Safety in cross country has long been a big issue within the international eventing community. Recently at Glanusk International Horse Trials a new development in cross country safety was trialled with the ‘Prolog’. This is a log which is made of expanded polystyrene and when hit with the amount of force associated with rotational falls [...]

This is prompted by a recommendation from the FEI Safety Forum January 2008 Copenhagen: “Add tired riders to list of dangerous riding.” The fact that we heard no more about this suggests that it was deemed impossible to monitor or to test for, and therefore abandoned… but it’s an important thought. [Additional content protected for [...]

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He was named one of the 50 most influential horsemen of the 20th Century by the Chronicle in 2000. He is also the only rider to have won both a gold medal in Eventing and a Tevis Cup buckle in Endurance. Denny Emerson was inducted into the USEA [...]

Oliver Townend and that Rolex fall. Would you believe that his helmet looked perfect on the outside?
Everyone has no doubt seen either video footage or pictures of Oliver Townend’s horrific fall at Rolex Kentucky; such footage reminds us all about the important part that our safety gear plays in helping to protect us in the [...]

We’re very fortunate to have two long sequences of pictures of this incident, taken from different sides and angles. The Grossick Photography ones start when the horse has already launched off the ground, so this makes it look as if it has just totally misjudged the height of the fence for some reason, and is [...]