Here at Eventing Nation we spend our free time playing with chinchillas, jumping our horses over exact 1/5 scale replicas of the 1988 Badminton course, and toasting the days of the long format three-day. It’s all very official and dignified as I am sure you can imagine. Sometimes I wonder what Leslie and the rest of the Horse Nation Team do all day instead of, you know, respectable journalism. Today offers some insight as a hunt cap experiences the business end of a flight of stairs. Take it away Leslie…
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From Leslie:
Riders4Helmets has explained that Charles Owen ceased manufacturing hunt caps in January 2012 and has announced that it will no longer sell unapproved helmets in North America by 2013.
Say Roy Owen, “We started being very involved in helmet safety and standards as early as 1953, and as the public becomes more aware of helmet safety and what we provide, our business has certainly moved away from the hunt cap, and towards creating triple standard helmets to give people more protection in the event of any accident around a horse.”
In another recent development, Dover Saddlery has reclassified hunt caps from “helmets” to “hats,” placing them alongside top hats on their webpage with a strong safety warning.
Here at Horse Nation, we need every brain cell we can get, so we salute the proactive decisions on the part of both Charles Owen and Dover Saddlery. This was the best way we could think of to show our support.
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