Trying to make hay from such a minor story just plays into the Fox News game. I don’t get good vibes when I see Dems stooping to their level.
Romney was dropped from the case after 18 months of litigation.
I saw what you did there.
Yeah, just horsin’ around.
But I took the reins from Gyrate: “Except that my original point was that no hay was being made of this at all…”
I’d think that a minimum would be to fire the guy and take legal action (after all, she can buy a dozen attack lawyers like I buy a dozen pairs of socks) sufficient to make sure he’s never in a position to do that crap again.
Trainer to Ann: "Nonsense! You know how upset Super Hit always is when a vet is working on him, and always needs a light sedative for everyone’s safety and comfort; that’s all he had, just the usual. I don’t know where this lab is getting these other two drug traces from – maybe they don’t clean their equipment properly?
"And this buyer who’s suing – look, her own vet acknowledged he knew the horse had been medicated, and he told her about Super Hit’s pre-existing condition, not to mention she was riding the horse for a year before she decided he was unfit for further use. Who knows what sort of damage she did to him herself? And now she’s trying to pass the blame off onto us and extract money from us to to pay for her own stupid mistakes. This is all just a load of nonsense from a greedy golddigger who sees your wealth as her own little piggybank.
“Now, enough of that. I’m delighted to tell you that Rafalca is coming along beautifully and the odds are excellent that the selection committee will pick her for the Olympics. Let’s go look at her while the staff get your horse ready for your lesson today.”
Sorry, Steve, but your scenario would never happen in the Romney dressage world.
I don’t see how this is a story at all at this point. Well experted, Eddy.
You can take the quotes off that word, mister; it’s mentally and physically demanding, even gruelling, to do well at dressage, especially at the upper levels – or do you regard, say, figure skating as “prissy” and not a genuine athletic endeavor?
Personally, I don’t regard any athletic endeavor with wholly subjective scoring as a sport. That includes cheerleading, figure skating, dressage, gymnastics and ski jumping.
Thanks. I can’t stand Mitt, and I doubt Ann has the faintest idea what life is really like outside her pretty little bubble of lifelong privilege, but I’m not going to sit quietly by and let unfair innuendo go unchallenged when I know what’s far more likely to be true.
Especially when the people criticizing have no idea how much hard sweaty work it is to get to here even when that “here” is the very lowest level of the dressage world!
I take your point, but if one defines sport in terms of the physical and mental efforts required to perform it rather than the scoring of performance in competition, then I contend you are wrong.
In that case, bricklaying or carpentry would be sports. 
Don’t be silly; unlike sports, they’re useful functions and aren’t much fun. 
That seems to make runway modeling a sport.
Note, I think dressage is a sport.
Well, not everyone can be Catherine the Great.
(yes, yes, apocryphal, I know. Cecil wrote a column about it, donchernow.)
I don’t think ski jumping is purely subjective; I believe length of the jump and style go into how it’s scored.
You’re right. Strike that one from the list.
Style isn’t subjective ? 
Come to think of it, just how does one define a sport? Is competition necessary? For example, if I ski cross-country but don’t enter any races, am I engaging in the sport of cross-country skiing? Methinks this could be a topic for IMHO.
This debate was settled a long time ago.
I think he means style as in the style of the landing. As in, you do this and you get 2 points. You do that and get 5 points, or whatever.