Jennifer Jones - Rider Education

10/06/2023

13/10/2022

Simples 😁

02/10/2022

Feel free to add to the list😊

07/08/2021

Yes..

TOKYO 2020 WOMEN'S MODERN PENTATHLON



I was disappointed to watch the jumping in the Women's Modern Pentathlon. There appears to be little compassion shown for the horses.

""Former British pentathlete Heather Fell said in commentary for the BBC Schleu was living a "real life nightmare". "This is hard to watch, hard to commentate on," Fell added.""

"Charlie Beckett said: "Watching someone's Olympic dreams snatched away from them just because a random horse doesn't want to go round a course is absolutely heartbreaking. Modern pentathlon is absolutely brutal.""

Broadcaster Niall McGrath wrote: "The pentathlon is absolutely brutal in the Olympics. How can you not feel for the competitors when the horses don't co-operate, years of work down the drain - total lottery."

One commentator appeared to at least recognise and acknowledge that the horse was distressed. "Nick Holder wrote: "That show jumping element of the pentathlon is nuts. Twenty minutes to bond with a horse. Ridiculous. That poor German girl given an apparently distressed horse and losing a big overall lead. Stupid.""

I think its time there was a review of the welfare of horses used in the Modern Pentathlon. This is so far away from the management of the horses in the Dressage, Eventing and Jumping at Bajikoen. Sadly I feel there may be more of the same to come today in the Men's Modern Pentathlon competition.

14/02/2021

This is encouraging!

The proposal to allow bitless dressage was put forward on sporting fairness and welfare grounds by several riders whose horses can no longer be bitted owing to dental reasons