Andy wrote:
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>> The worst part is that I am going to have to consider giving up riding
>> lessons. I broke my collar bone 6 years ago but went back to lessons
>> when that healed and thought that I could keep doing it as long as there
>> were no more injuries. Now I have broken a second bone, and I am
>> getting close to 60.
>> :-(
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> Geez, that sucks! At lease you live to talk about it!
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> At YMCA camp I was 7-yo, a horse reared me off it, I landed on the ground.
> It was just a roped around and around a pole, coral exercise. Don't know
> what I did or didn't do or why it did what it did but I've never gone near
> a horse ever since.


I used to ride once every year or two and fell off so often that I
assumed that was part of the deal. I have been taking lessons for the
last 6 years and had not fallen for more than two years. Only got hurt a
few times falling, but broken collar bone and rib are painful enough to
make me reconsider equestrian jumping at my age.