The French Endurance team’s long-standing chef d’equipe, believes the chaos that unfurled yesterday in Tryon could “sign the death of endurance.”

Unprecedented scenes of chaos and anger have unfolded on the opening day of the WEG with the decision to re-start the race as a 120km 2* event.

Nicki Meuten, a leading American endurance rider, who is also a veterinarian, has escaped suspension for a doping offence in Canada.

Workers are battling round the clock in “multiple shifts” to get Tryon International Equestrian Centre serviceable on time for the World Equestrian Games.

Fear over a potential horse welfare scandal in the sport of endurance at the World Equestrian Games have come to a head in recent days.

The world’s top-ranked endurance horse Shaddad will be unavailable for the UAE’s WEG squad after testing positive to the banned substance, testosterone.

An FEI Endurance Championship is again at the centre of controversy, with video evidence of a highly distressed gold-medal winning team horse.

Stronger use of the yellow warning card for whip misuse and repeat blood offenders has been proposed by the FEI eventing committee .

A 5km test for three-year-old sport horses at speeds has been scrapped by organisers of the FEI World Endurance Breeding Championships after outcry.

Netherlands-based show jumper Ben Talbot, 32, is now the second British rider is at the centre of a social media storm over whip abuse.