Equestrian-Video emerges of Briton Dujardin whipping horse's legs

PARIS :The video footage that led to Britain's joint-most decorated female Olympian Charlotte Dujardin pulling out of the Paris Games shows her whipping a horse's legs multiple times.

Dujardin was provisionally suspended on Tuesday after equestrian's governing body launched an investigation into her conduct.

The video, which was aired on the Good Morning Britain news programme on Wednesday, shows Dujardin walking beside the horse, which is carrying another rider, and whipping it along.

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) said they were looking into a video where she had engaged in "conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare".

Djuardin said in a video statement announcing her Olympic withdrawal on Instagram on Tuesday that footage showed her making an error of judgement that was out of character and did not reflect how she trained her horses or coached her pupils.

The FEI received the video from a lawyer on Monday but the complainant was undisclosed.

Reuters has not verified the video.

The British Equestrian Federation did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

FEI veterinarian director Goran Akerstrom told Reuters that what the video showed was absolutely unacceptable.

"Charlotte Dujardin was seen whipping the horse numerous times. You can certainly see that some of the whiplashes hit the horse and the horse was stressed with it," Akerstrom said.

"As this is an ongoing investigation on our side, I can't tell you more than that, but it's clearly a distressing picture."

Akerstrom added that the FEI had put measures in place to address similar violations of equine welfare.

"I'm confident that the measures we are taking now with the FEI action plan for equine welfare are very strong and there are