Help End Horse Abuse in the Olympics

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What if hitting and whipping horses were Olympic events? You don’t have to stretch your imagination too much—Olympic equestrian events might as well be called horse abuse contests. 😡

Forcing horses to zigzag between and jump over obstacles for screaming crowds is bad enough, but pics and vids have also shown:

A British Olympic equestrian team member whipping a horse’s legs over and over during a training session.
A German pentathlon competitor whipping a horse named Saint Boy during the competition after he refused to enter the course. Her coach was then shown hitting the clearly startled horse.
A show jumper hitting a horse named Good Luck over and over at an event in California.

A horse named Jet Set seeming to get hurt in the middle of a cross-country course during the 2020 Olympic Games. Veterinarians said he had an irreparable ligament rupture in one of his legs, and he was euthanized.
An Irish rider forcing a horse named Kilkenny to finish a show jumping event while blood poured from the horse’s nose.
A Brazilian Olympic equestrian team member forcing a horse’s neck into an extremely painful, hyperflexed position. This banned training method can make it hard for horses to breathe and damage their spine.

YOU have the power to make a change. Thanks to constant pressure from animal advocates, the 2028 Olympics will be the first to hold the Modern Pentathlon without horse events, replacing them with an American Ninja Warrior-style obstacle course. 🎉 Getting all horse events out of the Olympics is 100% possible—but we have to speak up now.

Please sign our petition urging the International Olympic Committee to remove all equestrian events ASAP!

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Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

I urge the International Olympic Committee to ban equestrian events from future Olympic Games, particularly in light of the video that has recently surfaced showing former British Olympic equestrian team member Charlotte Dujardin whipping a horse during a training session.

The incident is hardly an isolated one.

At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, a visibly upset German pentathlon competitor, Annika Schleu, was filmed spurring and whipping a horse named Saint Boy after he refused to enter the course. Then Schleu’s trainer, Kim Raisner, was filmed hitting the horse and was rightfully expelled from the games.

Jet Set, a horse ridden by Swiss competitor Robin Godel, was injured so badly during a cross-country event that he had to be euthanized. And even though a horse named Kilkenny had blood pouring from his nostrils, Irish rider Cian O’Connor forced him to finish the course. Officials didn’t suspend the competition to check on him.

We live in a world that increasingly refuses to accept abuse of animals in any form. Just as the Olympics have evolved to include sports that are of current interest—like skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing—it’s time to change and remove “sports” that are no longer supported by the public or risk losing your social license to operate.

Sincerely,

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