Jules Ennis (right) and her friend, Ellie Brown (left), hanging out by the Hartpury Equine sign.
Preliminary reports on Twitter seem to indicate that a moving vehicle collided with a horse and rider on cross-country today at Hartpury Horse Trials today in England. Hartpury released an official statement on their website:
Russell Marchant, Hartpury College Principal and President of the Organising Committee for the Hartpury Horse Trials said:
“We can confirm there was an incident involving a competitor and an official’s vehicle on the CCI** cross country course this afternoon. There will be a full investigation into this incident and we are doing everything we can to provide support to those involved.”
**Update 2:00pm ET** It appears the horse and rider involved were Tom Rowland and W. Iridium (“Viz.”) It appears they are both okay, and Tom will be show jumping The Carnival Cavalier in the CCI* tomorrow.
Thank you everyone for your concern, an utterly terrifying experience. We are both fine. Not sure how has we honestly could have been killed
— Tom Rowland (@treventing) August 10, 2013
Viz and I in rehab! I’m looking forward to jumping Connor tomorrow and Viz must be made out of steel. pic.twitter.com/4zEX2uIiHT
— Tom Rowland (@treventing) August 10, 2013
In the CIC***, William Fox-Pitt led after dressage on Parklane Hawk with a score of 34.8. He has two others in the top 10 as well. American Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen also had a lovely test to earn a 39.2, good enough for 6th place going into show jumping. Unfortunately, Clark got lost on course. It happens to all of us!
