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 ...

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 ...

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.