Really, Dressage Hub?

[Scribbler]

You can post rubbish about celebrities and politicians and get your audience to argue about it because your audience is so far away from the corridors of power that these people are just cartoon figures to them, and indeed to you. Politics as WWF match compete with a masked villain.

It’s a very different thing to post personal spite about participants in a small hobby world, because many in your audience will know these people IRL (or even be those people) and be personally offended. Then if you delete their comments because they attack you personally, you are destroying the lifeblood of a blog, which is the community it creates among participants.

DHub has lost the plot as far as running a “controversial” blog.

Of course I don’t believe that was the original model. The original DHub was meant to be a news and promo site for Florida and national dressage, with content from DHub’s coach at the time. Lots of her online followers date from that time.

When that relationship went sideways, DHub started to use the existing platform to try to taunt and humiliate her former coach, and burned her bridges in Florida.

So​​​​​​ there was never a plan to develop a controversial or provocateur persona. It’s just been train wreck of interpersonal spite since the original plan went off the rails.

[BigMama1]

@LiberalSnowflake

Now that Tryon seems to be trucking along nicely, she’s not saying much at all. Nothing to hate on, I guess. It’s been fun watching the comment feed on her WEG hater posts, anyone not agreeing with her gets their comments deleted post haste. It’s interesting to watch a “business” self combust in real time.

That’s because she reserves the really nasty, delusional, and mentally unbalanced posts for her personal page.

[MatthewHopkins]

I didn’t know whether to put this here or on the Dickinson thread, but decided in the end that the title of this older conversation says it all.
Could this gruesome pair of charlatans really be in league? It is curious to say the least that DH has gone out of her way not to share the video of Dickinson’s sustained, abusive riding if her reason for being is welfare advocacy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJxT6-b4v_A

[Bogey2]

She is despicable…still!

[catzndogz22]

@MatthewHopkins

Could this gruesome pair of charlatans really be in league? It is curious to say the least that DH has gone out of her way not to share the video of Dickinson’s sustained, abusive riding if her reason for being is welfare advocacy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJxT6-b4v_A

For those of us who avoid clicking links to Dressage Hub, the link above leads to a Roger That YouTube page. He’s very critical of Dressage Hub.

[Scribbler]

So a barn friend found Dressage Hub for the first time following the CDJ incident. Barn friend told me about SW’s current self identity origin story.

Apparently SW was in Florida with a top trainer who forced her to ride in an abusive manner, and SW was run out of the show scene when she tried to expose the bad training. Also the trainer stole her saddle.

I do not recall anything like that when SW was having her toxic online meltdown.

Of course no one that knows about SW backstory will follow her page anymore so all her followers are new to the thing and naive. I explained as good as I could to my friend that you can’t believe what you see online. But apparently she had fully believed SW.

[Roger_East]

Thank you for sharing

[LiberalSnowflake]

I just saw this on Susan Wachowich’s Dressage Hub FB page - she’s stating that Robert Dover grooms little girls and supplies them to others?

[Bogey2]

OMG he’s not even in to girls. Why anyone even follows her anymore is beyond me. She is just so evil.

[Pehsness]

I was reading this thread and someone said it well - she gets all the newbs. People entering the industry who want to “do it right”, and she reels them in with her tik toks etc.

[Mondo]

I think someone needs to share this with Mr. Dover. That’s libel, pure and simple. I’d be suing her ass into the poorhouse if I were him. And yes, he’s gay, so not “grooming little girls” ffs.

[Zonderpaard]

Ditto.

[kt]

@Mondo

I think someone needs to share this with Mr. Dover. That’s libel, pure and simple. I’d be suing her ass into the poorhouse if I were him. And yes, he’s gay, so not “grooming little girls” ffs.

Oh believe me, he’s seen it. Just keep scrolling. She’s been going after him for weeks. She’s been relentless in repetitive attacks against riders and judges recently, including Dover, Pammy Hutton (in the UK), Catherine Haddad Staller, Janet Foy, etc. I literally have no idea how she hasn’t been sued to high heaven and how she’s allowed to keep on running her mouth the way she does. And how there are people who believe her!! Just this week she posted a video ranting about how because there were only 8 finishers in the Maryland 5*, 70% of the horses had “catastrophic falls” on XC. I mean it wasn’t even CLOSE to the truth. All they had to do was pull up the results! But people ate up that BS!!

[Pehsness]

She really must be making enough on the clickbait. In Canada you can’t (as far as I know) get paid from tik tok. But she’s figured out how to monetize slander I guess (or libel? I never know which is correct).

[islgrl]

@kt

Oh believe me, he’s seen it. Just keep scrolling. She’s been going after him for weeks. She’s been relentless in repetitive attacks against riders and judges recently, including Dover, Pammy Hutton (in the UK), Catherine Haddad Staller, Janet Foy, etc. I literally have no idea how she hasn’t been sued to high heaven and how she’s allowed to keep on running her mouth the way she does. And how there are people who believe her!! Just this week she posted a video ranting about how because there were only 8 finishers in the Maryland 5*, 70% of the horses had “catastrophic falls” on XC. I mean it wasn’t even CLOSE to the truth. All they had to do was pull up the results! But people ate up that BS!!

I deplore the way this woman operates and agree that she should be shut down. But by my read there were only 8 finishers of the 5 star at Maryland? Am I reading it wrong? 7 others retired on course and 6 were eliminated. (unless your point was not about the finishers and more about catastrophic falls, I know nothing about the details for the retired on course and eliminations)

[millerra]

8 finishers, the remaining due to catastrophic falls? pure bs. As the score board says - eliminated or retiring (which shows good horsemanship, btw).

[MHM]

I believe Boyd Martin fell on cross country and was eliminated as a result.

But it did not sound like there was anything catastrophic about it. He got on a plane and went to France for the next event within a day or two. And he said his horse was fine.

[kt]

My point was about the catastrophic falls. There is no arguing the number of finishers-- that is a fact and another topic entirely that has been discussed on the Eventing forum. But a catastrophic fall (at least in my mind) implies at a minimum, career-ending if not ultimately life-ending injuries. She was basically saying 70% of the field (those who did not finish) had that outcome. Which is ridiculous and designed to manufacture outrage. I believe there were a few horse injuries on course but to my knowledge, all updates after the fact were that the horses were ok.

[Mardi1]

@Bogey2

OMG he’s not even in to girls.

Um, that’s not the point of the claim.

[Bogey2]

LOL, so which part of the claim? The responder or DH’s claim? Both lack credibility.