pics in this wk's H&H p23 of WFP and Macchiato "falling"

[kerilli]

Does anyone else that this was technically a horse fall? i take nothing away from WFP for staying on so amazingly after a miss like that, but the fact is that the horse's belly is completely on the floor, as is one of its hindquarters, and that should mean elimination... not victory. i can remember someone having a similar incident at a big championships a few years ago, carrying on, jumping the next fence fine, and being flagged down and told they were eliminated cos the horse's hindquarters had touched the ground. Bad fence judging, imho. What does everyone else think?
btw i am a WFP fan, but fair's fair!

 

[icestationzebra]

I think the rules are that the horses chest/shoulder have to make contact with the ground - in which case he probably did just get away with it.
Amazingly well sat and I hope the horse wasn't too sore afterwards.....

 

[Sarah_Jane]

Similiar post in Competition forum but having looked at rules I think he was just about ok.

Rules

'A horse is considered to have fallen when at the same time both its shoulder and quarters have touched either the ground or the obstacle and the ground or when it is trapped in a fence in such a way that it is unable to proceed without assistance or is liable to injure itself.'

 

[kerilli]

ah, didn't realise it had to be shoulder and quarters simultaneously. thanks.

 

[Sarah_Jane]

I didn't either until I looked it up.