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Originally Posted by casp0555
I was talking to an exercise rider at Sam Houston about this Saturday and he said a similar accident occurred that morning. He said he thought both riders were okay but one of the horses was injured. Again a horse lost a rider and ran into the other.
Understand that I am not very knowledgeable about training/working horses, but is this type of accident common?? Seems very dangerous for both animal and human.
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Well, as the sportscasters like to say, it's the only sport where an ambulance follows the athletes over the course. But I don't think it's a common occurrence.
Horses are big animals and at full speed that's a lot of mass going forward at a great rate. As people said in the wake of Paul Walker's death- it's not the speed that does the damage; it's the sudden stop.