Unsportsmanlike conduct at Hampton Classic

[Palm_Beach]

@BrookdaleBay

https://youtu.be/fn0WhwiUUMA

Same lovely rider, different horse, this time a jumper round. Look how kindly she pulled him up at the end of the round.

I wonder what she was trying to teach him by yanking him up like that? Do you think he connected the dots? :no:

[Winding_Down]

@BrookdaleBay

https://youtu.be/fn0WhwiUUMA

Same lovely rider, different horse, this time a jumper round. Look how kindly she pulled him up at the end of the round.

lovely riding!

[SendenHorse]

@Thylacine

meanwhile, the steward who managed not to see anything is still happily going about their anonymous life…

gotta admit to being somewhat baffled by a certain member who keeps telling us to ‘shut up about this’ (while bumping the thread to top. lol) and that ‘we’re all capable of similar behavior’
the same certain member who revels in all the Dressage Maestro type threads and even on this thread mentions eventing rider with a bleeding horse.

so, wheres the empathy for the rider with a bleeding horse if, as has been posted, ‘we are all capable of behaving badly in public’

?

If you are going to describe my posts, please at least be accurate, thanks.

The eventer still makes me ill every time I see the photos. No excuse for that, and no excuse for kicking your horse. I never ever act like that, however, I will not claim as many here to understand every detail why it happened, how to fix it, and why they can do better. that was my issue.

[SendenHorse]

@Thylacine

meanwhile, the steward who managed not to see anything is still happily going about their anonymous life…

gotta admit to being somewhat baffled by a certain member who keeps telling us to ‘shut up about this’ (while bumping the thread to top. lol) and that ‘we’re all capable of similar behavior’
the same certain member who revels in all the Dressage Maestro type threads and even on this thread mentions eventing rider with a bleeding horse.

so, wheres the empathy for the rider with a bleeding horse if, as has been posted, ‘we are all capable of behaving badly in public’

?

Please leave me alone, and quit making up stuff.

[Winding_Down]

@SendenHorse

Please leave me alone, and quit making up stuff.

:lol::lol::lol:

Leave me alone too!

:lol::lol::lol:

[Thylacine]

what is made up?

any thread re “The Dressage Maestro” and there’s your online moniker front and center. tick.
many mentions of ‘wanting to go after’ the eventing rider whose horse bled. tick.
claims that ‘we are all capable of bad public behaviour’. tick.
(oh and then there’s your many threads about a certain susan jochomo (sp) and her dressage blog)

so complaining that we naistee cothers are being a bunch of mean girls picking on this poor little rich woman who threw a public temper tantrum/abused a dumb animal is kinda rich coming from you.

people notice stuff like that. lol

[Gestalt]

@BrookdaleBay

https://youtu.be/fn0WhwiUUMA

Same lovely rider, different horse, this time a jumper round. Look how kindly she pulled him up at the end of the round.

Tactful ride…NOT!

[SendenHorse]

@Thylacine

what is made up?

any thread re “The Dressage Maestro” and there’s your online moniker front and center. tick.
many mentions of ‘wanting to go after’ the eventing rider whose horse bled. tick.
claims that ‘we are all capable of bad public behaviour’. tick.
(oh and then there’s your many threads about a certain susan jochomo (sp) and her dressage blog)

so complaining that we naistee cothers are being a bunch of mean girls picking on this poor little rich woman who threw a public temper tantrum/abused a dumb animal is kinda rich coming from you.

people notice stuff like that. lol

please keep your issues off of someone elses’ thread, I’m getting tired of flagging these posts. The mods do not appreciate these personal digs.

[OverandOnward]

@BrookdaleBay

https://youtu.be/fn0WhwiUUMA

Same lovely rider, different horse, this time a jumper round. Look how kindly she pulled him up at the end of the round.

In my tiny & insignificant opinion she rides much better between the fences than she does over them. Her seat on the landing side is not secure and I am not surprised that a horse would be inclined to suck back, as the gray horse did in the controversy video, and that she might then take a tumble.

Yeah, at the end - either no skill or no patience. Once again, as in the jumping portion, although she potentially has a good seat she does not know how to ride from her seat rather than her hands.

Just my take.

[NeedsAdvil]

The videos I have watched seem to show a very fearful rider. That is probably the root of her issues, and unless she realizes that she is outrunning her headlights by riding at a level she is not comfortable nor completely capable of riding, the temper tantrums will continue.

[MHM]

Update:

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/usef-suspends-jazz-johnson-merton-for-two-months

[findeight]

Thanks for the update.

[OverandOnward]

Thank goodness they did SOMETHING.

But really, with some time and hindsight, this seems to me to be even more outrageous now than it did then. A rider kicks her horse in the belly - in the show ring? Would like to have seen a time-out that is far more significant. Maybe Aug. 1 - Sept. 30 is an important time to miss shows, but in the scheme of things, two months is quickly over and forgotten. By everyone.

But at least it is something.

[MHM]

@OverandOnward

Maybe Aug. 1 - Sept. 30 is an important time to miss shows, but in the scheme of things, two months is quickly over and forgotten. By everyone.

But at least it is something.

I believe they usually do the suspension around the same time of year as the offense, whenever it is.

[Palm_Beach]

I was going to suggest she take riding lessons during her suspension, but I don’t think she should be allowed near horses.

[vxf111]

@MHM

I believe they usually do the suspension around the same time of year as the offense, whenever it is.

Yes, the suspension almost always overlaps/starts at the time of the original infraction. They theory being that if you got in trouble for doing something at a specific show, you should have to sit that show out next year (and then some additional time, depending on the penalty).

[Thylacine]

@vxf111

Yes, the suspension almost always overlaps/starts at the time of the original infraction. They theory being that if you got in trouble for doing something at a specific show, you should have to sit that show out next year (and then some additional time, depending on the penalty).

anyone know which brainiac came up with that ‘‘brilliant’’ (umm not) idea?

total tickle of her wrist - even go as far to say they’re playing Footsie Under The Table, makes such a joke of disciplinary action.

[vxf111]

@Thylacine

anyone know which brainiac came up with that ‘‘brilliant’’ (umm not) idea?

total tickle of her wrist - even go as far to say they’re playing Footsie Under The Table, makes such a joke of disciplinary action.

It makes things less arbitrary. If you ran it from the date of the hearing people would try to use extensions/delay tactics to make the suspension happen at the least painful time. I’m actually of the mindset that this rule makes sense. Get busted at the Hampton Classic? Sit out the next HC.

[Thylacine]

Oh I am all for being suspended from the show where the deed occurred the following year just as an added extra.

it’s the waiting almost 12mths before disciplinary action kicks in (no pun intended) that has me raising my eyebrows.

[SnicklefritzG]

Yes, that means they are sitting out some important shows, not sitting out at a time when there may be less going on (i.e. the dead of winter for folks that don’t spend the entire season in Florida).

@vxf111

It makes things less arbitrary. If you ran it from the date of the hearing people would try to use extensions/delay tactics to make the suspension happen at the least painful time. I’m actually of the mindset that this rule makes sense. Get busted at the Hampton Classic? Sit out the next HC.