A showing producer and judge is being investigated in connection with a video that has been widely shared online.

Footage of a horse in a turnout pen in full tack with a backing dummy on board and its head strapped to the saddle were circulated this month. Showing societies have released statements – and a petition calling for a lifetime ban from “keeping, training or working horses in any capacity” has more than 2,770 signatures.

Charlotte Brunt shared the video, which has been seen more than 500,000 times.

She told the footage had initially been shared by the non-horsey dog walker who took it, and who wants to remain anonymous. She said the walker saw the horse on her way past, then again when she came back and took the video as “she thought something didn’t seem right”.

“I didn’t

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