You are the Chief Steward at a CSIY event. The Grand Prix has just started and you are in the warm-up.  A member of your stewarding team approaches you saying she has received an urgent text message from a competitor’s mother. You read the message and it states that she is forbidding her son from competing in the class.

You check the start list and see that he has 8 horses before entering the arena.

How would you proceed?