Double Olympic dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin suspended for one year after horse whipping video emerged

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1. Seems fair but I know a few people in the horsey world and they were all completely unphased by the video. They all condemned it but they all said they had seen far worse and some confessed to have done worse at one point in their careers. It seems fairly normal in certain parts of the industry..

2. Let’s be honest here: she’s being suspended for the video leaking, not for the animal abuse, despite what they say.

3. >Referring to the video of a coaching session, she said what happened was “completely out of character” and “does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils”.

   Ah the old “I’ve only ever done it once and it happened to be caught on camera” routine.

4. Funny isn’t it? If you get caught doping on drugs, you get a permaban for only harming your own body to get ahead. Yet if you harm another living creature to try and get ahead you just get a provisional suspension.

   Nothing like sports and free-flowing cash to overlook ethics.

5. Money money money…

   We can do what we like

   Money money money

   It’s my horse that I strike

   Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaa… ah ha haaaaa

6. Someone sat on that video for years before releasing it just before the Paris Olympics, where Ms Dujardin was expected to earn enough medals to become the most decorated living British female Olympian. I assume it was revenge for something.

7. Isn’t it bizarre that she was suspended, and yet the Dutch Olympic volleyball player who raped a teenage girl was still allowed to compete.

8. I thought. animal abuse was a crime. There is video evidence time for the law to get involved. 

9. any sports regarding horses is inherently cruel. this is absolutely disgusting to watch. i guarantee this is “normal” in their world and they are only sorry the video got out. the fucking woman that is filming was laughing. the lot of them need whipping themselves.

10. Honestly, most horsey people have abused their horses, this doesn’t surprise me at all. The horsey world is fucked up, and there’s a lot of people that shouldn’t be allowed to be near them. These poor animals are no different from the ones performing in circuses that we’re all apparently outraged at.

11. Hate to break it to people but it is considered normal among certain parts of that industry to horrifically abuse the horses. If you think this is a rare thing, you are sorely mistaken. Every single horse at the Olympics or any other high level competition is being abused, I guarantee it.

12. No one has mentioned that horses are not meant to carry loads on their backs. When they get pregnant the fetus hangs below the backbone not above it like a rider. It’s just slavery even if you really, really love your little pony… btw born into a horse family, lived my life surrounded by wild horses…

13. Horse riding awards should go to the horses, not the riders.

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