Phillip Dutton Disqualified?

Really?
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Thats what i reckon. It was strange because the young polish rider went to take his horses boots off & was stopped by a official
 
blumen hell, that seems to have slipped the publicity the radar, I did get a result on google but very limited!!! I am going to weight pickles boots see how much they weigh just to see how much that horse was carrying!
 
"American Phillip Dutton, who finished 16th in the individual round on Connaught, was disqualified from the competition when he contravened the FEI horse welfare ruling, introduced in February this year, that horse boots should weigh no more than 500g."

There you go.
 
lots of riders use the weighted boots here, i can give anyone who is dying to know a few names. and with hackneys (and american 'gaited' horses as well as with showjumpers in the past, the boots were used in training when ever the horse worked so when it was about to gointo the ring to compete the booots were imediately removed the sudden loss of weight mde them pick their legs up higher.
the current trend believes that you put the boots on immediately before you jump, done up very tight on the horses hind legs and are also known as pinch boots because the combintion of weight and tightness does that to the horses hind leg making him pick his feet up higher to try and kick them off, here is a picture of a typical response
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personally i think their use should be discoouraged in general.
 
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