Except that according to the USEF records, she showed a few times the year after the shooting, in 2020. And there was a video posted on a previous thread of her riding at the farm where she boards in Loxahatchee over this past winter, I believe.
And I’m sure if necessary her ex-trainer could be compelled to testify to her time in the saddle as well as progression of training. As far as needing to nap between rides, etc, apparently that’s her typical behavior and always has been even before the shooting.
Wasn’t there a post that she bragged about having ridden some number of horses already at some morning hour asking others what they have done yet today?
I seem to recall that LK or RG testified they heard barn staff chatting about whether the dryer was shutting off promptly. It’s always a potential issue with dryers, some loads you get damp towels and other loads you get them baked. In other words they just grabbed onto something they heard to make trouble.
my husband skimmed over it, when I asked him what he thought about a certain witness he replied ‘flaky’ and I think he had another term, which I find not nice in regard to women, but actually apt and descriptive about the certain witness’s appearance.
I recall checking out her (public, at the time) Instagram back around the beginning of the trial and there was a post showing her bronze medal certificate. I don’t remember when the post was from.
She’s also definitely made posts on here to the tune that she had ridden multiple horses every morning before any of us even rolled out of bed, because she lives in Florida and is super duper dedicated etc. Obviously that was back before the trial, and before her LaLa account got banned.
I do not think her implant saved her life. An implant is made of silicone, not teflon.
Also, when I was 17 I had my abdomen split open through the cutaneous and muscle layers and my intestines pulled from my body and manually explored searching for tumors. A totally invasive abdominal surgery that in no way impeded my ability to ride after recovery. Abdominal incisions are not necessarily debilitating, despite invasiveness. It is case by case and certainly not something you would know for certain without knowing LK personally and the outcome of her surgery. So I assume, once again, this is all speculation.
Well, true… I certainly take the part about how dedicated she is with an entire truckload of salt. But the bronze medal certificate photo at least appeared legit, so she must have been able to ride adequately well to finish getting her scores, despite her surgeries.
For what it’s worth I know EXACTLY what thoracic surgery feels like. I was opened up due to Stage 2 Lung Cancer. They went in on my side, pulled my lung out, deflated it, chopped it in half to make sure they got it all, cut out a dozen lymph nodes, stitched it all up and shoved it back in.
There was very little pain except for pulling out the drainage hose. But they yank that sucker out in one hard fell swoop so you only feel death for like 3 seconds. 30 days after surgery I began several rounds of the strongest chemo they can give a person as adjuvant chemotherapy. It was the chemo that was the hard part.
The wounds were fine as were the wounds from ripping out my ovaries after a giant ovarian cyst.
So I thought they were doing that and getting no response?. Then this forum said she should have unplugged it but she was banned from the barn at that hour.