Dis-grace Disguised as Grace in Dressage: Rollkur and Excessive Pressure on the Nuchal Ligament as a Training Aid

What You Can Do If You Object to this Fraud:

From a letter I received from the folks at Dressage Disgrace”

Someone suggested contacting or boycotting the FEI sponsors. Here’s the sponsors listed on http://www.fei.com:

* Rolex (I guess I won’t buy that $25,000 watch after all!)
* HSBC Bank
* Alltech (sponsor of 2010 WEG in Lexington)
* Meydan (Dubai racetrack?)
I think Alltech, based here in the US, is the best to approach. They have a lot at stake as sponsors of next years’s WEG: The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held in Lexington, KY, USA from September 25 – October 10, 2010, are the world championships of the eight disciplines recognized by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). Held outside of Europe for the first time, the 16-day competition involving 600 riding competitors and 700 horses from more than 60 countries is expected to be attended by as many as 600,000 spectators and viewed on television by an international audience exceeding 460 million people.

Here are the press contacts. Emails or letters to them will surely make their way to the highest levels.
Press Contact Information:

* Europe & Asia
Ms. Christina Lombard
Tel:+353 1 802 6259
email:clombard@alltech.com

* North America
Mr. Billy Frey
Tel: +1 859 885 9613
email:bfrey@alltech.com

Latin America
Ms. Maria Sol Orts
Tel: +54 2322 499 563
email:morts@alltech.com

Good ways to contribute to the fight against disgrace disguised as grace. Thank you for participating.