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    The truth, the whole truth…

    Aug 18, 2022 5 minutes

    THINK BACK TO the last time you fell off your horse. What did you tell your friends? Your partner? Your doctor? Did it sound something like: “It was just a tumble,” or maybe: “I fell out the side door,” or perhaps: “We parted company over the fence, but I’m fine.”

    Sound familiar?

    But what really happened?

    Perhaps you were cantering on a hack, something spooked your horse, and you took a tumble at speed and landed on your head? Maybe your horse was feeling full of the joys of spring when showjumping and threw some shapes after a jump that caused you to fall awkwardly and land on your back? Or maybe a stop at a cross-country fence while in an active canter meant that you landed painfully on the jump?

    Quite different descriptions, aren’t they?

    “Equestrians are notoriously bad at describing what’s happened

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