so what are you trying to tell me??? I am confused… Do you think that I believe this girl is a lovely rider???
Manni, do you have to argue with everyone? I don’t think you’re capable of just moving past a thread you don’t agree with. It is incredibly annoying. No one is ever allowed to express a negative opinion of a rider without you jumping in and arguing with everyone.
When things are bad enough, it’s hard not to notice. How long have you been posting things on the internet? When people notice, they say things…
Yes. The thread was derailed. For a reason.
What gives some people the right to decide if somebody can post or not?? A lot of people only post if they think the thread is going to develope into a train wreck (many times train wreck is a nicer expression for a Bully thread) but I am not allowed to post what I see??? And I did not express any judgement about the thread.
I agree very much!!
For all the ones complaining about my post… I think the last 8 pages could have been discussed in my thread about the German system. I actually feel sorry for this rider… I can only imagine how much money she spent. And this is the result… A discussion board shaming her for 8 pages… I think she has no real foundation for her riding and a lot of people only thought about making money out of her… So if you want to continue in my thread you are welcome to do that
Manni, no one said you can’t post. Just that it is incredibly annoying when you do. You’re so confrontational, when you say things like “what are you trying to tell me???”. Why the use of so many question marks? It comes off as demanding…and when you realized the thread wasn’t what you expected, did you really have to point it out? Why not just scroll past? Or even better, start a new thread if it bothers you so much. But you like to argue and you intentionally bait people. It is very tiresome.
No I’m not changing it. I named it so people watching the live stream would come see the post.
I wanted to know why she wasn’t rung out which people have answered. I did not post it to start a Train wreck. I posted it to also see if my opinion was off based or the same as others. As a member for 10 years and 6847 posts, I think I am far far from a trouble starter.
Move along if you don’t like it but you dare come and ruin yet another thread with your holier than thou attitude.
@BigMama1 - They will eliminate them based on the grounds they are not safe to continue. Its utter BS and has caused a lot of heartache. The eventing judges hold too much power.
Not sure what you’ve been watching in the past. This show - Adequan West Coast Dressage Festival - made its debut at Del Mar just last week. The circuit started at Galway Downs in Temecula in early January, and moved to Del Mar for the remaining weeks. AWCD is new to the west coast this year.
I am one of the people that was disappointed in the original post. I was interested in the Del Mar livestream, not in an example of poor riding. The thread should be renamed.
It was a national class, and not under FEI rules, so no potential of a yellow card.
Really? ok, I hope your prayer comes true
Never mind. I wasn’t meaning to be snarky, it was just rather blunt I suppose.
The reality is that when one participates in a public horse show, they give up any reasonable expectation of privacy of their performance, their name and their scores.
It doesn’t take long to figure out what this thread is about regardless of the title and nobody is compelled to go through all 5, not 8, pages. Sheesh! Example: I’m not reading the “Peronace vindicated at last” thread.
I am thrilled that the livestream is available and am more than OK with the community “self-policing.”
I doubt anyone held a gun to Ms. Browning’s head to make her enter the show. The fact that rides would be live-streamed and available for replay was not hidden from anyone. Now, I do think that it was not great when at the Temecula show, there was a videographer at the gate who was broadcasting after ride conversations between riders and coaches and I laughed out loud when one competitor looked directly into the camera and said, “you are NOT videoing this”!
Does anyone know the breed of Donna Richardson’s horse, Digno HM.
Andalusian
Thanks, he looks like a very nice ride.
Wrong. The USDF/USEF has Technical Delegates can issue a yellow card for violations of USEF (national)rules at recognized national shows. Improper use of equipment would merit a yellow card.
Digno is a Luisitano. It’s been fun to watch him move up the levels over the past few years!
True, but it can obviously buy you protection from public embarrassment from USDF/USEF. I truly do believe that a no name person on an average horse doing what she did would have been rung out and yellow carded. Shame on the officials (and they did her more public harm by letting her continue and finish—but perhaps they didn’t know it would be broadcast?) No one is going to protect that poor horse at the risk of pissing off a wealthy and powerful person. It also sounded to me like Axel was admonished for his comments because he later tried to spin it as a lack of preparation rather than abuse and claimed that, yes she was one handing the whip but wasn’t hitting him that hard. What?). But the “ouches” he did say were real time.
i am calling for a head on a stick over this one.