This person has come out as one of the whistle blowers and the person in the DH interview https://www.facebook.com/share/p/m6jXSe1nXSSZ4MGJ/
And this is why many people want to remove horses from big competitions. It’s absolutely criminal and it seems many do this.
What does beating a horse until its eyes are swelled shut accomplish?
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Wow. Like, holy shit, wow.
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I would like to see a source other than Dressage Hub. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have much currency as a balanced reporter.
This is absolutely not to that the information as stated by @Jealoushe about the interview is not horrifying and one wonders how on earth Evi was allowed to compete at the Royal.
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One wonders how she was an Olymian and everything else.
But if coth has taught me anything, it’s that the equine heros of my youth are all cut from this same cloth. So disappointing.
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I was just thinking this morning that the reason more trainers don’t speak up against these abuses is because there are so many trainers that are abusive. Can’t turn someone in for things that you also do.
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A broken dressage whip while standing at the front and hitting horizontal could definitely break skin.
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Yes re watched the interview and she actually said Evie was out of town during that episode. I have to listen again to see what happened.
More grooms have come forward and the FEI has actually reached out to dressage hub.
Evie has allegedly tagged judges Lee Tubman and Cara Whittam for support on Facebook.
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So one time she wasn’t there to join in the abuse? I find it hard to believe that people remembering incidences from as far back as 2001 are getting their facts wrong.
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Didn’t think of that.
Insanity. Absolute insanity.
I remember when I was young I thought that Saddle Seat show riding, especially THW and ASBs was abusive.
Now it seems that I can add top level dressage to that list. (NOT all dressage riders by the way.)
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If people here knew what Dressage Hub has done to people, they wouldn’t be holding them up as some sort of savior of horses. Frankly, I don’t believe anything on their page. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m saying that Dressage Hub has a history of making things up to ruin people they don’t like.
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And doesn’t she have some sort of grudge against Canadian riders?
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DH makes the accusations less credible to me, and I think it’s a shame this is giving her any sort of legitimation (legitimacy? legitimization?)
But there seem to be a lot of voices repeating the same.
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How many of the voices are real though? 
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Yeah I don’t know. But I assume some of them for a suspension to actually take place.
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Mine is!
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why are you questioning this? Simply because DH reported?
As someone who has seen them ride and know for a fact their friends use abuse in training, this doesn’t surprise me at all.
They are both currently suspended by EC again.
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Didn’t FEI suspend them as well?
It seems that there are many real witnesses to abuse who were willing to cooperate with investigators
It’s unfortunate DH has become enmeshed with this story… it inevitably leads to people wondering if there is some sort of vendetta underneath the allegations.
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yes it is but unfortunately she’s the only one willing to report on these things.
I’m in no way a supporter but I’m grateful she’s sticking her neck out on this one.
20 years of being reported and it took DH for a suspense to happen.
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