Martina Hingis takes a fall...poor horse's mouth

I never manage to hold onto the reins! Unfortunately Monty likes to bugger off and leave me for dead. Zoom just stares at me like I'm a numpty.

I don't know why everyone is so critical. I went cross country schooling last week and Zoom took a real flier. If you had caught me on camera I would have been hauling on her mouth worse than that, and came smashing down on her back to boot.........................and the jump was only about 80cm!!!!!!
 
I do agree that us riders seem to love nothing more than knocking succesful people down. The first photo is of a split second, we have all had the most unflattering photos taken surely? The ones that make you say 'I'm never getting on again if I'm really that bad!' Personally I wouldn't have hung onto the reins, but I am lucky enough to ride a pair of very kind horses who will stop dead and wait for me if I do something as stupid as fall off them!

I think Martina Hingis attracts negative attention because she is pretty, rich, already a champion tennis player and now seems to be a talented horsewoman as well! Green eyed monster. Most of the SJers I see have somewhat unorthodox positions anyway. The horse probably did get a sore mouth, these things sometimes happen however good ones intentions are. Falls happen so quickly its hard not to do whatever is natural for you.

ETS - and just looking at the photos again - what a good horse in the last one, making every possible effort not to step on her!
 
I'd have hung on. I can't even catch mine in an arena when she so chooses, and most definatly if I came off, she'd be upset and even more difficult to catch!!!

Photos capture a split second and not the whole movement, a split second earlier or later would present a different image.
 
LOL falling off is never graceful, my boy usually takes off so fast u couldnt hang onto the reins even if u tried.....

I was that busy thinking of the "reigns" there i had to think how to spell it proper lmao
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I didn't realise that she had been done for cocaine usage.

So if you are banned from one sport for drug abuse it does not transfer to other sports? Banned from tennis, but can still Show Jump?
 
To be fair, she never appealed, which is the usual way of these things, and her ban would not have been for life. She retired rather than pursue the issue. And it's not like she was an "easy" person before that all happened. But I'd think in something like tennis, where many people careers are so short, a year or so would have mattered a lot and hadn't she already had a good chunk of time out?

Look at Eric, he's been caught twice and now has a gold medal to show for it.
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Sports differentiate between performance enhancing, intentional doping, and people who get caught with a positive test for recreational drugs when they hand down bans. Also, passing a blood test is not ground for legal action - someone can lose their job for it but unless they're tested whilst driving a car or similar, they're not going to jail for a positive test. So the reasoning is completely taking away someone's livelihood is not, vs "firing" them for a certain amount of time, would be disproportionate.
 
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Oh do shut up!

She was jumping a 1.15m and 1.25m class, not a celeb class

I don't think anyone looks beautiful falling off, and I'm sure many eventers hang on to the reins.

This forum is so damn b*tchy, it does not reflect well on us when anything appears in the proper press, all the forum does is pick and point out faults.

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Quite.

It wasn't long ago that NL had a long post about do you hang on when you fall off - it was reasonably evenly split but I think the majority was just taken by those who held on.

So persecutel all of them too. I'm a letter-goer, because I have never been taught otherwise, the jury seems to be out on which is safer, and I'd rather fall clear in the knowledge that my horse will be found approx 10 yards away, eating the nearest patch of grass
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Exception was when I fell off onto the road, and did my utmost to hold on to him because I didn't want a loose horse on a busy road. Didn't work, but did slow him down.
 
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