnt really happen!!
 
I was watching yesterday. The crowd didn't react to anky the way they did 4 yrs ago as she isn't the podium topper she used to be..... Not sure it was to do with the rk issue!
 
Post this all over twitter and facebook. I would love to see a silent crowd or even better one that turned away. Sadly and realistically I dont think it will happen :-(
 
A friend tweeted Horse & Hound and asked them to back our 'Turn your back on rollkur' campaign, and there response was laughable:
"We will not encourage this unsportsmanlike behaviour"

Rollkur is so sportsman like.. I will not be buying H&H again and I know of many more who are canceling their subscriptions...horse and hound used to be cutting edge sadly it is no more
 
M_G said:
A friend tweeted Horse & Hound and asked them to back our 'Turn your back on rollkur' campaign, and there response was laughable:
"We will not encourage this unsportsmanlike behaviour"

Rollkur is so sportsman like.. I will not be buying H&H again and I know of many more who are canceling their subscriptions...horse and hound used to be cutting edge sadly it is no more
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I am not surprised that H&H choose a perverse 'sportsmanship' - with that stance they certainly cannot be considered supporters of horsemanship.
 
I have just cancelled my subscriptions to both H&H and Eventing Magazines after reading their response to the above.
 
The FEI can police this at shows, but not at private yards.

However, horses who have been trained in Rollkur tend to stand out due to their flashy (and technically incorrect!) movement. Until judges start to lower marks for this, nothing will change, because everyone wants to be at the top of the sport.

ETA Laughable response from the FEI, also:

The FEI ‏@myfei_home
Aware of concern about some Dressage training methods. Photos can be misleading. Stewards monitor all training sessions. We’re on the case.
 
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bexj said:
Who else competing is a known Rolkur user apart from this foul individual?
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Anky van Grunsven
Adelinde Cornelissen
Edward Gal
Hans Peter Minderhoud
Andreas Helgstrand
Patrick van der Meer
Michal Rapcewicz
Lyndal Oatley

ANYBODY trained by Sjef Janssen
 
bexj said:
Who else competing is a known Rolkur user apart from this foul individual?
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I think the better question is: Who isn't?

Same as for the show jumpers: Who doesn't train 'behind closed doors' before shows?
And what about the way tennessee walking horses are trained (this really is the worst animal cruelty I have ever seen, just disgusting what they do)? Or western horses?

Don't get me wrong i'm not saying it's ok what they are doing, but this is where the sport is going, it's all about money and success and not about the most important part of our sport, the horse.
 
Jazz1 said:
was it just me or when Anky finished her test yesterday - she punched the air expecting massive immediate applause - yet it didnt really happen!!
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My thoughts were that it was a spontaneous reaction out of relief - her husband Sjef Janssen (also commented on in a later post about Rollkur) - was taken ill just before she was due to compete. He had a brain tumour removed last year and has been taken ill with an viral infection, as although the tumour was benign, it may well have left him with low immunity.

BTW - Thought Charlotte and Valegro were brilliant
 
So I've just switched on tv....have crowd been silent for every rider coming in or is it just for this muppet??
 
When the camera scanned the crowe, I didn't see anyone standing with backs turned. Perhaps the message hasn't got through, and we must remember that some of the crowd won't be 'horsey' necessarily.
 
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