Probably the timing was too short between the notice of sanction and when the Dover catalog went to be laid out/printed for Dover to pull photos even if they wanted to.
What is really sad, though, is that people now look at pictures of him with suspicion.
I’ve gotten 2 winter Dover catalogs (I must have at some point given them my work address), and they both had different covers, neither one featuring Tori.
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I’ve gotten 2 winter Dover catalogs (I must have at some point given them my work address), and they both had different covers, neither one featuring Tori.[/QUOTE]
Dover has used multiple covers for years. I’m not sure details why.
The Dover pic was actually posted on TC’s Facebook page if anyone is interested :lol:
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I just got the catalog and he doesn’t look drugged to me. Not that I can tell from one picture in time.
http://i.imgur.com/Rt5pdLh.jpg (cover)[/QUOTE]
I think the idea is to make the horse a bit calmer, without looking drugged.
Kind of like the difference between one glass of wine and 4 glasses of wine.
Left the HJ world a bunch of years ago. I’m appalled at the fact that there are three threads going about an assortment of actions against the horses. Hunters, jumpers, doesn’t seem to matter. Its horrible, and IMO the USEF really needs to step up the speed of its reviews and the level of its penalties.
I ride my young horse in the jumpers, and while I know bad behavior goes on there it seems at least somewhat less rampant, in my experience. Sure, people over-bit the heck out of a lot of the lower level horses, and I’ve seen some questionable jumps in warm up, but the sedating to win stuff seems much worse to me.
Even if I could afford a competitive hunter you could not get me to touch that side of the discipline with a ten foot pole. I did the hunters as a junior and absolutely people drugged, but having a horse look half-asleep while heaving itself over fences wasn’t particularly rewarded until relatively recently. If I was still doing hunters I’d be pissed as hell that things have gotten to the point they are at, I’d feel offended that my beloved sport had been highjacked so badly, and I’d be trying to figure out what I could do as a competitor to get things onto a different track.
Even if I could afford a competitive hunter you could not get me to touch that side of the discipline with a ten foot pole. I did the hunters as a junior and absolutely people drugged, but having a horse look half-asleep while heaving itself over fences wasn’t particularly rewarded until relatively recently. If I was still doing hunters I’d be pissed as hell that things have gotten to the point they are at, I’d feel offended that my beloved sport had been highjacked so badly, and I’d be trying to figure out what I could do as a competitor to get things onto a different track.[/QUOTE]
I retired by A/O horse last fall fully intending to buy another and have been so horrified by the whole hunter “scene” that permeates from the Derby Finals to the B show down the road I have kept my $ in my pocket. Enjoying my homebred mostly at home. Took him on the road for an AA outing mid-summer and between the shots being given blatantly (in the grooming stalls facing the main hunter ring!) and the trash cans overfloweth with PP we packed up and headed home after an overnight. Disgusting. Mr. Moroney and his cronies AND we as members of the USEF/USHJA need to speak with our wallets.
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Awww, c’mon people. Don’t feed the trolls. Rolex
ready is 1. a troll, 2. an eventer who has come over from the darkside to tell us what is wrong with out sport, 3. both.
Ignore her. Maybe she will go away or else start posting under her real screen name.
And, it seems to me, arguing over whether it is a good or bad thing for a pro to warm up a horse for a nervous ammi has gotten a long way from discussing the suspension of certain BNT’s.[/QUOTE]
Probably Denny himself. 
