Overview
- The welfare group Collectif Pour Les Chevaux released a near eight‑minute clip of Charlotte Dujardin riding Alive and Kicking during warm‑up at the Amsterdam World Cup.
- The organisation alleged constant rein pressure, spur use and visible ‘conflict behaviour’ by the mare, calling the riding unethical.
- Equine vet Eva van Avermaet, who filmed the session, said she reported the riding to a steward and observed no change afterward.
- The BEF said it is impossible to assess welfare from a shortened excerpt of what it described as a 45‑minute warm‑up and reaffirmed its commitment to horse wellbeing.
- No new formal disciplinary action has been reported, with the episode renewing attention to Dujardin’s prior one‑year FEI ban for conduct contrary to horse welfare.