There was nothing difficult about it. When you are riding a sound horse, and it suddenly goes lame, a little or a lot, you immediately get off and check to see if it's serious or not. That is if you care. If it's not, you continue. There was no reason here for an error in judgment.
On a forum that is designed to debate issues, to let people voice opinions, it's a cop out to suddenly say, let's not voice an opinion till the investigation is over. I don't care what the FEI says, this is my opinion, I'm not going to wait to have someone else do my thinking. I can see the same video they are looking at, and I can make an opinion.
Becky
Fine, you can have an opinion. No one is saying you can’t. But the fact that you have not addressed the point I raised—that sometimes it is impossible to tell what is wrong or how serious a problem is when a horse goes off, particularly on uneven ground—makes it unclear what your level of experience is, and thus how much stock to place in your opinion. How many times in your life have you had a horse go off under you when he was at a dead gallop? In other words, if you’re really Catherine Henriquet or Sally O’Connor writing incognito, we’re more likely to defer to your wisdom.