Oliver Towend airlifted from Rolex Kentucky

[teapot]

Latest bbc news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/equestrian/8642388.stm

 

[rebeccatodd1]

Wondered if anyone had any thoughts on that fence being a frangible pin or not?

 

[zefragile]

Wondered if anyone had any thoughts on that fence being a frangible pin or not?

Are you asking if there were frangible pins? Because yes it had the pins.

 

[rebeccatodd1]

Yes, thanks that's interesting.........

 

[Ignition]

I feel desperately sorry for him. To have such a difficult journey over there and to spend so much money in the process... heartbreaking.

 

[Luci07]

I am so glad he is will walk away - question everyone asking is if he will be riding tomorrow - if he was actually knocked unconscious, wouldn't that mean an automatic "ban" for a period of time? So glad both horse and rider are unharmed, loved the comments about the swearing!

 

[Ignition]

He didn't have a head injury, so had he not had the 'cracks' he would have been fine to ride.

 

[Ignition]

Its a question of how far do you go with frangible pins, knock down fences etc. Because if every XC fence fell at the slightest touch then, well, you might as well just do jumpcross.