Petition for Patrik Kittel

The Swedish dressage rider Patrik Kittel has been under attack of several people who think he abused his horse Watermill Scandic HBC during a trainingsession at Odense. Video's turned up at Youtube and the discussion on hyperflexion started over again all over the internet. There is a petition online to support Patrik Kittel and de FEI Officials who made the discission that nothing happend.

Petition text:
 

We support the decisions made by FEI officials present at the schooling session of Patrik Kittel on Scandic at Odense CDI. We believe that welfare of the horse was not compromised in this schooling session.

We support the research already sponsored and presented by FEI into the technique known as hyperflexion.

We hope the FEI realizes that many people who train ,ride ,compete horses and love top sport do not see abuse in the videos of Kittel and Scandic in the schooling session at Odense.

The horse is not tense, has not a drop of sweat on him, is obviously not breathing hard nor in any way perturbed by his work in a VERY crowded warm-up arena.
We think Kittel is doing an acceptable job to handle a young breeding stallion in such conditions.

We do find it offensive that manipulation, misrepresentation and inaccuracy have been used to vilify one individual.

PLEASE NOTE:
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(Source: HorsUs)