US Officials say FEI must tackle endurance problems

By: horsetalk.co.nz

The governing body for long-distance riding in the United States wants the FEI and US Equestrian Federation (USEF) to show their commitment to endurance reform, following the distressing demise of a competition horse in Abu Dhabi with two broken front legs. 

The harrowing image of 12-year-old Australian-bred Splitters Creek Bundy, circulated widely in social media and published by Britain’s Daily Telegraph, shows the horse standing helplessly, having snapped both his cannon bones in the Al Reef Cup, staged in Abu Dhabi on January 31.

The 26-member board of the American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) has expressed its anger and disgust over the death of the horse, along with two others at the endurance event.

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