Refresher from Nancy Jaffer.
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It was noted upthread by someone local to him that wound, patch up, dex was a barn pattern.
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Iām replying to this b/c I think itās important to be factual about what happened.
Blugal came at me repeatedly for making a comment about Rebecca Farmās response to a facebook tagging. I engaged her politely. I even used an unsubstantiated story of hers to try to find common ground between us. She showed me no similar grace and did not even acknowledge my attempted olive branch.
She then made this involved 7-quote long attack on me again today while not pushing back even a tiny bit on people who made the exact same point I had made. That feels targeted and I pushed back. I know many of you have seen that post b/c it got many likes.
Iāve just been informed that it was flagged as inappropriate and removed. I do not think that is an accurate assessment of my post. I also do not think itās right to allow her multiple attacks against me to stand while my self defense is reported and removed in its entirety. If there was something wrong in my post it could have been edited with the bulk left to stand. I didnāt report any of the many posts she directed at me, for the record. Not one.
I do not think it is at all fair for my defense to be silenced while her offense remains. This post is to correct that imbalance.
Apologies for the side track.
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If this is trueā¦. whoooo boy. Does this vet work with USEA at all?
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She needs to correct the video description of the second video. It wasnāt just that his mouth was yanked on, he was also whipped right in the eye! Itās hard to see but thatās what happened.
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Breezeway Sporthorse is excited to officially announce our addition of a second veterinarian for all of your horseās needs!! Dr. Cameron Boggs, a Sanford native and NC state graduate has joined our team! Like Dr. Bri, he is certified in chiropractic and acupuncture. A familiar face to many as he has spent the last 6 years riding with Dr. Bri during his schooling. Please help us welcome Dr. Cameron Boggs.
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Varies by state.
In MA, Iām a mandated reporter.
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For the timeline
December 10, 2023 he was awarded the grant.
Hereās his photo for anyone who doesnāt know what he looks like, with his $50k cheque.
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It almost sounds kinky, doesnāt it? Hurt and make up. Ick. Vet events but is not big time.
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Not veer too off the primary topic here but I could not disagree more. There might be a discussion to be had about age limits for a ādeveloping riderā grant, but in a sport where upper level riders can maintain a robust career well into their 50s, 38 doesnāt seem unreasonably old. Of course I would suspect that in Andrewās case personal politics played an outsized role in his selection for the grant and the amount of time itās taken for his behavior to come to light, just making a general argument here.
A lot of riders touching the international levels in their teens and 20s got there on family money (Reed Kessler and Nina Ligon off the top of my head but there are a ton of more recent examples) and eventually drop out of horses altogether. Hell one of Andrewās current mounts was originally competed to 3* by a young rider who started her senior year of college and decided to be done with horses. A perfectly valid life decision for her, but renders any grant money she ever got a wasted investment in the future of the sport.
Also Iām certainly glad no one told Tamie Smith 10 years ago that sheād basically done all she could in the sport at the ripe old age of 39!
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Iāve worked with Bri and sheās incredible. Hopefully the clinic as a whole doesnāt get embroiled in thisā¦
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Do vets actually take the Hippcratic oath? Or is that just for human medicine?
Just curious. For some reason I seemed to recollect that vets didnāt take it.
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I linked the veterinarian oath above in my post, itās located on the AVMA website
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Thereās a veterinary oath that is similar.
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If someone can validate the veterinarian involved and on video, this is the North Carolina complaint process: http://www.ncvmb.org/public.php?section=complaints#content
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I have noticed before that when there is some sort of scandal, the various governing bodies involved are never very switched-on about coordinating their responses.
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From the Nancy Jaffe article:
The videos referenced, which have gone viral, include one showing a man hitting a horse in the head and spinning it around after the animal went by a jump and knocked part of it down. Another video showed a horse taking a small jump, then being yanked in the mouth afterward.
Looking at it on my phone, in the first video I see the rider accidentally dropping his whip and subsequently hitting the horse repeatedly in the head with his hand.
In the second video where the horse jumps a jump, I see a rider hitting the horse repeatedly on the side of the head with a whip being held in his right hand.
This is way uglier than the mouth yanking the writer describes.
Do the rest of you see a whip in that hand in the second video?
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BTW, I might have turned out very differently if Iād had a father who said that getting punched in the head isnāt necessarily abuse.
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Thatās what I saw, too.
Question: The USEF says they have no jurisdiction b/c this happened outside a USEF event. But the Jaffer article notes a clause someone above also referenced: the welfare of the horse must be the priority at all times. So can they not simple deny him membership based on his violation of that clause?
Apologies I forget who first noted the āsmall printā above.
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