another event rider killed

I was chatting to an instructor about this very recently he was in charge of the army breakers at Melton Mowbray and he said that event horses were too well trained. The types of fence being built are technical where you have to be very controlled these are not the fences causing problems its the more straightforward ones where a leg left causes a fall. A technical fence never really causes any problems you just get a smattering of 20s from run outs.

WFP is an amazing rider where his horses just do not have to think - yet Toytown thinks for himself and digs his rider out of trouble an awful lot which is why for me ZP results are not as good on other horses. Riders have got better and better and as they have horses have had to think less for themselves. I watch intro and I can genuinely say that only 25% of the riders look like they are secure xc. Unless they go hunting or TC this will never improve as xc schooling is not the same and nor is SJ.

For me the problem is that there really is no way around this. You cannot force people to go hunting nor can you set up hundreds of xc schooling sessions because they are so far from the real thing and do not teach a partnership to find a 5th leg and survive. I do not believe that the breed of a horse makes any difference I just think the continental horses coming over here are pro produced from breaking so just have never had to dig themselves out of trouble. Its not that they cannot they just have never needed to.
 
I think this is awful, condolences to the family.
I don't know why it is happening, but I hope it doesn't keep happening. Maybe we need to go back to big, rider frightner but horse will jump fences?
 
I think you guys are falling prey to the information Highway.
Afew years ago you would have not been aware of the accidents, because they happened in a differant country and print would have not covered it.
Eventing perse has become far more saver, only we have now more people event. It the same as with traffic statistics, 10 years ago there were 1 million on the road today its 10 millionen, naturally now you got about 3 times as many casulties, percentage wise far less people become casualties.

Same in eventing, on top comes that with total acess to information we hear about the accidents in foreign countries, from Aussi, to Sweden, to US, to Kraut and so on and suddenly it sounds like a lot, when it is not.

So get ridd of the panic button.

By the way 2 deadly in Germany in one week, uiiii should not have said that, because now the pants peeing starts all over.
By the way none since 2000 in Germany, pretty darn good.
 
I am rubbish at maths but I do wonder whether the number of increased deaths is relative to the number of people doing the sport all over the world and the level of reporting. It would be interesting to know how many people evented in the 70s/80s and 90s in relation to today.

It does seem like there are a lot of casualties but is the answer partially in the numbers rather than how we do things today?
 
It is very sad all the same, and i do hope this can be looked into and perhaps things can change, whether its the same today (in relative terms) as it was 20yrs ago, it needs to be investigated and the work must continue into trying to prevent such awfully sad accidents
 
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