Kürten comes out fighting

JESSICA KÜRTEN came out fighting this week, with her lawyer sending a hard-hitting letter to the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) regarding its testing of the B sample taken from Castle Forbes Maike.

An A sample from the mare tested positive at La Baule, France, in May for an as-yet unknown substance and the B sample was tested last Tuesday at the LCH in Paris.

The FEI said yesterday that the results will be known today, but Kürten questioned the integrity of the testing procedure after her representative, University of Zurich academic Dr Laurent Bigler, was barred from witnessing the analysis.