Tag: US Para Equestrian Association

By Patti Schofler: How coaches and athletes tend to the training and management needs of the para-dressage horse. Reprinted from USDF Connection Nov/Dec '25.

I had gone on an inn-to-inn weeklong trail riding trek. On the second day, the horse I was riding tripped violently, falling on top of me, at the beach on the water's edge. I fell in the water, and I could feel it up to my ears while lying immobile with my head held still by another rider, waiting for the helicopter to airlift me to Galway University Hospital. Another French doctor rider, a cardiologist, also tended to me, and they saved my life.