I’ve watched the show and had no idea who she was either.
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It is broadcast in nearly 80 countries (including Japan 
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According to Wiki (sigh, yes that is where I looked), she has a very long list of films too.
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Does it really matter how famous she is?? Or why? 
She rides herself. And shows. She’s had a successful enough acting career that I’m pretty sure she could afford the horse at just about any price. And she was interested enough to offer to buy the horse at any price and give him a good home. I’m sure many of us would be glad to do the same thing for him if we had the means.
What exactly is the problem with that course of action??
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She is a lot more famous than most H/J riders. By a pretty wide margin. I believe she only does jumpers, though.
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OK, I finally decided to cave and see what happened in Tokyo but NBC doesn’t have the pentathlon jumping replays up. I could only find a clip in which two clear rounds in the women’s were featured. Am I missing something?
In addition to several riders who had extremely bad rounds in the pentathlon, there was a German woman who had a gigantic meltdown before her round even started. She was sobbing and crying and spurring and whipping the horse because she could not get him to go forward before the tone to start had even sounded.
Her display of extremely poor sportsmanship and horsemanship somehow made the jump from horse related media to other news outlets, and started a huge backlash against the whole sport. And of course, all the people who don’t know any better did not realize the difference between horses in the pentathlon and the actual horse disciplines at the Olympics.
Long story short, the actress Kaley Cuoco, who rides and shows herself, felt sorry for the horse and offered to buy him via her social media posts, and apparently there are people who think that’s a bad thing.
If you want the much, much, much longer version, you can go read the pentathlon thread in the Olympic forum. And if you do a search on that thread for videos, you might be able to find some footage of the debacle.
I will add that as a result of all the negative attention, the organization in charge of the pentathlon actually said they would make some changes in the rules to improve horse welfare. Fingers crossed they will really follow through on it.
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Nothing. I just wish she’d adopt me. 
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Ah, yes- I’ve been following the threads here a bit and on FB and heard about all the dangerous rounds, and the fact the German rider had a meltdown, but was confused why NBC would scrub the footage from their replay website. I mean, it must’ve been really, really bad for that to happen. Hope they make changes too!
@ser42 There is a very long thread in the olympic section of the forum about the pentathlon, it includes links to videos.
It is a long read but might be worth checking out.
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Please try to understand that there’s those of us who follow pop culture probably closer than we should/know that industry (and I would Never work in it) that see through the PR stuntin’. 
She’s never addressed the bigger picture of ALL the horses, the over-faced riders as a larger whole, and the massive issue with this sport in general. A lot of the horses were crashed thru jumps for this event - what about them? I’ll tell why - they didn’t get the press that Saint Boy got. Instead, she regramed a ton of people/media outlets singing her praises saying she’d buy the horse; a number of them regraming people regraming her original story. 
I hope she didn’t pull a muscle patting herself on the back.
If she was serious about buying the horse for any price, the owners are of record. Contact THEM and stop with the posing online for the clicks - which if you have friends in Hwood (I have a few that do everything from licensing, producing, acting on shows you’ve seen, directing, managing, voice over work; and yes, that’s 6 different people), this is pretty standard for keep your name on people’s minds.
Again - I like Kaley; her heart is in the right place when it comes to animal welfare. But in this instance, I just see thru this BS, or as you called it “scorn” 
, and echoing, again, what @Equkelly said, “That’s why I’m saying if Kaley was legitimately interested in purchasing this horse out of the kindness of her heart, she’d just quietly get her people to get her in contact with the owner. Instead she’s acting like a brat on Instagram.”
Throw your celebrity weight beside Peter Holmes and the other industry folks who want to go for something for the greater good of ALL the horses in this sport, just not the one who was splashed across global media.
And food for thought - I’d place my bets on the fact the owners have their own FU money and couldn’t give a flip about some US TV actress.
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Trying real hard to not give attention to the individual attempting to derail this thread, again… HOWEVER, there are issues in our sport that absolutely do deserve our attention and deserve to be “put on blast” on Instagram or wherever but this one, unknown owner isn’t in that category IMO.
Also if there’s a discussion from over a year ago that you’re still bitter over, make your own thread about it and quit trying to derail healthy discussions.
Is this directed at me? If so, I have no idea what you’re referring to.
Could you please quote my post where I used the word “scorn”? You put it in quotation marks in your reply to me, but I don’t recall using that word.
I don’t follow Instagram at all, so I don’t claim to be an expert on it. She seems to be a genuine horse lover who took an interest in this particular horse, as many of us did after seeing the videos.
Is there some law that says you can only try to help one horse if you simultaneously try to help all horses? That sounds like the same logic from the people who think it’s a waste of time to make changes to help the pentathlon horses when there are event horses that have it worse.
If someone makes an extremely public offer to buy a horse at any price, I will take them at their word until such time as they back out on that offer. If that happens, by all means, trash them to your heart’s content.
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It is not directed at you.
Hmm. I can usually spot thread derailers, but don’t see one here.
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I stand corrected, all. I suppose I am not that demographic as I don’t watch sitcoms. 
I still agree with the other poster in that if she was truly serious, she’d track down the owner and contact him/her/them privately.
I understand what some of you are saying about “grandstanding”, but isn’t this just the typical type of sharing on social media that the younger generation does?
I still think it was very caring of her. If her involvement on the issue brings more coverage to the problem in MP, I can only think of it as a good thing. Maybe even some non-horsey followers will get on board with loudly complaining to help effect change. 
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Exactly.
Does anyone think that the organization in charge of that sport would have made any effort to change anything without all that public attention focused on it? They’ve been doing it the same way for decades until now.
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Ok but this only started after modern pentathlon announced that it would in fact lower the jumps and make improvements next time. And she’s not trying to end modern pentathalon or advocate for changes she’s trying to buy a horse because she’s assuming he doesn’t already have a good home which I feel is it bit due to anti Asian bias and quiet racism. If the olympics were in Wellington everyone would probably feel bad for the poor owner but since it happened in Tokyo, people are demanding the unknown owner, post a picture of their horse with the current newspaper to prove to us he’s ok. That’s seriously what people on Facebook are saying.
I barely feel comfortable posting pictures of my horse here on this forum. If my horse was in the center of a world wide controversy, the last thing I’d do is post pictures of MY horse at my barn for some crazy PETA sleuth to track us down. No thank you. They donated their horse for an Olympic event and now the world thinks their entitled to infringe on the owners privacy? Nope.
And now Kaley Cuoco wants to join in the borderline quietly racist pile on.
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