Good for them. All the western people I’ve met use rope halters and they tie in them.
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I know a few western riders with a rope halter or two hanging in their tackroom, but never see one at a show/roping/cutting. Guess it depends on the neighbourhood you live in.
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That’s good to hear. I had to tell a friend whose horse I was trailering to go get a leather halter for her mare or I’d leave them behind. That mare was a 1500 pound WB, next to my precious Feronia who weighed about 950 pounds at the time. I didn’t want that monster mare getting trapped and flailing if things went sideways.
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Exactly! I have always popped a halter over the rope one when putting the horse on cross ties or tying.
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Makes no sense. Presumably he’s in his stall, but she beds him on straw even though he eats straw? What?
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Just as an aside, straw is pretty popular in my area because the mushroom farmers take it away for free (and you get mushrooms as gifts from them for Christmas, if you are into that sort of thing). So a lot of horses are bedded in straw but if something like colic is suspected, they will take away the straw on the off chance the horse will eat it and cause more issues. Sometimes, if a horse comes back from the hospital with a colic related issue, part of the aftercare remarks is to bed in shavings to avoid the horse eating what it shouldn’t (this is when hay and grain is also limited after surgery).
So, for me, having a suspected colic issue and not wanting the horse to eat straw is not a red flag. I am not sure how the horse was tied up so as not to eat it, many racehorse barns here have a hook and bungee on it that they hook the horse to when tacking up so they would just hook the horse to that until the barn help can get to cleaning out the stall. Those I have always seen on the wall opposite where the water buckets/
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Even when you are going away to a show for the day and no one has been asked to supervise the horse? That is not a red flag?
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I derived from the comments that barn workers were there but maybe I misconstrued something? Wasn’t it stated that she tied the horse until the barn workers could clean out the stall and the barn worker found the horse after the incident?
I have seen catastrophes happen with barn workers right there, as well as ones where the proximity of a worker meant a catastrophe was avoided. I have also seen horses tied and left unattended - not with no one on the property, just no one in the immediate vicinity, staring at the horse in question.
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Straw removal is not a thing here in the Southeast…
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Nope. Web halters. You may see an occasional Be Nice halter. These horses do not pull back. They’re trained from weanlings to tie and there’s no monkey business. For example, I showed in cutting and all the turn back horses would stay tied to the arena wall for hours. Horses loping, stopping behind them, backing up, cattle changes, etc. One of the most frustrating things I learned when I changed disciplines is that the H/J crowd doesn’t think that tying and standing there until someone comes to get you is all that important.
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I said “all the western people I’ve met”. I don’t know you.
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And with all the waiting around that happens in HJ land, those horses could stand to learn some patience the easy way.
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There’s patience in some hunter circles especially at lower levels. You’ll see lots of riders sitting on bored, sleeping horses at the in-gate. 
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To think she has the audacity to show up at Bruce’s Field in Aiken and show this week is beyond me. I am disgusted 
I can’t even believe it is even allowed. But of course, USEF has done a whole lot of nothing again.
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Effective may 16th she has a 6 month ban from USEF. Not nearly enough but better than nothing
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It’s indefinite. She can reapply after 6 months but will need to demonstrate a change of behavior and accepting accountability for her actions.
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Effective May 16th she is expelled from membership and may not reapply for membership for a minimum of 6 months - so it is not automatic that she will be reinstated after 6 months like a suspension. And she does have to provide proof that she’s rehabilitated herself… not sure she’s going to be able to do that in 6 months since Paul V hasn’t been able to do that yet.
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That lawyer is a peach! OMG reading his comments is hilarious and rather alarming at the same time.
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