At 9pm on Monday, just days before she was due to trot out to applause in the stunning setting of the Palace of Versailles, a devastating 59-second video of her repeatedly whipping a horse ‘like ...

Alphonse Le Grande has been reinstated as the winner of this year’s Cesarewitch on a technicality after rider Jamie Powell was found to have used his whip nine times and not 10. In the immediate ...

In the video, Dujardin appears to use an equestrian's whip to strike the legs of the horse up to 24 times. According to Dutch lawyer Stephan Wensing, who reported the offence on behalf of his ...

Padded whips may only be allowed to back up leg aids – and not to punish the horse – in British Showjumping (BS) from 1 January, in part of rule changes with a “strong focus on equine ...

If whip rules were changed, says John, people would quickly forget that the stick was ever used to try and bully half a tonne of horse. I think he’s right – and so are the Swedes. I make no ...