The most common injuries were sustained to the chest (54%) and head (48%), and 45% of the patients required surgery.
The average patient was male, 47-years-old, had 27 years of riding experience, and was riding Western.
"We are very surprised to see the experience of the badly injured riders and their mounts," said Robert Mulloy, MD, FRCSC. "Calgary has a lot of money and there are hundreds of expensive and rarely ridden horses. We expected that they would have been the cause of the injuries and they were not."
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