Sorry to ask...but Amy Tryon and Le Samurai

From the "Team Tyron" website..

"I would like to express my appreciation to the Tribunal of the FEI Judicial Committee for its consideration and determination in this matter. I am prepared to accept the Tribunal's decision for the good of the sport. I would also like to thank my husband Greg, the Broussard family, Captain Mark Phillips, Karen O’Connor, and the hundreds of people that have written letters to me over the last two and a half months. Your support has helped to get me through this very difficult time. I also want to reiterate my unequivocal apology to the Tribunal, the FEI, the USEF, the Broussards, Eventers and horse people everywhere for the mistake I made during the cross country at the Lexington Three-Day Event. I misperceived the situation and acted incorrectly. Had I known that Le Samurai was injured in any way, I would have pulled up immediately. In the sport of Eventing, the welfare of the horse must be paramount at all times. I firmly believe in this principle and to the extent that my actions on April 28, 2007 appeared inconsistent with it, I again want to express how truly sorry I am. Most importantly, I want to again express my devastation at having lost Sparky as a friend and a partner, and how much I miss him."

She never blumming mentions she's sorry to poor old Sparky does she??? First of all "Thanks for all my support" then "Sorry to people I might get in trouble with".....

F*CKING BITCH!!!!!
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From the "Team Tyron" website..

"I misperceived the situation and acted incorrectly.

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how very Clintonesque. I believe she is mispeaking, as well as misperceiving. Which is American for lying.
 
I haven't ever seen that and thought, in the past, that maybe ppl were being harsh but I cannot understand how she couldn't feel that horse was hopping lame.

Poor poor boy x
 
I've just watched it again, in disbelief. I can't really get my head around the cruelty involved, I actually counted the strides, and he carried on for nearly 50 before she pulled up. Surely any normal horse loving person, even if they were approaching the last fence in a top competition, would AT LEAST pull the horse up to walk to assess the situation, at which point of course she should have bailed out. What the hell was going through her mind?

I can't imagine being so competitive as to endanger my horses just to win.
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My God
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I have not seen that video before but heard about it....How the hell she did not feel anything wrong is beyond me.

What an honest horse to carry her over the last fence...RIP you poor thing
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I have to say I saw her dressage and thought she looked like a sack of spuds....my 14 month old has a better seat than her!!
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And as for her fall XC at HK....well you could see it a mile off couldnt you......bloody woman.....
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To my mind there are only two possibilities - she is telling the truth and she didn't feel it, in which case, she should never ride another horse, or she is lying and she did feel it, in which case she should never ride another horse.
If the latter, she should also be horse whipped.
Either way, I have totally lost respect for anyone who supports her, including Foggy Phillips and all and any members of the AHSA.
If indeed she won her place on the team based on her ability, never mind God Bless America, it's more a case of God Help America.
 
Look at this
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=138792

Amy Tryon: One of the best in equestrian sports

Amy Tryon with Poggio II deserve a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics 2008 for their performance and what they have had to do, to go to the Olympics. Amy Tryon also deserves a gold medal for being a kind and decent human being..

ETS yes it was me who put a comment at bottom of the news page
 
Well said the_skewbald and kerilli. I have seen that video once before, although after the original uproar, and once I'd seen it I knew at once why people were outraged.

What saddens me is that she was chosen after making this 'mistake' (either she's thick as pig s***e or couldn't care less about the horse) and that she clearly hasn't learnt from it. To be careless once 'may' be a mistake (though I think not), twice is unforgivable. She's lucky that Poggio is not in need of a bullet too.
What's even worse is that all the people who rode so well are being overlooked because of it and I understand why some people are saying that a line should be drawn under it. However, neither should it be forgotten what she did to Le Samurai when even the most novicey beginner would have realised there was something wrong. I think I would feel a bit of sympathy if she'd pulled herself together and ridden well here, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
 
i had not seen that footage and had said that i couldnt make a justified opinion without seeing the footage
i am SICK to my gut to see that. she claimed she couldnt pull the hrose away from the fence?!?!?! YEAH BLOODY RIGHT!! horrible
poor horse
at least she wasnt wearing white breeches but the thighs at the end- bloomin heck!
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The poor poor boy! i feel a bit ill after watching that! how could she make him jump. Clearly a waste of an absolutely amazing horse if he was willing to carry on and jump with a broken leg for an idiot. Even novice riders can feel a lame horse, there's no excuse for that.
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I hadn't seen that video before, and I am now mortified to call myself a horse rider if it puts me on a par with her.

There's no way you could not have felt that. There's no way she couldn't have pulled the horse up before the jump.
 
AT is a sick sick sick foul evil creature. I am still fuming about her a year later and my blood is boiling even more now and she better get her comeupance soon...............
Why do bad things always happen to good people like Claire Lomas (whom thank christ is not another statistic-get well soon), Cheryl Duke, Emma jonathan, Ellie Brennan, Caroline Pratt and so on, when there are disgusting people like AT still being allowed to put horses in danger (I couldnt give a toss about her life).
Harsh words I know but I am so cross with AT and devastated about Emmas death.
 
oh BUM!!!! i tried to click on the ratings on that article to see but accidently clicked the stars and pushed it up to 2 stars!!! sorry people!!! if i post a comment will it redeem me?
 
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Look at this
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=138792

Amy Tryon: One of the best in equestrian sports

Amy Tryon with Poggio II deserve a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics 2008 for their performance and what they have had to do, to go to the Olympics. Amy Tryon also deserves a gold medal for being a kind and decent human being..

ETS yes it was me who put a comment at bottom of the news page


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i just had a little comment too - who the hell wrote that tosh??
 
Sorry to come to the thread late but oh my goodness - that's the first time I have seen that footage and I feel sick - At the original outcry I was prepared to believe that the might not have noticed or that it happened so close to the next fence that she couldn't pull him up in time. I now realise that is rubbish.

Who wrote the tosh in that article? Probably her (very optimistic and naieve) PR agency.
 
I can't believe she can't have notied that it's appaling and blatently obvious on video.

As a prfessional rider she shoudl nkow when her horse doesn't feel right.

She should be banned the fat heiffer.
 
I read the article but i have not commented as i suspect its purpose is exactly this. t stir up the whole situation again and far from being written by AT's mother or PR company, it is written by one of her detractors. Look at the way it is written, no real horse person or journalist/ PR wrote that.
I have said this else where as well as at the time. the video is awful, she did a bad thing. there was and is no excuse and she should not have been representing the USA this week. However the fact that she was is the fault of the FEI and the AHSA/USET. There is not one person i can think of who would not got to an olympics if asked so dont blame AT for that. You might direct some hate mail to those parties if you wish.
However She is going to pay for this for the rest of her life, she will never escape it and that is a big punishment. She rode like a muppet yesterday but at Barbury rode the same horse in the same bridle (he wears a plain hackamore) and went round as polite as you like. Barely anyone even noticed she was there. I wouldnt wish anyone dead and just bear in mind that if she has a bad horse fall the horse might not get up either.
I havent changed my opinion of her actions that day in lexington, nor would i ever send her a horse of mine, but i do not think this constant rehashing of the subject serves any purpose except making eventing as a whole look bad.
you might also care to remember that for a great many years AT was a serving member of the city's fire service and consquently risked her life on many occasions to save other people and their proprty and livelihoods. i didnt remeber that 18 months ago but i am starting to wish i had.
 
OMFG.

I'm glad this subject is re-hashed here, it demonstrates that the horse owners on this forum - eventers or not - are appalled at mistreatment in competition and would never condone it, which I believe helps to redress the image AT has portrayed.
 
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