>>>> I do not believe that a few minutes - 5 minutes loose, 5 minutes "see the >>>> ice with a rider", 5 minutes competing (with another 5 minutes if the >>>> horse is in a final) once a year or less will cause long term dmage in a >>>> fit horse.
>> I chased Sophie across the kitchen a few weeks ago...one leap...and my knee >> was buggered....still is... Yeah, if you think of it that way, I think I was probably airborne less than a second that fateful day back in May 2002...and then I didn't walk at all for five days, couldn't walk without a walker for 3-4 weeks, wore a back brace for 3 months, and had a crippling sciatic injury for almost two years... BUT luckily, I finally got back pretty much to normal. It could easily been VERY different, and it all happened in a split second. Karen Thomas, NC
