FEI halts move to suspend German show jumper Marco Kutscher
An International Equestrian Federation (FEI) tribunal has denied FEI bosses permission to suspend show jumper Marco Kutscher and former German federation secretary-general Hanfried Haring.
The FEI had announced it wished to suspend the German rider from competition and Mr Haring from the FEI Bureau until the result of a probe by an ethics panel (news, 4 June).
Mr Kutscher, Mr Haring and former team vet Bjorn Notling are being investigated for horse abuse following allegations that treatment given to Mr Kutscher’s horse at the 2008 Olympics caused it to collapse.
A separate investigation into Mr Notling’s actions is ongoing.
This article was first published in Horse & Hound (11 June, ’09)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.