https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/spor ... ridge.html
Jimmy Williams
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Hap Hansen needs a smack upside the head with Aunt Esther's Purse. What a tool
The women who stepped forward deserve praise and huge Kudos to COTH for starting the public story
The women who stepped forward deserve praise and huge Kudos to COTH for starting the public story
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I read this this morning. Wow.
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Hap Hansen is an @hole. Unfortunately his business won't suffer.
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While article is documentation of something horrible, what is implied is even worse. For 37 years, parent threw their children away. I spent my college years in the show circuit and know that many of societies rules are suspended for consenting adults in the horse world. And yes I heard the occasional rumor of liaisons between teenage girls and adult men although the two I knew slightly, the young lady was the predator and the guy was enjoying the situation. These weren’t parents that were skimping to give their child a chance at riding glory, these were the “movers and shakers” and I bet a few of them could have crushed Mr. Williams with the stroke of a pen.
Yet none of the parents watched the children, none of them saw the truth, none of them followed up on a story from their own child or another’s child. What did the parent’s get for abandoning their little girls? I suspect this is the tip of a very ugly complex story that probably hopelessly tangled in greed and power.
The pictures and paintings of Mr. Williams, who died in 1993, and the sterling trophies he won all vanished without a word recently from the clubhouse where he had spent many afternoons tipping back Champagne with some of Los Angeles County’s biggest and richest names: the parents of his young charges. . . . .
Yet none of the parents watched the children, none of them saw the truth, none of them followed up on a story from their own child or another’s child. What did the parent’s get for abandoning their little girls? I suspect this is the tip of a very ugly complex story that probably hopelessly tangled in greed and power.
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From the time I was about 12, it would take both hands and almost all my fingers to count the number of predators I ran across in various aspects of the horse world.
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I guess I'm very fortunate to have grown up in a very small part of the horse world where stuff like this doesn't happen.
Literiding - I agree... where were the parents????
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Glad this was published in COTH, too, not just the NYT. Very powerful of stars like Anne K to tell this story, which we know is common across all kinds of youth experiences, especially for girls.
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