The Australian Sports Commission has threatened to pull its $6 million backing of Equestrian Australia over a proposed change to the constitution of the troubled Olympic sporting federation.

The sport has lurched from one crisis to another since last year’s Paris Olympics, and the federal government agency warned it could take the extraordinary step of stripping Equestrian Australia of its status as a national sporting organisation.

In a letter, Australian Sports Commission executive Richard McInnes said a proposal to make Equestrian Australia effectively a branch of itself, alongside state member associations, was “not an appropriate governance arrangement for an NSO”.

“We are therefore providing notice that, if the EA constitution is amended to give effect to [the resolution], EA woul

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