Another horse eliminated from the WEG dressage

The second dressage pair was eliminated on Tuesday when Australia’s Hayley Beresford was asked to leave the ring after her horse, Relampago Do Retiro showed lameness in the second extended trot.  The Chronicle is reporting that the horse apparently kicked himself during the half-pass.
Meanwhile, the Dutch bleeding mouth story continues to develop…

Earlier this morning, Adelinde Cornelissen of the Netherlands was eliminated when her horse was visibly bleeding from the mouth during their test.  Eurodressage is reporting that “Parzival bit the tip of his tongue.”  The Chronicle originally reported that the horse bit his lip, but has written a more lengthy report since then quoting Adelinde as saying that the horse bit the tip of his tongue and apparently the Dutch team provided a photo of Parzival’s tongue showing a “tiny dark spot.”  Other online reports conflict between the tongue and the lip, but at this point Eurodressage and the Chronicle are the two most credible reports I have seen so far and they both are reporting that it was the tongue.  In situations like this, the media has to rely heavily on what the rider and team say and it wouldn’t surprise me if we never get the full story.  
Not to belabor the point, but as I wrote this morning and as I still see it, bleeding from the mouth, whether directly or indirectly is likely related to the training methods used on the horse, including the amount of force applied to the horse’s mouth.  Either way hopefully the dressage folks will stop getting eliminated so we can get back to writing about eventing.
Video of Adelinde’s elimination from some random person on Youtube:

Tuesday evening update: Edward Gal and Totilas delivered a 84.043% for first place to lead the Dutch team to gold, and Laura Bechtolsheimer of Great Britain led with British team to silver with a 82.511%.  Go Totilas.
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