For the Harry Charles accident you would think he himself would post the clip to back up what he is saying.
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To be a little fair, most associations and organizations ask that you don’t post those sort of things, as it attracts negative press from organizations like PETA and others. Sure, you can sleuth it out and go find it, but I’m sure “people” have asked him not to include the video for their own CYA purposes.
My friend does independent media for the NRCHA, and that is something they encounter often because clients want the bad footage to post, but the NRCHA is against having the bad footage of a fall out there for public view. In the end they can’t control what individuals post, but that could be why it’s not attached to the articles.
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I’d like to see it but it’s not on clip my horse and I can’t find the class on the Wellington site. If anyone has a video of it please PM me.
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It really was similar to what happened with Ilex too. Which is odd as two very different horses with different backgrounds.
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Ditto, please.
The Harry Charles video can be found here: https://grandprix.info/fr/video/3339284/La-chute-effrayante-de-Harry-Charles-et-Lissino-a-Wellington/
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Wow. Thank you for that link.
That’s a hard fall. And I wonder if the footing at all impacted how much he got hurt. I’ve seen many people say that the footing there has no give if you hit it.
Is the horse okay? That was a really hard fall for the horse.
It looked like he came in a little under power/impulsion. The horse really looks to have read that fence as a vertical.
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https://wellingtoninternational.com/video/2819/international-ring-thursday-january-23-2025
Here’s a different link if that one isn’t working for people. I don’t know if it will take you to the exact place, so if not, Harry’s round starts at around 31:42.
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Appreciate the link @Night_Flight
I had assumed he had found something ever so slightly forward into it, and landed too deep. That is decidedly not want happened. That’s like the opposite of what happened. He basically added into it, at least one stride if not more. He was absolutely accounting for a short distance in there and was basically doing everything right to accommodate it. Yikes.
And I have to admit that from that camera angle, not knowing what fences were coming up and which one would show the fall, I totally thought it was a one-stride.
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Ouch. That had to hurt.
Thanks for posting the link.
Thank you for posting the link to the entire class. This is what I have most wanted to see. I wanted to know if others appeared to have trouble. I’ve watched about 15 trips, and in those, 1 rider had the back rail of B, 1 rider had A and the front of B (maybe the horse didn’t read the top rail well?), and Harry’s horse left a step out. It doesn’t seem to ride unfairly short. It really does just look like the horse maybe read B as a vertical, I don’t know. But to me, without others in the class also having trouble here, it seems unfair to blame the obstacle for what happened. There were plenty of poles down elsewhere on course.
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I don’t know who would have hurt more, McLain or Harry, but I’ll McLain did because he was thrown farther and he’s older. Both look like it hurt!
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I think Harry was back in the show ring within a week of his fall while McLain is apparently still out. And Harry’s fall was after McLain’s (I think). And yes, Harry has a huge advantage over McLain when it comes to age!
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Harry’s fall looked awful for him, and the horse was lucky not to break his neck. I haven’t seen McLain’s fall yet.
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McLain is not quite double Harry’s age, but pretty close to it.
Yeah it seems strange to me that he would have two horses within not a long time attempt the same thing. In the clip at WEF it almost looked like he asked for the distance. Of course, it’s really hard to tell because he’s an excellent rider so he may have just stayed with the horse really well. But he was getting into two point with the horse as it took off.
His fall was odd. You can tell he knew the distance was a little short since he really pulled back coming in. But the angle makes it hard to tell if the distance was set short or if the horse just jumped in deep and made a bad choice.
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Somebody with decent search skills might be able to find a course for that class posted somewhere online that would have the footage of the combination.
I think I found McLain’s clip. It was the 3*** on January 19, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/live/9RfT3kKwPLo?si=StrNW16RKnMMUKVa
Go to minute 43:50 on the video.
And also, because I’m stubborn, here is the video from Spruce (only a clip, sorry)
Go to minute 9:55
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McLain became a lawn dart. 🫣
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