Shouldn’t this exact type of rider be on the “watch” list?
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Article: Jon Holling on the Obstacles to Eventing Rider Safety
https://horsenetwork.com/2020/03/jon…fety-and-more/
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@Jealoushe I feel like that’s one of those situations where I might either mention it to the coach, or mention it to the people running the event she is doing Prelim at. They may not actually do anything about it, but at least you will know that you DID try to say something.
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Interesting.
The USEA’s investigation into Jeffie Chapin’s death at the 2019 Green Mountain Horse Association horse trials, for example, led to rule changes regarding warm-up cross country jumps.
“What you’re looking for are very fine details of things that may or may not happen—that’s what the USEA did,” Holling said. “We had [Jeffie Chapin’s] accident investigated, found nothing wrong with the fence, necessarily, but the difference between the warm-up fence and [those] on course is the fences on course were decorated and had proper ground lines.”
Now, warm-up cross-country jumps at USEA-sanctioned events are required to have groundlines and be decorated like those on course.
But while investigations often lead to safety improvements, the results of each are not made public as they involve sensitive personal information. This lack of transparency has been a point of contention among USEA members.
The ‘sensitive personal information’ is BS. Like others have mentioned, go to the FAA or other organizations for accident reports.
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While I appreciate his effort in the fundraising and raising awareness - that is super important and always has been - this reminds me of the media asking celebrities for expert opinions on things.
Maybe I missed it but what makes Jon Holling a safety expert? Nothing against him, he’s a great advocate that is for sure, but does the USEA not have anyone on their side that has an actual science or risk management type background to talk about this? This isnt about him, but the fact we use riders to be our voice of safety…
Do the stats really show eventing is getting safer?
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The biggest obstacle to rider safety is riders, without a doubt,” said Jon Holling, United States Eventing Association (USEA) Cross-Country Safety Subcommittee Chair.
Those damn riders. They keep getting crushed by their horses.
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Same. Same response, but hopefully the “number of similar requests” is adding up. I did ask to be added to a wait list or email distribution list to be notified if they bring it back as well.
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The patent applications don’t appear to have issued anywhere (other than in GB in 2004–max term must soon be up if not already so)? Perhaps another manufacturer would be willing to take up the challenge.
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”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹”‹I also had concerns with the article and since it doesn’t look like the USEA Safety Subcommittee releases its own statistical analyses, they have a link on their page to an FEI report that indicates rotational falls have decreased consistently since 2013. Maybe that’s what he’s using as a safety measure.
https://useventing.com/resources/documents/2019-Statistics-10.02.2020.pdf
“”¢ The percentage of horse falls remains below the average of the period. Both rotational and non rotational falls at XC fences are at the lowest percentage ever.
”¢ The percentage of rotational horse falls (higher risk of injuries for horse and athlete) has decreased from 0.30 horse fall every 100 starters (1 rotational horse fall every 322 starters) in 2008 to 0.12 rotational horse fall every 100 starters (1 rotational horse fall every 805 starters) in 2019. Rotational falls have constantly been decreasing since 2013.”
On the other hand, it also notes the number of unseated athletes increased in 2019.
Also, since I seem to be picking on USEA, I feel like I should add the caveat that I am Canadian. Equestrian Canada doesn’t even seem to have a safety committee and we don’t seem to have any safety statistics or reports available online. (Mind you, the EC website is a disaster and not at all user friendly. It’s a pain to even find rules or dressage tests.)
So… people in glass houses…
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Nope, EC does not give one flying fig. They didn’t even announce when a horse died at Glen Arden 2 summers ago.
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This is the same EC that publicly declared a team rider’s horse ‘lame’ when it wasn’t.
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EC’s Safety Officer is Rob Stevenson
Does anyone else find the cancelling of numerous shows and events due to coronavirus and the threat to the health and safety of riders ironic?
USEA/USEF/FEI hasn’t bothered to issue any regulations that significantly improve the safety of cross-country, but we are cancelling events and shows because of a virus.
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Doesn’t seem to matter, eventers are still out competing, showing they don’t care about the publics safety as much as they dont care about their own.
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Yup, a lot of people seem to be quite proud of the fact that they are still out competing.
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Hopefully hopefully they are practicing social distancing and are keeping themselves contained within their own “group“. Thankfully being outdoors seems to be less of a risk.
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"“We have to keep the spectators interested,” International Equestrian Federation (FEI) President Haya said. “Keyhole fences along with skinnies cause problems, which keeps the crowd engaged. They don’t want to see everyone jump through perfectly, they want the standings to shift.”
Article where I saw quote: https://clcblogger.wordpress.com/201…s-in-eventing/
Looks to be an event rider concerned with the safety of fences and courses…I was reading the article and was just floored by the quote from the FEI President. Yikes.
This shows a rotational fall in sequence. Horrific. The only word that comes to mind is horrific: https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2017/05/…adminton-fall/
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And in case anyone clicks on the horsetalk link and just looks at the photos, I’ll just add this quote from the article “both walked away…”
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He is so lucky, it looks like the horse didnt land or roll on him
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