Horror Statistics:   “the most frequent cause of
multiple injuries in sport of any description is horse riding”[1]

700 brain injuries[2] and 20 horse related deaths^[3] occur in my own country, Australia, every year.   Riders are 3 times more at risk of injury than motorcycle racers, and six times more at risk than race car drivers[4] - and think of the training you get before you're allowed to be a race car driver - and the protective equipment a race car driver has!

The statistics in the USA are simply frightening:[5]

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