Manager defends Lynch after FEI report made public

Denis Lynch’s brother and manager, Shay, has defended the Tipperary show jumper after the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) veterinary report into the disqualification of his horse Lantinus emerged at the weekend.

The disqualification last Friday week in Aachen, Germany, precipitated the withdrawal by Horse Sport Ireland of Lynch’s nomination from the Olympics, it being a third time for a horse belonging to the rider to be disqualified for hypersensitivity in 12 months.

Lynch had claimed that, in relation to Lantinus’s disqualification, “at no stage was there any inference from the FEI veterinary commission that the sensitivity was anything other than naturally occurring”.