Showjumper accused of beating horse

I do hope the FEI get their backsides into gear and ban / fine this individual! He should have been removed from the ring there and then :mad: !

Also I would hope that any sponsors withdraw their backing to make an example of him and hit him where it hurts....in his wallet!


If that sort of behaviour was seen at say fox and below, IMMEDIATE action would have been taken, I have unfortunatley seen someone belt a horse with a whip at a show ( I do believe it was disco / newcomer class) and the person was asked to leave the ring and was immediatley called to the judges box for a few stern words of warning!
 
I hope he gets a decent reprimand- fined AND banned. You could see the stop coming from a mile out and his timing of the first hit was far too late, let alone continuing to use the whip like that. Poor horse- disgusting riding.
 
From a post of one of the forums linked :
There were 12 smacks (in a row) because there were 12 strides between the Impulsion Sucking Corner and the Big Scary Water. He did take great care to take away the "straight" excuse second time around. All smacks aside the reproach was ridden very well, I'm guessing he knew that even the best ride wouldn't cut it.
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:s Legs each stride,fair enough. BIG crack with whip every stride(even when horse was facing away from the bloody jump!) never OK.

It is abuse-of the horses trust,of his willingness to work for us and physical abuse.That was not a lesson that needed to be taught,but a rider having a temper tantrum-learn to get off a hit a wall.
 
definately excessive, if thats the only way to get it over the waterjump probably needs a bit more training at home...

some rather excessive retribution on here tho what?
 
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