Pippa Cuckson

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Forgery City

Forgery: What is worse, the imagination applied to forgery in international endurance or the fact that the FEI seems resigned to it?
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More Bloody Confusion

After Scott Brash’s disqualification at a Global Champions League event for alleged blood, some have called on the FEI to change their rules.
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Contamination: An Unavoidable Waste of Court Time

Are we seeing more and more doping cases related to accidental contamination? The FEI Tribunal’s workload is enormous. Right now, it has the longest pending case list I can ever recall. There are 40 outstanding cases, only a tiny handful going back much beyond a year, and on the face of it an unprecedented number […]
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Third Time May Not Be So Charming

Pippa Cuckson shares her thoughts on the decisions made at the FEI’s Sports Forum and Extraordinary General Assembly. We are just a few days short of the first anniversary of the Daily Telegraph article by yours-truly that revealed the enormity of doping in endurance yards owned by the in-laws of Princess Haya, president of the […]
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Task Force Conflicts Cause Shockwaves

Horse Sport International’s “Insider,” Pippa Cuckson provides a special report on the Endurance Strategic Planning Group: Colleagues often preface emails with the phrase “you couldn’t make it up” when discussing the latest surreal missives from FEI press office. These words are inadequate to describe the emanations of the past few days. If anyone still needed written […]