jellybaby
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Just been writing about mine in H_J's post about how careful your horse is XC (or not!)
Whats the worst accident you have ever had?
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Whats the worst accident you have ever had?
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Your worst fall eventing......
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Merlotmonster
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Hmm...horrible rotational fall at my first BE novice event...taken to hospital on a spinal board, tho thankfully no lasting injuries! Saw my life flash before my eyes and still have flashbacks about it. Think having seen 2 people killed at Burghley( I always pick the wrong fences to stand next to) has also affected me.
Not been back to Smiths Lawn since! Also, have gone back to PN and slowing building my confidence back. Now have an advanced schoolmaster to help and aiming to do a Novice early next year.
Not been back to Smiths Lawn since! Also, have gone back to PN and slowing building my confidence back. Now have an advanced schoolmaster to help and aiming to do a Novice early next year.
dixie
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Not fallen XC (fingers crossed very tightly) but had nasty fall in the SJ Novice section at Stockton Lovell.
He stopped at the last fence a double with horibble plastic black and white stripey fillers and several poles on top. I landed on the top pole and bounced through them all until I hit the filler with my chest - no padding there & definitely no back protector.
I lay on the floor for ages and had to be driven home. Luckily my mum was with me as I usually go alone. I ached for weeks. The worse thing was that we were clear up to that point and there were no clears & I was one of the last one to go. I lay on the floor wimpering "but I was clear" !!!
I hope that's going to be the worse.
He stopped at the last fence a double with horibble plastic black and white stripey fillers and several poles on top. I landed on the top pole and bounced through them all until I hit the filler with my chest - no padding there & definitely no back protector.
I lay on the floor for ages and had to be driven home. Luckily my mum was with me as I usually go alone. I ached for weeks. The worse thing was that we were clear up to that point and there were no clears & I was one of the last one to go. I lay on the floor wimpering "but I was clear" !!!
I hope that's going to be the worse.
Bounty
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Nothing to add except that I won't be venturing back into this thread for fear of scaring myself silly!
Seemingly my reckless days have long gone....
Seemingly my reckless days have long gone....
murphyboywoody
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My horse went to bank a big hedge at Brightling Park and i found myself sitting on his neck and he was rapidly nosediving down the drop on the other side!! I really thought it was curtains for me!! but thankfully he kicked back with his hind legs and i got thrown clear. I really thought he was going to fall himself but once he got rid of me he managed to land ok!!! I landed on my head and needless to say had a very sore neck for a few weeks after!!!
Fahrenheit
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My sister had a nasty rotational fall at South of England, she was knocked out but luckily she was fine and didn't break anything other than her memory!
I had 2 nasty falls, one was when my horse whipped out at the last moment and I hit the fence back first and full speed (this was quite along time ago and now adays they wouldn't have let me carry on) but I insisted and got back on carried on finished the course slid off collapsed in a heap and got whisked off to hospital. Nothing broken just badly shaken up and whiplash!
The other time my horse decided to have a paddy (not uncommon) and I slapped him behind the leg with the crop (a complete no no with this particular horse) and he did his famous flying leap followed by his even more famous head between the knees buck, I don't remember any of this the next thing I remember is coming round with loads of people flapping!
The most embarassing fall was overshooting the turn into the water complex ending up on the bank the horse sliding his front legs in leaving his back leags up the bank and putting his head down so gravity took effect and I slid into the water - and we have it on video
I had 2 nasty falls, one was when my horse whipped out at the last moment and I hit the fence back first and full speed (this was quite along time ago and now adays they wouldn't have let me carry on) but I insisted and got back on carried on finished the course slid off collapsed in a heap and got whisked off to hospital. Nothing broken just badly shaken up and whiplash!
The other time my horse decided to have a paddy (not uncommon) and I slapped him behind the leg with the crop (a complete no no with this particular horse) and he did his famous flying leap followed by his even more famous head between the knees buck, I don't remember any of this the next thing I remember is coming round with loads of people flapping!
The most embarassing fall was overshooting the turn into the water complex ending up on the bank the horse sliding his front legs in leaving his back leags up the bank and putting his head down so gravity took effect and I slid into the water - and we have it on video
carthorse
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I mentioned mine on another post.
I went to exercise a friends horse,which I had often done before. It had been raining and his back was a bit wet,I rubbed him over ,tacked him up and took him into the middle of the field as it was muddy in the gateway.
I put one foot in the stirrup,fully home and toe down and as I went to hop up he bolted and I was pulled under him and dragged.I eventually fell with the stirrup still attached to my foot.I thought I had a nose bleed and went to find help. I found some one down the road and said could they help with a cloth for my nose bleed and they told me my nose was hanging off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sewed on quite well and only left a faint scar but it has made me use a good mounting block and be very careful mounting
I went to exercise a friends horse,which I had often done before. It had been raining and his back was a bit wet,I rubbed him over ,tacked him up and took him into the middle of the field as it was muddy in the gateway.
I put one foot in the stirrup,fully home and toe down and as I went to hop up he bolted and I was pulled under him and dragged.I eventually fell with the stirrup still attached to my foot.I thought I had a nose bleed and went to find help. I found some one down the road and said could they help with a cloth for my nose bleed and they told me my nose was hanging off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sewed on quite well and only left a faint scar but it has made me use a good mounting block and be very careful mounting
Fahrenheit
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MagicMelon
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Crossing fingers like hell of course, I havent had any falls XC to date. Ive had the odd little fall SJ but probably my worst falls have been at home. Ive had plenty of near misses which should have turned out very nasty (like a horse bolting with me straight onto a main road on a blind bend where he then fell over, we both slid quite some way down the road!). Worst Ive had from falls are big bruises and lots of stitches! But nothing broken Im pleased to say!
laurenpalmer
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Not had many bad falls really, this isn't the worst one, but is xc; horse suddenly refused a ditch ( after leaping over it) i flew into the ditch..partly because as i was coming up to it i realised how big it was ( 3ft wide, 3ft deep - big for my horse!)
got in on video though! might be able to down load a freeze of it...
so embarassing!
got in on video though! might be able to down load a freeze of it...
laurenpalmer
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ooo yer escaped with only broken finger and very bruised hand! so swollen though, i couldn't get it out of my glove! can you guess which hand!!!
LoneRanger
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Hmmm, I'd have to say falling off at Windsor 3 day many moons ago. Smallest fence on the course, horse seemed to be going brilliantly but just hit the top of the fence. There was a drop the other side and I slammed into the ground very, very hard. Got back on and jumped 2 more fences before adrenaline wore off (his and mine). He got taken off in a horse ambulance with bad cramp (afterwards discovered it was caused by a heart problem). I got taken off in an ambulance which got lost and ended up going over lots of speed bumps which was nice seeing as I'd ripped ligaments in my back and every movement hurt. Not my worst fall but certainly one of my more painful eventing ones...
Baggybreeches
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I seem to go through phases of falling off, one at PC ODE (many years ago) I was riding my JA pony, coming to some really steep steps into water, my mum was standing by the water saying whoa! POny did not slow down at all (despite me pulling for my life) next thing we plopped down the steps and hit the water with a wet thud!
I also fell off at Skipton more recently when having jumped clear at the 3rd last there was some boggy ground just before the fence which they had sanded, pony spooked at the sand shot sideways and deposited me on the deck. I ran after her all the way back to the lorry park, got on and finished on a score of about 235 pens!
I also fell off at Skipton more recently when having jumped clear at the 3rd last there was some boggy ground just before the fence which they had sanded, pony spooked at the sand shot sideways and deposited me on the deck. I ran after her all the way back to the lorry park, got on and finished on a score of about 235 pens!
Ferdinase514
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Carthorse - yours made me feel sick!! It's amazing what adrenaline can do and you have no idea how bad an injury is!
My worst injury and the one that put an end to eventing, for me, was at Lockskinners in 2004. Took a jump too fast and turned too sharply, went flying and broke ankle in 3 places
My worst injury and the one that put an end to eventing, for me, was at Lockskinners in 2004. Took a jump too fast and turned too sharply, went flying and broke ankle in 3 places
Skhosu
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I was thinking and I think I've not fallen off (touch wood) eventing on anything. ever. Onyl one I've ever had an issue with is old pony who dumped me at several ditches, never injured though. Always at training, not actually eventing. Have been in the ditch..
mrussell
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Well, this was my hubbys worst fall in the SJ collecting ring in March - jumping a Novice height practice jump downhill...
His horse landed steep and trod on his over reachboot. The momentum caused his back end to over take his front, after about 18 foot of skid, he eventually flipped, throwing hubby clear and crushing the pommel of his WOW saddle (thankfully this meant no damage to his withers - and WOWs are designed for this kind of accident so was fixed within seconds).
When hubby stood up he realised he couldnt move his arm it had dropped off of his shoulder bone and just was hanging down in the skin.
Its called an AC shoulder seperation...and the bone still pokes through the skin now. His wing bone has punched his main shoulder bone out of the shoulder joint itself and mangled all the ligaments that hold it down, with his arm just dropping off the end.
Nasty.
His horse landed steep and trod on his over reachboot. The momentum caused his back end to over take his front, after about 18 foot of skid, he eventually flipped, throwing hubby clear and crushing the pommel of his WOW saddle (thankfully this meant no damage to his withers - and WOWs are designed for this kind of accident so was fixed within seconds).
When hubby stood up he realised he couldnt move his arm it had dropped off of his shoulder bone and just was hanging down in the skin.
Its called an AC shoulder seperation...and the bone still pokes through the skin now. His wing bone has punched his main shoulder bone out of the shoulder joint itself and mangled all the ligaments that hold it down, with his arm just dropping off the end.
Nasty.
seabiscuit
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I had my worse fall 3 fences from home at Highclere Intermediate- I am still gutted about it to this day as it is one huge track at Highclere and Trev had done a superb clear up until that point.
It was the very tall and narrow arrowhead/brush coming out of the water, we took it too fast and T just screwed over it to clear it, dropped a shoulder and I flew off.
Was then lying there for about a good 20 minutes just completly unable to move and was really struggling to breathe at all- was petrified because I thought I was paralysed as I couldnt move a thing- it was like being completly frozen like a rock- and I was feeling very faint.
No jump judges,ambulances or anybody came to help for ages and ages and I could see the jump judge just sitting there on her chair in the corner of my eye just chatting on her phone!
Eventually tho ambulance came, and I gradually got my breath back and the feeling came back everywhere and I walked off just fine! But it was scarey tho! and I was livid about falling off
It was the very tall and narrow arrowhead/brush coming out of the water, we took it too fast and T just screwed over it to clear it, dropped a shoulder and I flew off.
Was then lying there for about a good 20 minutes just completly unable to move and was really struggling to breathe at all- was petrified because I thought I was paralysed as I couldnt move a thing- it was like being completly frozen like a rock- and I was feeling very faint.
No jump judges,ambulances or anybody came to help for ages and ages and I could see the jump judge just sitting there on her chair in the corner of my eye just chatting on her phone!
Eventually tho ambulance came, and I gradually got my breath back and the feeling came back everywhere and I walked off just fine! But it was scarey tho! and I was livid about falling off
little_pink_piggies
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PC Area 10 2004... at gadbury?
i was 13 and had just started doing novice/3'6 tracks and there was a rolltop, 1 horse stride, step up bounce to a skinny bullfinch then 3-4 strides later a seperately numbered fence on a dogs leg an identical skinny bullfinch
ponys 14hhh and tends to be a law unto himself with striding so i planned to do the rolltop, put two strides in and push for the bounce so we would have the momentum to get to the next bullfinch...
anyhow pyscho pony decided to put one stride in the rolltop-step then had to shuffle ontop so got deep to the first bullfinch and then in complete ignorance i just pointed at the second one and kicked
anyhow, ended up right underneath it and because hes so genuine he tried to take off and sort of tipped up and landed on me and getting up stood on my leg but luckily on my lower leg on the gaitors so although i still have two impressive round scars on my leg, its much better than if it was on my thigh where there was no gaitors/boots
anyhow was very pissed off as he had been flying up until then and he would have qualified for sansaw
but did go back and jump that fence in a hunter trial a few months later
i was 13 and had just started doing novice/3'6 tracks and there was a rolltop, 1 horse stride, step up bounce to a skinny bullfinch then 3-4 strides later a seperately numbered fence on a dogs leg an identical skinny bullfinch
ponys 14hhh and tends to be a law unto himself with striding so i planned to do the rolltop, put two strides in and push for the bounce so we would have the momentum to get to the next bullfinch...
anyhow pyscho pony decided to put one stride in the rolltop-step then had to shuffle ontop so got deep to the first bullfinch and then in complete ignorance i just pointed at the second one and kicked
anyhow, ended up right underneath it and because hes so genuine he tried to take off and sort of tipped up and landed on me and getting up stood on my leg but luckily on my lower leg on the gaitors so although i still have two impressive round scars on my leg, its much better than if it was on my thigh where there was no gaitors/boots
anyhow was very pissed off as he had been flying up until then and he would have qualified for sansaw
Eccles
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ugh some of these shound awful.... have had some painful falls but feel weird about posting too many details - seems slightly like tempting fate....!! One at lincoln int and bicton int, both as I couldn't stop, landed on last bar of triple at lincoln and second element of downhill bounce at bicton - we both fell and in those days you carried on - as was junior trial..... fortunately not seriously hurt just winded and bruised! Have been sooo lucky, really hope this doesn't jinx me!!
Nic
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Landed on my head at the water jump at scone last year, concussed myself and hurt my hip ,resulting in the doctor saying "just drop your breeches and I'll have a look"
Worst fall is xc also my most embarrassing!
Worst fall is xc also my most embarrassing!
sarahs
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Lots of these stories have had me holding my breath!
My worst fall happened schooling, I was at tweseldown and it was about 7 years ago , a week after my 18th birthday, i was schooling my 4yo who had jumped like a dream, got to the last fence which used to be a phesant feeder, i thought he was too tired to do it but instructor said "if i didnt think you could do it i wouldnt tell you to do it"
Well he stumbled on take off, i tried to pull him out but it was to late, he was only about 15hh and he got stuck on the widest part of the fence, i feel tothe other side then he flipped himself off the fence and i was laying the other side and could see him coming down on top of me but couldnt get out the way, he landed on me but luckily rolled off avoiding my head! But i broke both my hips, part of my pelvis and my pubic bone, but when I got to frimley park hospital all I was worried about was getting one of the nurses to wipe my face cause there was some HOT doctors and I was covered i tweseldowns sand !
My worst fall happened schooling, I was at tweseldown and it was about 7 years ago , a week after my 18th birthday, i was schooling my 4yo who had jumped like a dream, got to the last fence which used to be a phesant feeder, i thought he was too tired to do it but instructor said "if i didnt think you could do it i wouldnt tell you to do it"
Well he stumbled on take off, i tried to pull him out but it was to late, he was only about 15hh and he got stuck on the widest part of the fence, i feel tothe other side then he flipped himself off the fence and i was laying the other side and could see him coming down on top of me but couldnt get out the way, he landed on me but luckily rolled off avoiding my head! But i broke both my hips, part of my pelvis and my pubic bone, but when I got to frimley park hospital all I was worried about was getting one of the nurses to wipe my face cause there was some HOT doctors and I was covered i tweseldowns sand !