Blemishes are only judged in specific classes, which the rider was not entered in. You are quoting rules for one specific class.
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I was unaware riders only showed gratitude for their horses on Instagram.
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Duh, don’t you know that if you don’t write a novel about how grateful you are for Mr. Ed after every show it’s ABOOSE!
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I know 
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Even if it isn’t a spur rub I have to wonder about the ethics of spurring it constantly. Why not use a belly band warming up?
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How do you know it was spurred constantly?
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I thinks railbirds get upset when the horse with whatever blemish / wound / scar WINS. Then they work backwards. I have a super hard time believing a horse of this caliber would be blatantly allowed to be abused. Maybe I’m wrong. Contact the show steward. And if you make a bunch of noise and the horse still is showing MAYBE just maybe it’s because there is no abuse and the officials learned whatever truth explains things.
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I object to Piper’s verbiage: Makes me puke were her words. That’s not journalism or even editorializing, that’s teen girl ‘outrage’ language. Not professional. Not seeking the truth, just likes and breathless angst from followers on Insta. There’s too much of this type of posting on so many issues. No real answers, just “asking questions” to get a rise.
Perhaps the owners/trainer in this situation have no idea there’s a firestorm of fauxrage brewing on SM. If they don’t post here or follow Plaidhorse on Insta, then they’d have no clue.
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Say it to who? Now they should have to post some defensive thing on social media explaining why their horse has a patch of missing hair/scar/whatever. Should we all have to preemptively justify publicly why someone might think our horse’s blanket rub is a sign of abuse or whatever? Maybe it’s something they don’t care to disclose (some people are really funny about sarcoids and that could potentially decrease the horse’s value).
I’m trying to figure out the timeline of trying to call this to someone’s attention for 10 days. The horse didn’t show at Devon for 10 days. She was continuing to try to get an official to do something even after the pro divisions ended (and presumably this horse left)?
How does this horse go well enough to pin in the professional divisions at Devon and yet need so much spur on JUST THE LEFT that it would cause a gaping open wound. Doesn’t that make less sense than this being something else entirely? Like an older scar that no longer grows hair or a place where a growth was burned/lasered off and it changed the appearance of the area?
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She mostly lost me when she was complaining about the USHJA or USEF president backing out of a podcast on the WEC fight. Don’t know what Piper did to annoy this person but one of the person’s comments to Piper was that she wasn’t acting professionally. Piper’s response was that she couldn’t act professionally bc she was an amateur. Pretty sure the person’s comment was WRT journalism, not riding.
She has to be pretty bright, at least academically, as she has a PhD in chemistry from what is arguably one of the best chem graduate programs in the country (Berkeley).
And whoever does her algorithms is on it. Click on one Facebook post and they pop up everywhere. And liking the page (or subscribing to the podcast?) puts you on the email list.
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Duh, cause Piper said so, so it must be true. Along with continued use of the word “wound” to gin up outrage when it appeared to be a hairless area but nothing beyond that.
Same. And in saying just that in response to her post on the plaid horse amateur board this morning, pretty politely I might add, I was one of the ones blocked from the plaid horse and her personal pages.
The IG post rings much less of concern for horse welfare, and much more of not getting the level of attention from the stewards or rider to which she felt entitled, so like a toddler, pitched a tantrum until she got what she wanted.
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Why and how do you get off being so rude to strangers online? Why are you so angry?
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Why do you think a rider has to thank his horse on Instagram?
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I don’t, I wrote I thought it was interesting. My point being I normally see praise of some sort for the horse in the circles I run in in CA. Clearly it’s an individual attribute. I also wrote happy to be proven wrong if I had missed something in his posts that alluded to that. My judgement of him is based on him showing a horse in that condition, not his Instagram posts.
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In what condition? The whole point here is that exactly none of us, Piper included, know what affliction, if any, the horse has. Also, my earlier comment was pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek.
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In the condition that something appeared to be wrong with him, both to people in person and online…
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“Wrong” or out of the ordinary? “Wrong” is a loaded word with a negative connotation, and clearly, the judges, prize-givers, stewards, and schooling supervisors at the show did not find anything to be “wrong.”
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True. nolirides doesn’t seem to have been there and seen it up close and personal based on a review of their posts, and from what I could tell by zooming in and out, and then in and out again, and again, was that there was an injury, but I couldn’t tell if it was a fresh wound, or an old scar from an injury caused by a horse managing to hurt himself the way horses just seem to do. My eyes just don’t seem to work the way they used to maybe, or it was a pretty useless picture to fry someone by.
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I have no more information than anyone else does.
But what if the vet says there is no reason to not show a horse, that it is fine. Is that enough because it looks different to people on the internet and to some person who admits their issue is that authorities will not give them, someone who has nothing to do with the situation, the details they want?
I went back and watched the video that was posted here after the screen shot of this ‘author’s’ post about the rider’s leg sliding all over and constant spur use. I saw neither in that video.
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I just hate when stuff like this feeds the Outrage Machine with no proof. It has already been featured on “Milestone Equestrian.” 
Perhaps Piper could have done the owner a solid and contacted them first?
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