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Or am I watching the wrong sides? I can find nothing about Cavvy being mentioned. BBC1 mentioned EE but nothing else, just that it took place
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Because on news in general, equestrian sports, except racing, are ignored. It isn't even listed as a headline on Sky Sports. We lost a wonderful Olympian today yet no acknowledgement of him from anyone in mainstream news or sports organisations.
 
During the post-event press conference, we were told that Cavvy had been taken away for assessment and treatment rather than what had actually happened - I found out the truth from another source straight after the press conference had finished, which also explains why many of the national press reports do not mention it - difficult to blame the journalists for that really.
 
If we know - they know. They are live programmes this morning. They fequesntly have 'unconfirmed reports' on these programmes. I am really angry about this. There re millions of horse owners in the UK. This should be in the news.
 
After the event, spectators could stand immediately above the stables. Lots of people gathered to see how he was and it was Mary herself who told us all the news. There were a couple of hundred people waiting to here about Cavvy. Journalists must have known.

I wish they had mentioned something - that would have been a fitting gesture for a special athlete.
 
Whilst I understand and agree with the distress of HHOs that this isn't in the news, can you imagine the negative way the media would cover if it was? I'm not sure that would be good for Mary either.
 
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After the event, spectators could stand immediately above the stables. Lots of people gathered to see how he was and it was Mary herself who told us all the news. There were a couple of hundred people waiting to here about Cavvy. Journalists must have known.

I wish they had mentioned something - that would have been a fitting gesture for a special athlete.

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I can promise you, the first thing that was said in the press conference was that Cavvy had been taken away by John Killingbeck for assessment and treatment, and when asked directly by a journalist where he had been taken they were very cagey and said they did not know. Frankly the whole thing stinks of a cover up to stop it being reported in the non-equine, immediate publication press (as opposed to the likes of H&H who obviously don't go to press straight away). By the time that was over, several people went to file copy from the press room and the rest left - I walked out past the stables and there was no-one around.
 
I thought the mention in the Telegraph was a pretty poor tribute. And by ALan Smith, too, one of our foremost equestrian journalists.
 
The Express Eventing's press release is pathetic:
Express Eventing Press Release

"As a result of a fall at fence 12B, Mary King’s horse Call Again Cavalier is being taken away for further inspection. The official vet at Express Eventing, John Killingbeck, has travelled with the horse."

No further mention and like everyone's saying, it's only just coming out through the mainstream press now. I even listened to 5live this morning in the hope that something might be on there, but nothing at all.
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I was there. Anyone who know anything about horses knew immediately the leg was broken and that the chances of Cavvy surviving the night were just about nil. I think they struggled to get him on the horse ambulance to avoid having to put it down in the arena (as I remembered they did once with a showjumper at Wembley). I did find mention on Times website when I got home last night.
 
I have to stick up for SpottedCat here. I was standing on the pitch for the prizegiving and there were mutterings between the arena team about how things could have been done better but they didn't know any details.

In the Media Centre we were "fluffed", maybe because they, at the time, didn't know, or maybe because they were preparing a statement. Cavvy was PTS soon though because I spoke to a friend who had been round to see Oli's team and they knew before 6pm.
 
QR. As the main purpose of this event was to raise the profile of eventing I can understand why they are fluffing the news up. I mean, can you imagine how the tabliods would twist it? It's sad that such a well known and succesfull animal is barely getting a mention in the general media, but IMO that's better than an anti-eventing media hoo-ha. Here in the equestrian community we can remember and pay tribute to Cavvy in our own way, without the sensationalist headlines.
 
The Telegraph!

"A sad anti-climax". An anticlimax,a £%^&*((( ANTICLIMAX?
How inappropriately written. I'm not an experiencd journalsit and even I can think of better ways of wording it.
 
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QR. As the main purpose of this event was to raise the profile of eventing I can understand why they are fluffing the news up. I mean, can you imagine how the tabliods would twist it? It's sad that such a well known and succesfull animal is barely getting a mention in the general media, but IMO that's better than an anti-eventing media hoo-ha. Here in the equestrian community we can remember and pay tribute to Cavvy in our own way, without the sensationalist headlines.

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I agree.

Its terribly sad what has happened to Cavvy, but although he was a real star, many horses die in eventing every year - plenty of high profile ones too, and they are rarely more than briefly mentioned at the most. I don't see why anyone would expect differently for him - and it is probably better that way because the last thing eventing needs is more emphasis and press on how cruel and dangerous it is.
 
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I agree.

Its terribly sad what has happened to Cavvy, but although he was a real star, many horses die in eventing every year - plenty of high profile ones too, and they are rarely more than briefly mentioned at the most. I don't see why anyone would expect differently for him - and it is probably better that way because the last thing eventing needs is more emphasis and press on how cruel and dangerous it is.

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Exactly spiral. What we've also got to remember is that the last high profile horse death was Tsunami which of course got press coverage because it's Zara's horse. So it's going to seem much quieter on the press front this time round.
 
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