| Title: | Equine Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151 |
| Moderator: | MTADMS::COBURN IO |
| Created: | Tue Feb 11 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2080 |
| Total number of notes: | 22383 |
Paul Schokem�hle, the German international show jumper, has got himself
into a whole heap of trouble over the last few weeks over "rapping".
The controversy has effected Germany's participation in the Equestrian
World Championships in Sweden.
Two weeks ago two German magazines and a TV station did an expos� on
Schokem�hle's training methods which included rapping. Rapping is
raising the top bar of a fence to bring it in contact with a horse's
legs as the horse jumps it to "encourage" the horse to jump clean.
Schokem�hle claimed only to be using "light bamboo poles" but the
pictures show something different.
This became a big time sporting scandal in Germany. Paul Schokem�hle
has announced he is selling his horse business, the sponsor of a horse
show he organizes dropped out so the show has been cancelled and some
of his students, also shown on the TV pictures have dropped out of the
German show jumping team.
Having just been in Germany on a trip for Digital, I was surprised to
see 10minutes of a TV news programme devoted to the scandal some six
days after it first broke. Two weeks later, the German paper I got on
the plane from M�nich to London has an article on the issue.
Personally I believe that those, both trainers and riders, resorting
to "rapping" should be equally "encouraged" by having an electric
cattle prod applied to them at the same critical moment.
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| 1316.1 | NRADM::ROBINSON | did i tell you this already??? | Wed Jul 25 1990 13:30 | 6 | |
There is a letter to the editor on this (called `poling')
in the beginning of this month's Yankee Pedlar.
Sherry
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| 1316.2 | Blurb in the Chronicle also | STNDUP::LMCCROSSAN | Time out for a hot fudge sundae | Wed Jul 25 1990 14:06 | 2 |
The most recent "Chronicle of the Horse" also talks about this whole incident... | |||||
| 1316.3 | This can have disastrous results.... | TFOR2::GOODNOW | Wed Jul 25 1990 14:26 | 8 | |
I had a friend who was jumping her horse, and the trainer was rapping
him with a bamboo pole.... well, the pole snapped and the horse came
down on it. The jagged edge went right into his chest and he was
killed. Very sad and unnecessary.
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| 1316.4 | "RAPPING USED BY THE UNTALENTED...." | VANISH::PAGE | Thu Aug 16 1990 10:41 | 7 | |
" RAPPING " it is discusting, the sick people who use this method,
obviously have no real talent in producing a horse. Showjumping in
England, is becoming a "coyboys game", basically it is the tacky,
suspicous charactors who indulge in this sort of behaviour..!!!!
I agree, the people who do this to horses, should at the same time,
have an electric cattle prodder up their a***...that will make then
jump...!!!!!!
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