FEI Stewards: Hired by the Show, Judging the Riders?!

WALKING AND TALKING!! Let’s talk about @fei stewards, deep breath, it’s not what you think. Stewards being hired, fired, and paid by the show management is a blatant conflict of interest, like students hiring and paying their teachers. How stewards are hired and the pathway of how they are paid needs to be changed to improve their independence. Furthermore, the repercussions for misusing and breaking the rules should work the same as those for athletes. It needs to be more public so the punishment for one has tangible behavioral adjustments for all. Just how doping punishments work for athletes. Stewards need more independence, coupled with much more open oversight.