From Graham Barker, London, UK
Christa Lesté-Lasserre discusses the furore over a horse being whipped while training for dressage events, but doesn’t address the major concern: why make a horse dance to order? If animals are unwelcome in circuses, why make a horse dance carrying a rider and call it a sport? Why “train” a horse to jump a very high fence for events like showjumping when an “untrained” one would be happy with no more than 2 or 3 feet? Why are horses in the Olympics at all(10 August, p 21)?
