Call for Olympic equestrian ban as Dujardin video surfaces
Animal rights charities, including Peta and Animal Rising, have called on the Olympics to ban sports which involve the use of horses after a video surfaced of British dressage star Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse. Orla Coghlan from Animal Rising described the video as “completely horrific”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well I think it's completely horrific and we can see from the footage that the horse is clearly
00:05very distressed, he's bucking, he's running away and you know she hits him I think 24 times in
00:11the space of one minute of that video footage and it's I think clear to anyone who sees the video
00:18that yeah this is causing a lot of distress and pain for the horse. Is it ethical to be using
00:22horses for sport and for using them, using them for our entertainment and honestly I think the
00:28answer to that is no. In 2024 there are better ways that we can participate in sport that we
00:34can enjoy a weekend that don't harm animals. It's absolutely horrendous and it's also just
00:40completely unacceptable and what also makes this even worse is that this is not an isolated event
00:46this is representative of widespread abuse amongst this so-called sport and especially
00:52in dressage horses are forced into unnatural difficult and awkward actions that they would
00:59just never naturally do in the wild and this is why a lot of trainers and riders resort to
01:05coercive and violent methods it's to get them to do what they want but this comes with the
01:11complete lack of care about what's actually in the horse's best interest.