While I don’t think that her ride would warrant a visit from the SPCA, it was a really bad display of poor horsemanship and while I wish the SPCA had more stringent rules on what constitutes abuse, all horses deserve to be treated with respect and kindly. That horse is a saint. I think she needs to find a new hobby.
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She needs to hire one who can manage tenses.
Shelley is dead in the first paragraph (since someone writes about her in the past perfect tense), and her production company, Magnolia Whatever, gets founded with 20 years already under it’s belt.
Srsly. How is that good PR?
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I would think the trainer has some culpability in this train wreck, do we know who he/she is?
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The trainer is (or was at the time) Jane Arrasmith; she got all of her gold scores on pre-made horses owned by Shelley Browning over the course of a 7+ year training relationship with Shelley Browning, and we’ve already had pages and pages of COTH apologia about how it’s apparently unfair to expect trainers whose clients are purchasing international quality GP horses from the Dutch to:
- demonstrate the ability to train even a single horse up the levels
- maintain the training on $$$$ horses that were bought made
- teach their clients to ride better than coked up lemurs in 7 years
- prevent such a wretched sh*tshow from going in the ring in the first place.
Apparently it’s so hard to be a dressage trainer in Malibu that the standard indicators for competence, ethics, and concern for the horse’s welfare no longer apply.
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Well, the other way to read this sentence…
<<"Shelley was a successful, competitive equestrian all of her life, with particular interest in dressage riding. >>
is that Shelley is ALIVE but is no longer a “successful, competitive equestrian.” Based on her Del Mar performance, that might not be fake news 
In all seriousness, when what you’re trying to do is bump bad press down in search results, you don’t care what the “good” links really say. You just want them to show up before the bad ones. Which is probably why they’re not doing heavy proofreading on the “good” links. They don’t really intend anyone to read/think about them seriously.
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Ugh I had forgotten how terrible those rides were. Must be nice to be able to purchase your way to that level.
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Some local executive around here (I believe) was fired after someone went public online with elevator surveillance footage showing him shanking around a big dog while he was alone on an elevator.
His job had nothing to do with animals.
While I didn’t condone his animal handling skills, I don’t think they should be cause for getting fired from an entirely unrelated career.
Same to SB. She’s fair game to the equestrian community. But she probably isn’t riding worse than many 15 year old back yard barrel racers, and certainly hasn’t done anything that deserves being penalized in her nonanimal professional life.
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Optimized that for ya. But I laughed hard enough to snort coffee on my keyboard by your #3, so I’m afraid I wasn’t able to add keywords or set up any bots.
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I’m pretty ok with people facing professional repercussions for mistreating others (animals included) in ways that don’t directly impact their work. Not a lot of people would argue that it’s unfair for a company to fire a child molestor from a job that doesn’t put him/her in contact with children, and I’d argue that it’s just a matter of society enforcing its own mores when an exec is asked to resign after they’re caught on camera kicking a puppy in an elevator.
If some Hollywood folks want to stay clear of people who treat horses roughly, whether that’s a starfishing teen barrel racer or a punitive dressage diva with the means to buy her way to the top of the sport, I certainly wouldn’t be able to raise a moral objection to that decision.
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OMG the name dropping I couldn’t read past the first paragraph!
Shelley Browning grew up in Calabasas with close ties to the world of entertainment. Her father, Roger Davis, was a prominent William Morris partner and officer, and her childhood home had frequent visits from Elvis Presley, Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen.
Whoopdy DOOOOOO
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I hope someone is apologizing to that horse every.single.day. for the rest of his life. Beyond angelic that his little protests were so humble.
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Can’t forget Axel Steiner’s “OUCH” when Shelley double barrel spurred her horse, or maybe it was during the times she yanked his mouth. Axel said “OUCH” a couple of times.
I think this is SO weird:
“She has owned all her horses from her first mount, purchased by her father from a backyard in Sylmar, California, to her current horse purchased in Holland two years ago, and, like most riders she knows and has cherished every one of them…”
Congratulations for owning all of your own horses (even the one purchased by your father)…!!!
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Under its belt, not “it’s belt”
Glass houses and all that.
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It just got a little harder; their barn was destroyed in the fire.
Dripping sarcasm intended.
Karma
17 posts in 7 years and this is what you come up with.
Wow, just wow. :eek:
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I am sad to hear this. Hopefully the horses were all evacuated well ahead, but even so, evacuation is hard on the horses. There are also quite a few people there who aren’t part of the SB drama, and equally impacted.
Even given the worst perspective on that debacle, I don’t think anyone deserves this kind of trauma.
Praying for all those in the fire’s path.
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No. Just no.
I’m no SB fan, but very few people in the history of this world have done anything horrific enough to deserve to have an inferno sweep down on them and the animals they love. The Del Mar fiasco doesn’t even come close to putting any villains on that list.
My heart goes out to anyone who’s had to evacuate horses in these California wildfires, and even more so to the people who didn’t have time to do so. This article mentions ways to contribute to various efforts to help displaced people and animals, and there are several private efforts on FB to source supplies, volunteers, and funds to care for equines evacuated or found in the wake of the fires, in case anyone feels compelled to help.
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Well said!
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