Kate Chadderton is an Australian eventer who is now based here in the US. Over the weekend she fell off at just the right time, if such a thing is possible. On Sunday Kate took one of her (now former) event horses, McCuan Mario, to the Grand Prix at Swan Lake. It was just their 6th show jumping compeition and their first Grand Prix together and as you can see in the video it went pretty well…until the last fence. Kate still show jumps in a cross-country saddle and when her horse kicked up over the last jump, her left stirrup leather got caught behind the block on the saddle. In true eventer fashion, Kate managed to hang on just long enough to cross the finish flags before falling off. You can see the imprint of her fall right after the finish flags in the below photo:
Thanks to Kate for sending us the video and photo and congrats on a good save. [Kate’s website] Go eventing.
