In 2010, British rider Oliver Townend was wearing a vest when his horse fell on top of him at the Kentucky Three-Day Event. Townend survived, and credited his inflatable vest with minimizing his ...

Middleton said he hopes that within a year, the inflatable air vest may be in widespread racing use. But besides longer distances and barriers that horses must hurdle, jump-racing has a major ...

Spectators gasped and expected the worst when the horse ridden by Karim Florent Laghouag somersaulted over a fence and fell on top of him at a prestigious equestrian competition last September in ...

A celebrity agent’s personal assistant who died in a fall from her horse during a ‘fun ride’ in the Cotswolds was not wearing her inflatable safety vest on that fateful day, an inquest heard.

"Her horse was at the end of the field ... Normally she would wear her inflatable vest to protect her but she has a new saddle at that time and it did not have a breakaway device to activate ...