Coach Rick Maynard and course designer Peter Holmes offer suggestions to allow the jumping phase to continue in a safe and humane way.
Equine Welfare
Riding Working Group to review Tokyo 2020 Olympics and make recommendations; rule changes expected for Paris 2024.
The clinic offers routine and emergency services, treatment boxes, laboratory, pharmacy, radiography, ultrasound and surgery facilities.
Witness recalls hearing ‘pops and snapping noises’ at a show where Kocher told him he was trying to fix the spurs as they were ‘too hot’.
With equine welfare in mind, the Equine Health and Welfare Committee will be working towards the implementation of a noseband tightness rule.
Covid mitigation measures may complicate heat stress management in horses, plus calls for future Olympics to be moved to later in the year.
TV station RTL is set to broadcast video of the controversial practice, but has refused to give the German equestrian federation a copy.
"We are extremely disappointed...to lose this case on appeal is more than disheartening." ~ FEI secretary general Sabrina Ibáñez.
As well as horse abuse, the US rider is found to have brought the sport into disrepute and committed criminal acts under Swiss law.
Together with PAEC, efforts are being made to help horses and horsepeople in the wake of the volcanic eruption on the island of St. Vincent.