This image popped up on my social media and I’m trying to figure what’s going on in it. It looks like the half chap was snapped to the stirrup, and I’d say “who does that?” if there weren’t a rule prohibiting it, which makes me think that someone does. Seems like it’d be very hard for it to happen accidentally.
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I think it’s one of the safety stirrups that has a gap at the top. I don’t see why anyone would do it on purpose, but I can see it happening by accident if you lost your stirrup or took your feet out for some reason. I’m the kind of person these things happen to though.
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The post I saw with this photos talked about a safety stirrup with a gap, the rider getting unseated (the rider is sitting on the horse’s neck in front of the saddle) and their half chaps getting stuck on the safety stirrup.
I have no facts, just passing along what the caption was when I saw this photo on Facebook.
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Is it actually inside the stirrup or is the stirrup just pulling it up from the bottom?
The only thing I can think of is the safety stirrups with the gap at the top
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It could be something that has the hinged wing and in the process for not falling off got twisted, caught, and pushed back mostly closed with the strap of the chaps caught on it.
Random internet stirrup photo, not saying it is this brand, just showing how there is a tail at the bottom to get caught on even with this style.
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Great, another thing to worry about around horses that never would have crossed my mind in a million years until I saw it! 
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I couldn’t figure this photo out either but it was on Shit Eventers FB as part of a sequence of a junior rider getting dislodged but staying on over a jump. There was mention in comments of the safety stirrup but I didn’t work very hard to visualize it 
