A dressage trainer claimed Charlotte Dujardin has “many enemies” as she denied suspicions in equestrianism that she is the whistleblower behind the horse-whipping video.
Alicia Dickinson confirmed she had a business relationship with Dujardin, which ended after the lesson in which the Olympic champion hit out at the horse 24 times.
However, Dickinson, an Australian who lives in London with her husband and daughter, claims she has been “thrown under the bus” and that she did not raise the alarm.
“Charlotte has many enemies,” Dickinson told The Sun newspaper on her doorstep in Battersea. “It could have been anyone but I got the backlash.”
Stephan Wensing, the Dutch lawyer who alerted authorities on Monday to the video, had also separately denied to Telegraph Sport that Ms Dickinson was his mystery client.
‘I was thrown under the bus’
Dickinson, who is understood to have…
