Ulrike Prunthaller banned for nine months

I feel so angry when I read this.

It is so wrong and cruel but also utterly lazy. If they spent as much time riding carefully correctly and learning and reading about correct schooling as they do thinking up and investigating ways to torture horses they maybe better more successful riders and trainers.
 
Wow - but only banned from competition :confused: Why are they allowed to continue to keep training if these allegations are founded?
 
I am not the brightest, how on earth does putting stones under the noseband and nails in the wither make a horse improve it's way of going ?

What does such cruelty achieve.
 
AdorableAlice said:
I am not the brightest, how on earth does putting stones under the noseband and nails in the wither make a horse improve it's way of going ?

What does such cruelty achieve.
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From the article in OP it appears that this was not proven so could be unfounded. The ban is down to use of electric shocks - not much detail in article though. She has incurred a 3 month extension to 2 3 month bans making a total, so far, of 9 months.

Extended tournament lock on the Austrian Ulrike Prunthaller
10.02.2012
The Austrian dressage rider Ulrike Prunthaller has been blocked by the Tyrolean Pferdesportverband an additional three months of all tournaments. She is suspected to have used electric shocks during training.
Vienna - As the Austrian Equestrian Federation has announced that the Arbitral Tribunal of the Tyrolean Equestrian Federation on 6 November 2011 imposed three-month tournament lock for Ulrike Prunthaller extended for another three months. The dressage rider is blocked because two people had filed affidavits in serious allegations against the professional rider and her trainer Fritz Atschko (see RRI 1/2012). Among others, it was about the alleged use of electric shock in training. End of November Ulrike Prunthaller had lodged a complaint against the provisional suspension. This was rejected by the Senate Committee on Criminal Tyrolean Equestrian Federation. The prosecution had set the investigation on suspicion of animal cruelty. However, the competent tribunal of the Tyrolean Equestrian Federation has now decided to extend the ban imposed tournament for another three months, because the suspicion was passed on. It should be sought expert advice and then a further hearing date made. -Sr-
 
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