Banned from the Olympics
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Link to video
https://www.bbc.com/sport/equestrian/articles/cw0y240r78qo
Britain's Dujardin, a six-time Olympic dressage medallist, withdrew from the Paris Games on Tuesday after the video emerged, saying it showed her "making an error of judgement".
The video, obtained by the BBC, shows Dujardin repeatedly whipping a horse around its legs during the session.
After her withdrawal from the Olympics, the 39-year-old was provisionally suspended by equestrian's governing body the FEI, which received the footage on Monday.
Dujardin said in a statement: "What happened was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils, however there is no excuse.
"I am deeply ashamed and should have set a better example in that moment."
Speaking to BBC Sport, the whistleblower's lawyer, Stephan Wensing, said his client had mixed feelings about the reaction since the news broke, but she believed it is a widespread issue in dressage.
@jodi knows much more about dressage than I ever will, but I'll throw in my comment anyway. A dressage whip should be nothing more than a "cue" to the horse. When I was riding a couple of years ago, I had a "lazy" horse. The instructor handed me a crop and all of a sudden, with that "motivation" in hand, the horse got more perky. All I had to do was touch her flank and she would respond. Only took once, or perhaps twice.
You never beat the horse with a crop or a whip. The idea is to get the horse to pay attention and to respond with a specific movement when touched in a specific spot.
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Dressage, as a sport, is in trouble.
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Shucks, let's bring in barrel racing, calf roping and bull riding.
Barrel racing is all about the horse, calf roping takes a great horse, a great horseman and a heckuva roper.
Bull riding? Well, it gives cattle some Olympic love and everybody gets excited over a big wreck.
