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Back before I ALWAYS rode with a helmet, my new thoroughbred mare spooLed at a trash can,, at a walk, whirled whirled around took off fast and slipped on the gravel in the process. We went down together and I got a serious concussion.
Another incident happened many years earlier on another horse when I was trail riding along a rocky ravine at a walk with a crummy bareback pad that had a tendency to get loose. I leaned over to duck some branches and it slipped right around and I fell Into the ravine onto a rock and dislocated my shoulder and also broke my arm. The horse did nothing wrong. I threw that pad away. Bad equipment is dangerous!
I was bucked off while mounting, landing roughly 80 feet from where I started. I was knocked unconscious and had a fractured acetabulum, ribs and assorted internal injuries.
My last TB was frightened by a Train passing by on a track about 20 feet by us. No where to turn away. He galloped with the train and finally found an opening in the path and made a quick turn throwing me into a metal building. In hospital more than a month with many broken bones. When I recovered I was not afraid, but anxious to get back on him. My children sent him to retirement, and got me a sweet Oldenberg mare.
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Back before I ALWAYS rode with a helmet, my new thoroughbred mare spooLed at a trash can,, at a walk, whirled whirled around took off fast and slipped on the gravel in the process. We went down together and I got a serious concussion.
Another incident happened many years earlier on another horse when I was trail riding along a rocky ravine at a walk with a crummy bareback pad that had a tendency to get loose. I leaned over to duck some branches and it slipped right around and I fell Into the ravine onto a rock and dislocated my shoulder and also broke my arm. The horse did nothing wrong. I threw that pad away. Bad equipment is dangerous!
I was bucked off while mounting, landing roughly 80 feet from where I started. I was knocked unconscious and had a fractured acetabulum, ribs and assorted internal injuries.
My last TB was frightened by a Train passing by on a track about 20 feet by us. No where to turn away. He galloped with the train and finally found an opening in the path and made a quick turn throwing me into a metal building. In hospital more than a month with many broken bones. When I recovered I was not afraid, but anxious to get back on him. My children sent him to retirement, and got me a sweet Oldenberg mare.