The science is clear: repeatedly whipping a horse won’t help it learn

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The science is clear: repeatedly whipping a horse won’t help it learn

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Despite generally good welfare for horses at the 2024 Paris Olympics, many animal lovers remain haunted by troubling video footage of Britain’s triple Olympic gold medallist Charlotte Dujardin mistreating a horse during a training session, which emerged just days before the opening ceremony. Dujardin had been set to compete this summer in dressage – the sport in which horses perform elegant steps and dance-like movements, often to music. But there was a public outcry after the video showed her forcefully striking a clearly distressed horse more than 20 times over a minute-long clip.

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