Bit breaks during SJ round

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I'd read about this but not seen the footage, eek!
Same! I saw the pic on facebook with lots of people commenting to say if he was a "proper horseman" he wouldn't have needed to jump off but should have ridden from his seat and legs! Lol! yeah Ok then o_O Looked a bit sore getting up, ouch.
 

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Very scarey.
I had this once but it was at 2ft 3" !! I was cantering towards the first jump indoors and the bit snapped. It was the horses first show and he was an ex-racer! Luckily he pulled up fairly quickly, especially in view that he had bolted on the moor the previous weekend. That was one of those plastic peanut type bits, which I've never used again.
 

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Ah I had only seen the pictures not the video. There is a definite contrast with how the reiner dealt with his bridle breaking last year :p. You can skip to 1min 45

 

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no, I think a western saddle might have been helpful. I imagine harder to chuck yourself off one too.
 

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The comments about how / why he should have stayed on really wound me up. He could have been seriously hurt if he hadn't jumped off, that horse was NOT going to come back to him no matter what he did with his legs or seat. The armchair critics say some seriously dumb things sometimes!
 

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it was already locked onto the fence where it all fell apart, so he had no chance of rescuing that jump really, and the horse just seemed intent on running away after that so he could have been very seriously hurt if he'd stayed on. one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't things, I reckon.
 

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Wow, it takes guts to dismount in those circumstances. There's a similar kind of video of a Hong Kong jockey on a very hyped up horse who has to throw himself off as the bridle comes apart in his hands.
It once happened to me. Bit broke out on an 8 mile hack. Embarrassingly, I didn't notice until I got back to the yard. I was riding the family cob that I once fell asleep on for early a mile.
 

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He got off pretty casually... I don’t think my first reflex would have been to get my leg over the neck! More like stirrups off, drop, roll and hope for the best 😅
 

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I had a bit break out hunting just as they were about to move off from lane into open fields . I shouted "hold hard" but it seems that the entire field thought this was some kind of hunting gibberish meaning get out of my way ,cant you see that my galloping horse is on an important mission. We carved a path through the entire field and were only saved because the master , an old friend of many years ,decided to wait to see what on earth I was in such a hurry about. PS you cannot stop an Irish Draught by trying to strangle it with the martingale . They just get a bit peeved and go faster.
 

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Wow, it takes guts to dismount in those circumstances. There's a similar kind of video of a Hong Kong jockey on a very hyped up horse who has to throw himself off as the bridle comes apart in his hands.
It once happened to me. Bit broke out on an 8 mile hack. Embarrassingly, I didn't notice until I got back to the yard. I was riding the family cob that I once fell asleep on for early a mile.

That's my kinda horse :-D
 
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