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Everything you might read in the regular press. Some do seem to be getting their facts wrong. She has a SUSPECTED brken collar bone but flew home yesterday for proper examination, but she was on her feet at the show ground albeit with arm in sling yesterday morning.
the fence was 'plain', a french version of a chase fence and thus far there is no evidence for sure one way or the other whether it was a rotational but i dont think it really matters anyway.
Tsunami got to her feet after the fall and was loaded onto horse ambulance where she was examined by the treating vet and the British team vet where it was discovered the damge to her neck semed irrepairable a conclusion subsequently born out by autopsy. The british vet in question told me this herself so i think its fair to say it is gospel.
statements from the press like 'only two horses completed' are obviously false. that particualar statement should have finished.......completed WITHIN THE TIME for example.
do read Horse and Hound's report as pippa cuckson is doing it and she is one of zara's owners and as likely as anyone to get the whole story.
Just thought i would post this as i do not believe the endless speculation helps either Zara or the sport in general.
 
Listening to radio 4 news yesterday, Zara had a horrrid fall at a SJing competition!!

Having a totally unhorsey boyfriend, i now know that there are only two forms of horse sport, racing and SJing.. he is often asking me when i'm next racing.
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Watched a video on 'Racing' being so dangerous yet it was full of Zara, Pippa, Mary and Mark P.... purely a video on eventing and its fatalaties.

They seem to get alot wrong.
 
I saw the SJ reference on the news, idiots cant even get that right. Its not difficult!

And I know what you mean MDM the people at my work always ask when im racing or how did I get on racing!
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I just go along with it, its easier!
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Only a very small article in The Daily Mail this morning , saying that Zara had been injured & her horse put down at a cross country event .

I hate it when the press gets it wrong . On the radio 2 news yesterday , Zara was ' Thrown from her horse '
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Sounds very dramatic , but unless a horse puts in a huge buck , they rarely ' throw ' you off .
 
Non horsey people dont get it - but then I dont get football!!

My oh's mum says that she wants to come and watch me do my endurance rides - she doesn't seem to understand that I dont do 32kms around the same field - I have to explain to her that we go in a big loop all around bodmin moor or something and normally wont pass the same point twice - not much of a spectator sport!
 
I maybe out spoken on this one but am i the only one thinking maybe she pushed this horse to far? I admit i dont follow eventing closely but isnt this the same horse that fell in Badminton? Maybe this told her then she needed a few more 3* events under her belt before atempting a 4*
 
It was the horses first 4* and having gone clear at six 3* you'd have thought it was probably ready to have a go.

Edt to add.. even with all my arguments in the other thread about dressage in the sport today... there always has been and always will be tragic accidents, and although i wasn't there at Pau, and haven't actually read much about what happened.. it sounds like this was one of those tragic accidents
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I have to say I did think she should have pulled up at Burghley, the horse was very tired - not that it has anything to do with what happened at Pau, different horse, different circumstances. I feel really sorry for her. Horrible thing to happen.
 
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I have to say I did think she should have pulled up at Burghley, the horse was very tired - not that it has anything to do with what happened at Pau, different horse, different circumstances. I feel really sorry for her. Horrible thing to happen.

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IIRC Zara was giving that horse one of the best rides he'd ever had at 4* level and like 5 or 6 others, fell foul at those horrible mushrooms for whatever reason but I don't think it was tiredness.
 
Correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't pau tsunami's first four star?
Her fall at burghley was absolutely nothing to do with her riding in my opinion! Those mushrooms caught a LOT of riders out and she rode the approach to them a lot better than some that managed somehow to get over them!
 
Teapot - Maybe I'm getting mixed up but I meant the other horse, it finished but very tired? I agree the fall at the mushrooms was nothing to do with her riding and I don't suppose the one at Pau did either. I think she is a great rider!
 
sorry it may of been Burghley on a black horse?

Like i said in earlier post, i dont really follow eventing. Might have got it all mixed up.
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Yesterday's Times report seemed accurate (well, no glaring errors iirc). It said that the horse stumbled on landing and fell.. if so, terrible freak accident, poor Zara, r.i.p. Tsunami

Times just as bad! - Tsunami was a chestnut mare!! And Zara felt sorry for poor Mel who bred 'him'! And Kate Green wrote that!
 
possibly 'one of those accidents' but a very knowledgable onlooker said . . . they had never seen a 4 star rider 'miss' so badly !!!!! Even a european and world champion can make a mistake , just very sad when it leads to the loss of a horse, or rider. However we all know eventing is an Extreme Sport and do our best to avoid the negative consequences. Hope Zara recovers well
 
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