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Pippa Cuckson: "Disinterest in ‘Due Process’ Why Last-Minute Petitions Rarely Work"

Disinterest in ‘Due Process’ Why Last-Minute Petitions Rarely Work

Petitions for and against top hats in dressage involved many people in wasted work due to misunderstandings about the rule-making process.

If you spend all day riding, you won’t have the time or inclination to read weighty tomes about FEI rule changes. But procedural know-how would reduce so much angst and wasted effort for competition riders. For a start, elite dressage athletes would learn why their 11th-hour bid to save the top hat was always doomed.

Their 151-signature petition, involving the sport’s biggest names, garnered much media attention last week and triggered intelligent debate on dressage forums about safety and freedom of choice.

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