She is an animal abuser.
Not because she rides dressage, which when done properly is the most humane and gentle system of training.
But because when one of her horses, Super Hit, was crippled due to a congenital hoof defect, instead of doing the humane thing and retiring him to a "career" that wouldn't cause harm, she drugged him with surgery-level analgesics, forced him to continue performing at a level that was clearly harming him, cheated in competition with drugs that are so unavailable that they don't even test for them, until he couldn't "win" (if you call cheating winning 
) for her any more, and then attempted to defraud a buyer to the tune of $125K by drugging him in the pre-purchase exam.
Ok, her trainer did the actual drugging, but as a lifelong horsewoman and dressage rider, I can tell you she had to know what was going on. And if she's a worse rider than she imagines so didn't feel it, then when she found out via the lawsuit, she should have fired the trainer instead of helping him represent the US at the Olympics. EOS.
Edited to add: Oh, and this was a horse she claimed to be "fond of." Can you imagine how she'd treat "you people" she's not "fond of?" 
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