There’s Two Elephants in the Blood Rule Debate
The heated debate over the FEI’s “blood rule” has centred on whether a “scratch” or a “bite of the tongue or lips” should automatically disqualify a horse or whether officials can declare such a horse ‘fit to compete’ if it’s no longer bleeding. But this legalistic argument misses a far more important welfare question: where […] The post There’s Two Elephants in the Blood Rule Debate appeared first on Horses and People.
The heated debate over the FEI’s “blood rule” has centred on whether a “scratch” or a “bite of the tongue or lips” should automatically disqualify a horse or whether officials can declare such a horse ‘fit to compete’ if it’s no longer bleeding. But this legalistic argument misses a far more important welfare question: where […]
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