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    Zara Phillips

    Yeah yeah, I know showjumping is probably not a big priority for most OTF-ers, and isn't for me either.

    However, I heard a news item last night that is still baffling me now. "Zara Phillips has withdrawn from the Olympics because of an injury to her horse."

    WTF is this? Is she going to be tending it night and day, tenderly feeding it sugar lumps and liquidised carrots, mopping its fevered brow as it whinnies in pain? Why can't she use another one?

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    Zara Phillips

    Do you mind? Some of us are devastated enough by this news already without your adding flippancy to injury.

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      #3
      Zara Phillips

      She doesn't have another one. They're very expensive to stable, you know.

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        #4
        Zara Phillips

        Sir Danzig.

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          #5
          Zara Phillips

          It's a long tradition, wearing out horses, in that family, going right back to Catherine the Great.

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            #6
            Zara Phillips

            It's pretty normal, the rider builds up a relationship with a specific horse in dressage/show jumping, so if the horse gets injured they just wouldn't be as good on another one. It's not like a new bike or car. They'll have a reserve rider with their own horse I imagine.

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              #7
              Zara Phillips

              Can't she just continue to ride Mike Tindall?

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                #8
                Zara Phillips

                I think carthorses are frowned on at Olympic-level events.

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                  #9
                  Zara Phillips

                  This thread has a very high "Boom-tish" quota doesn't it?

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                    #10
                    Zara Phillips

                    colinwasp wrote:
                    Can't she just continue to ride Mike Tindall?
                    I wish she'd do it a bit harder and break him completely so he never plays for England again, the stonehands bastard.

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