Without wanting to get too personal, the Wednesbury principle rarely seems to apply to the horse world (for non-lawyers this just means that decisions by publicly funded bodies need to be rational). Whether for judging, selection, horse, pony, international, local or anything. The key is to learn to suck it up and try and enjoy yourself; accepting that life just isn’t fair. The difficulty is that this usually just makes the blood boil with the opacity and subjectivity of it all.
Whatever the overall utopian objectives, the basically embedded conflicts of interest in most equine systems, personal prejudice and terror of non-conformity militate in an exaggerated way against the perception of a level playing field. Which is sad as most people start of with the best of intentions.
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