Parents suing over rotational fall death

Im with you 100%. Life is for living to the full cos you never know when your time is up. Why didnt the parents send her to flower arranging classes instead of allowing and obviously sponsoring her in eventing/hacking/ anything to do with horses. And please, how do you put a monetary value on the life of your child? I find the whole thing physically repulsive
crazy.gif
. M.
 
FFS! When will people just learn to accept that horses are dangerous animals and everytime you get on one you are putting yoru life at risk?! Sueing anyone who ever had anything to do with the horse or course isn't going to achieve anything and will only make trainers & course designers afraid to do anything a bit different in the future.
 
Sorry does it not say in the article the horse was unfit to do the course, so come on they choose to take the damn horse and the daughter choose to get in the horse so how des it then become any one elses problem
 
correct me if i'm wrong, but firstly, i believe she'd already been eliminated for too many refusals... she chose to carry on. also, the parents let her run on that horse, if it was "unfit to ride" then they should have done something about it then. it's a bit effing late now.
 
that is stupid like it has already been said the horse was unfit so why ride it before it is ready, surely they would have been more careful after her sister died after a riding accident instead of letting history repeat itself. dont get me wrong its very sad and tragic that she died but it could have easily been avioded they only have themselves to blame.
 
I think the term 'you ride at your own risk' has never been more appropriate... The parents were more than aware of the dangers and therefore shouldn't have allowed her to take part if they thought the course to dangerous and the horse unfit.

And suing the trainer too, how bloody ridiculous, the one person who is trying to improve the girls riding so that the risk of injury is reduced!!!
 
Defies belief, whilst is must be awful to lose both of their children suing is not going to bring them back.

As others have said, riding is a risk sport but for the writ to alledge Mias horse was unfit to ride because of prior falls and lack of practice - WTF, that is no ones fault but the rider/owner. If they knew the horse was lacking fitness and schooling then stay at home.

Whilst very sad for the family I hope this is thrown out of court.
 
I seem to recall reading the report elsewhere, and it saying the parent runs a riding establishment.
 
I dont know why these people dont insure against death if the money is that important to them.

That way they could be guarenteed a payout on death, rather than trying to ruin other peoples lives getting it
mad.gif
 
OH WHAT?!?! why?? FFS, surely they know the risks?!?!

My mum and i speak about this and I've always said that if i have to go early then i want to go doing XC, it's a risky sport, and you don't take on a big XC without knowing that you horse is fit enough...it was her mistake, end of!
 
May sound cyncial but that's the way things are going and the Uk seems to follow the US albeit a few years later!!

After suffering a bad back after several bad falls who do I sue?? My horse? The council who's road I landed on???? My husband for being in America when I bought a youngster (who incidentally I have had for 6 years...horse that is...husband has stuck it for longer!!!!) But back to the main subject that's how daft it is going to get>
 
This news has truely disgusted me - how low can the parents sink
mad.gif


As for making courses more testing for spectators - come ON, ANY horseperson worth their salt would NOT run over a course they deemed unsafe, and if they do then more fool them.
 
Whilst I agree with the previous comments, my OH who is pretty knowledgeable about such things says this could be really, really bad news for eventing worldwide
frown.gif
If the FEI and other powers that be get frightened by lawsuits, and they are already jumpy (quite rightly) about the number of rider fatalities recently, they could just pull the plug on us
frown.gif
frown.gif
shocked.gif
 
[ QUOTE ]
Gobsmacked
confused.gif
do people not take responsibility for their own actions anymore?

[/ QUOTE ]

Couldnt have put it better myself!
 
I think it's inevitable that within the next season or so the current disclaimers you see in the programmes will be deemed insufficient, and riders will have to sign a disclaimer at each event before starting the cross-country or something. And I would not be surprised to hear that trainers do this already tbh.
 
In America they sue over everything. Both rider & parents knew that competition riding can be dangerous & if you are not prepared to accept that then you shouldn't ride. Too many riders are over estimating both their & their horses ability & are entering for classes that are far too technical or difficult for them to ride at their stage in ability.

There used to be a saying "Accidents happen"...... unfortunately in this sue everyone culture that we find ourselves in now I'm afraid that accidents never happen, someone somewhere has to be blamed. In this case, although being sorry for the parents & rider the blame lands in their lap.
 
Its the American way to sue people!

Out of interest why don't eventing stop people after two refusals like show jumping? That would surely make things safer?
 
It's probably a reaction to the pain of loosing the daughter and a bit of self imposed guilt at encouraging her down that route. They need someone or something to blame other than themselves.

They are obviously not thinking straight and probably some blood sucking scumbag lawyer has seen an opportunity to part them from their cash (my opinion here). To be honest its pointless, since she was not a breadwinner to the family any moneytary award is going to be minimal and probably insulting to them as they think that their daughter is worth more than that.

We just have to hope they see sense and drop this becuase if they get a judge that knows nothing about the sport, which looking at recent cases is HIGHLY likely it could be all of us that suffer as a result and that would be tragic and most definately not what their daughter would have wanted as her legacy!!

You get on any animal entirely at your own risk, no one makes you!!
 
I thought that is why you walked the course! Plenty of riders have pulled out at top events because of the going etc. No one seems to want to take responsiblity for their own actions anymore. Horse riding is a high risk sport one of the highest. There have been more riders killed from XC then from F1 racing. Next time I cut myself can I sue the Knife manufacturer for making the knife too sharp!
 
Volenti non fit injuria
smirk.gif
smirk.gif
smirk.gif


Oh, and I do feel it necessary to stress that American tort laws/caselaw are different from that of the UK's.
smile.gif
 
An eliminated rider should be leaving the course at a walk not carrying on, surely unless she was just eleminated for a technicality i.e wrong side of a flag, then she would have been sent off.
 
[ QUOTE ]
An eliminated rider should be leaving the course at a walk not carrying on........................she would have been sent off.

[/ QUOTE ]

Having tried to stop a rider when fence judging, I can assure you it is not as simple as it sounds......by the time control has totted up the four refusals, and the message goes out on radio, a rider often still has had time to jump another couple of fences......and if she's carrying on jumping fences that don't have a radio, then it can be longer........
 
[ QUOTE ]
Having tried to stop a rider when fence judging, I can assure you it is not as simple as it sounds......by the time control has totted up the four refusals, and the message goes out on radio, a rider often still has had time to jump another couple of fences......and if she's carrying on jumping fences that don't have a radio, then it can be longer........

[/ QUOTE ]

Now this makes me a little bit cross - anyone who can't count to four probably shouldn't be eventing....and if you can count to four, then you should not need control, or a fence judge or your dog trainers mother's aunt for that matter to tell you to pull up and leave the course as per the rules. (So not cross at you GTF, cross at riders to flout this rule!). At Novice and above you only need to be able to count to three!
 
Crazy behaviour, I would say that perhaps they are blinded by grief but seen as they sued over their other daughters death, I think perhaps they have just got into the swing of suing.
Do they have any other kids I wonder, because I'd have SERIOUS reservations about taking them so much as swimming...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top