I'm completely confused by this...
He’s a really good horse," McPeek said. "We’re just hopeful he’s OK. It looked like he was walking fine. He’s never been hit (with a crop) in his life. He’s so fast (that) we’ve never even had to lay a stick on him. I think he was shocked. Julien rolled the stick over and hit him right-handed, and the horse was just shocked. That scared him over the rail.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...#ixzz1aKXIAgLB
Obviously I know nothing about training horses but umm you don't use a whip at all?
I mean he did tell Julien not to use it, right?
Hope the horse will be okay...