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Pippa Cuckson
11:15 - 28 December, 2018
A loophole that enabled fatal or career-threatening equine injuries to be “airbrushed” out of FEI results has been tackled by the FEI’s new temporary endurance committee.
The FEI has used emergency powers to approve the new rule, just days after it was drafted under the chairmanship of Britain’s Dr Sarah Coombs.
From 1 February, endurance judges can apply a new severe injuries (SI) elimination code, which will carry the same sanctions for riders as the existing catastrophic injury (CI) category.
It is hoped the SI code will promote transparency and remove incentives to prolong an injured horse’s suffering...
Read more at https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/fei-uses-emergency-powers-improve-care-seriously-injured-endurance-horses-674294#OKHT6OCbWqDZQ1g7.99
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