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Look Before You Leap: What Are the Obstacles to Risk Calculation in the Equestrian Sport of Eventing?
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- Equine fatalities in equestrian eventing.Equine veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Equestrian Trauma in an Urban Environment: A Retrospective Analysis in a Level I Trauma Center.Cureus · 2025Article
- Horse-riding hazards: an observational cohort study mapping equestrian related injuries at a Scandinavian trauma centre.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Maxillofacial Horse Trauma: A 10-Year Retrospective Study at a UK Major Trauma Center.Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction · 2022Article
- Champing at the Bit for Improvements: A Review of Equine Welfare in Equestrian Sports in the United Kingdom.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- What People Really Think About Safety around Horses: The Relationship between Risk Perception, Values and Safety Behaviours.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Effects of body protection vests and experience levels in prevention of equestrian injuries.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
All horse-riding is risky. In competitive horse sports, eventing is considered the riskiest, and is often characterised as very dangerous. But based on what data? There has been considerable research on the risks and unwanted outcomes of horse-riding in general, and on particular subsets of horse-riding such as eventing. However, there can be problems in accessing accurate, comprehensive and comparable data on such outcomes, and in using different calculation methods which cannot compare like with like. This paper critically examines a number of risk calculation methods used in estimating risk for riders in eventing, including one method which calculates risk based on hours spent in the activity and in one case concludes that eventing is more dangerous than motorcycle racing. This paper argues that the primary locus of risk for both riders and horses is the jump itself, and the action of the horse jumping. The paper proposes that risk calculation in eventing should therefore concentrate primarily on this locus, and suggests that eventing is unlikely to be more dangerous than motorcycle racing. The paper proposes avenues for further research to reduce the likelihood and consequences of rider and horse falls at jumps.
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