This is Joanne Vaughan’s second injury at the same competition. © Georgian Equestrian Federation/Les Garennes Photography
By Equestrian Life
Georgian dressage rider Joanne Vaughan has been severely injured during a fall at the 2021 Wellington CDI event on Sunday.
The 59-year-old ex-British rider was unseated after her horse, Forbes, panicked when a sprinkler system started in the warm-up arena.
During the nasty fall, Joanne sustained a broken collarbone, several fractured ribs and a bruised and collapsed lung.
She was quickly transported to hospital in the American city and has been forced to withdraw from the competition.
Speaking later with The Chronicle of the Horse, Joanne said it was the first time she had come off the 10-year-old Hanoverian gelding who she described as normally a quiet horse.
Second Injury at Wellington
This is the second time Joanne has been injured at the Wellington CDI.
In 2016, she suffered a fractured ankle at that year’s CDI3* and the CDI4* event in Wellington after her horse spooked as it entered the arena.
Showing incredible dedication to her sport, Joanne decided she would battle on to ride in the Freestyle with her broken ankle after a quick trip to the hospital.
Equestrian Life wishes Joanne a speeding recovery.
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