Charlotte Dujardin has “paid very heavily” after a video emerged of her whipping a horse 24 times in a minute, her longtime mentor and former teammate Carl Hester said on Tuesday. Hester, who competed in the opening day of the dressage event on Tuesday, said the leaked filmed video of the six-time Olympic medallist taken during a training session four years ago was a shock to him.
“That video is fairly obvious and nobody’s going to support that, you can’t,” he said. “But my personal opinion of Charlotte over 17 years – I have not seen that.”
