Why does everything get deleted on Facebook? Maybe some of these people would take a look at themselves if they had a public shaming and the USEF had some pressure to do something!
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Is this confirmed? I saw this posted in a facebook comment as something someone heard from someone else, but find it far more likely that USEF is following its own internal hearing processes, and (like most organizations/agencies) won’t comment until there is a preliminary or final determination.
Do we know which show this is from?
I assumed it was one of the most recent ones, but the way people are commenting on FB, it seems like it possibly was from last year?
Confirmed. Cease & desist letters are flying.
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According to her USEF record she last showed November 2024, at Great Southwest - where this video was taken from. Not sure about WHEN this video was taken but it’s definitely at GSEC.
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Lawyers.
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Yikes.
This video popped up on one of the pages I follow on Facebook. I know social media can be a total cesspool at times but this is a great example of how it can really “out” the terrible people. I agree with the other posters saying “if this happens in public, what goes on in the privacy of their own barns?”
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Her USEF record shows a rider fall in the 2’6" Hopeful Hunters at the Great Southwest Autumn Classic in November.
She was not having a very successful show as far as placings were concerned.
Edited to correct. The show was Final Chase not Great Southwest.
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Not a great position. Especially with a horse maybe know for a spin about. Pinching knee. Not landing in the heels which are creeping back. That was not a dirty stop. And the reaction was indefensible
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Okay so they have threatened legal action. I’d still be surprised if that is why we haven’t heard anything by from USEF. As we have seen in other situations, it generally takes time for them to say anything anyway.
Another video popped up and was deleted within five minutes of Different rider in Harrisburg.
That was rightfully deleted because the Harrisburg feed had the wrong rider’s name on screen. I actually reported that one for removal.
ETA because mass confusion has ensued: These are 2 different horses & circumstances. The horse in the Harrisburg video is not the horse in the OP. There is no connection between these two events.
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Horses quit for a reason. Usually pain. I can’t comment on the horse only the abusive reaction.
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Since it happened in November and USEF takes it’s time, the holidays probably slowed USEF’s internal workings even further.
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I actually almost made reference to this video but thought it might be too off topic. The rider whacked the horse and let go of the whip, and then cantered around booting it trying to go forward. Another gross video.
However, the video had the wrong riders name in it. I’d be mortified if I were her - what crummy luck there was a mistake in a video that could very well go viral? Luckily the video was deleted, and rightfully so.
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And other things. Low jumps make me think “green”. Horse could be confused, not understanding what to do next. Or saw something super scary up ahead. Or rider took the leg off (as the horse perceived it). Or horse’s best horse friend let out a ringing neigh behind him.
Horses are reactive. It takes time for a green horse to build focus in a distracting environment.
This lovely horse just looked like he needs some confidence building. If I had been the rider and got dumped, I wouldn’t have been thrilled with what happened, but I wouldn’t have been upset, either. Horse being a horse.
Assuming this lady is a pro – dang, it’s so much easier to explain a spook & fall than it is to explain losing one’s temper and taking it out on the horse!
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Fell off like a green rider, insecure. Reacted to that fall like… well… I won’t even call her an amateur rider. Like a spoiled child. Not a horseman.
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Kate Conover rode the horse the day before and couldn’t get it around. Kate did not do anything wrong at all. Then Morgan Parasher rode it the next day in the video that was posted. I thought the video was awful personally.
In this video it looks like it didn’t like the look of the next fence, which didn’t show in the video in the OP.
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Either that or the shadow. There are a lot of trees and things kind of darting in the background. People underestimate what that looks like to a horse.
Abhorrent behavior, truly, on the part of the rider not the horse.
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