Mongoose11
Well-Known Member
Dragon22 you missed the bit where I was informed thay only had one child. I assumed that the child was Clayton's as it was sitting on his knee - easy mistake to make!
Dragon22 you missed the bit where I was informed thay only had one child. I assumed that the child was Clayton's as it was sitting on his knee - easy mistake to make!
We can have our opinions, but stating these as facts are not fair and neither is making insinuations against someone who can't reply. Or being suggestive when it could impact other innocent parties.
So I am going back to watch some of the truly brilliant riding that is on show and wish again I had been there...!
Touche Karibati good idea to lighten the mood. I am particularly grumpy tonight (incase anyone hadn't picked up on it) x[/QUOTE
Thats how rumours start, if you don't know the facts don't say things!!
Someone in CR has said they saw Clayton hacking back after his round & the horse looked fine. Surely he wouldn't hack back after falling like that would he?
Are there rules about getting back on even if it's not on course?
Karibati - now I'm grumpy again. Son or not if a child of that age who was in my company said something so rude so loudly I would have told them not to be unkind and not to be so loud. I thought it was a poor show from the adult who was supervising said child.
Hi alliersv1 I took hacking to mean that he was on board or was he walking back on foot?
So glad the horse was ok, it looked an awful fall.
He was riding.
I've hit the ground at high speed from a great height and I can safely say that I couldn't tell you who I was, where I was, what I was doing on the floor and why I was wearing such ridiculous garb for a good 5-10mins after hitting the deck.
He is human, he can break too you know.
Was he is shock?
That could explain his behaviour.....
I wondered if he was worried about what he might see. You can hear how hard he hit the fence.
But, the concern should have taken priority and he certainly didn't give anyone a good impression of himself today.
I've come off and had a bleed on the brain, and next time a broken back, each time I was looking and asking after my horse as soon as I could focus/speak.
Only 5-10 mins I carried on a cross country ride for an hour and a half after falling (horse fall), have absolutely no recollection of it whatsoever and supposedly was jumping everything in sight. Spent the next week fairly poorly with concussion and my hat had split nearly in two!
Have also been involved in an RTA in which a car was written off. Got horse back to yard and then have no memory of what happened after that for a wee while.
My horse means more to me than anything, but going by certain people on here I must be a heartless cow
Rhino, that explains a lot, can clearly see why you are so bonkers now m'dear
I was standing there too, about 20' from the fence. Could see the problem coming a mile off, since the horse dropped right behind his leg, and Clayton did all he could to galvanise the horse into making the requisite effort. I think he was very shocked and, possibly, winded, and his airjacket didn't go off (people around me noticed and commented on it, I hadn't noticed. In fact a few people said it was clipped to itself, not the saddle, I didn't see though).
It looked to me as if he really didn't dare look at first, there was a fearsome crack when the horse's neck hit the front of the fence, I think that wooden rail cracked.
The horse was swiftly attended to by the stewards. I'm slightly surprised that he rode the horse back BUT we don't know how bad he was feeling, a few miles to walk may have felt like a very long way. Let's not forget he fractured his liver in his fall earlier in the year, a v nasty injury. Maybe they should have insisted he went back by vehicle?
I bet that horse has a hell of a haematoma tonight, really hope they are both okay. Ditto Sam Penn's horse. I've gone right off that fence, always been utterly terrified of it, but usually riders and horses get away with things there (i've seen some missers that still resulted in jumping it fine, somehow!) not this year for some reason.
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