2nd 5*, he was at KY last year as well
They are explicitly not that type of person. I know who they are.
I’m not sure what misinformed opinion pieces there are that they’ve posted… I certainly haven’t seen them but I also can’t claim to have read every single post.
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Agreed
I stand corrected. Thanks
Just a reminder it’s posts like the one mentioned here that drove a veterinarian to suicide recently after a video of him surfaced that plenty of people had an opinion on.
The German style of riding and training is very different than the way Americans are so quickly to give up.
Is it ideal? Absolutely not. But the horse was im sure well looked after.
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It looked bad to me. If my horse takes a fall like that I would probably get off to check all 4 legs and make sure there are not injuries. The thing is a horse can run on adrenaline and have an injury without noticing it. I would not simply continue on like there was no issue. I think calling this one out was the right thing to do.
I don’t care for internet celebrities at all, but this literally blew up on my facebook page.
Maybe a good time to revisit those rules.
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He was held at the jog today and eventually released.
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I believe they said on the live stream that today is his 24th birthday.
They also said that he had his birthday at Kentucky last year as well.
My opinion as someone who was kind of sort of on the inside all weekend is that there was so little drama at this year’s event that the arm chair quarterbacks had to create some.
Yesterday I was patting everyone on the back for a near-perfect cross country day. Then I woke up this morning, totally confused to learn that the Internet somehow created a mountain out of a molehill.
I hope to heck CB doesn’t read any of the Internet drivel about him.
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To have competed twice at Rolex by 24 requires a lot of talent, grit, resources, and ambition. I think it is unrealistic for me, who thinks 3’ is a wall to assess how I personally would have responded in this level of competition with that amount of pressure and more than a decade less of life experience. There are lots of decisions I made under much less pressure that I look back at and think in hindsight I would have made a very different call. Having to learn how to be a professional equestrian under the eyes of the media is not something I envy.
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The original page is a self proclaimed “Biomechanics Enthusiast”. I cannot take this seriously.
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Case in point. The hold was most likely a result of his extreme stumble, it’s the only chance for the veterinary and official team to get a closer look at the horse. The hold is the only time a veterinarian without association to the rider is able to get their hands on and inspect a horse and deem it fit to compete and allow them to represent to the ground jury.
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That is not true.
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As someone who has spent plenty of time on the veterinary side of the hold box at this event, it is.
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As someone who was there, I can assure you it’s not.
Look, I’m not trying to be argumentative or get myself in trouble. But the jog was not the first time the horse was thoroughly examined by unaffiliated vets.
I would bet the house he was spun out of due diligence, but it wasn’t the “only” time he was gone over.
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All of this. I was fairly on the inside this year too.
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@alyssaequestrian I swear I’m not trying to argue with you, but you had me curious how we could have such different experiences. So I pulled up the vet regulations:
https://inside.fei.org/sites/default/files/2025%20Veterinary%20Regulations%20-%20clean.pdf
Article 1045 explains how any horse can be examined by the official vets or stewards at any time and the protocols for doing so. And that aligns with my own experience over the years.
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https://m.youtube.com/shorts/rPvtsZiw_TI
This is the fall in question. Poster is Millstream Equestrian, for disclosure if you do / don’t want to give clicks.
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People have been posting controversial videos since Facebook existed and no horse sport has been killed. There are multiple forms of horse sport that I have been horrified by that still happily continue despite videos posted on the internet.
I’ve seen just as many posts from people getting super angry at anyone who finds anything wrong with what happened, saying that if you don’t “ride at that level” you can’t talk.
Isn’t it just as bad to try to stifle conversation in cases of possible poor riding or abuse/neglect?
Haven’t we discussed extensively the rider who’s horse had a huge bit and blood all over it’s mouth, the rider that whipped his exhausted horse, the rider that pressed her exhausted horse until it fell, etc?
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It was also posted under milestone something another.
I am starting to just block all the nasty pages that are making money on supposed animal abuse and calling out the people at the top. They manufacture drama and just stir the pot.
If they weren’t fueled by $$$ I might have a different opinion but the goal is $$ not horse welfare.
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