BodyCage body protectors must be declared

Eventers will have to declare on arrival at horse trials if they are competing in a BodyCage Exo-Skeleton body protector, the British Eventing (BE) sport committee decided at its meeting last month.

The protectors, which incorporate a magnesium allow cage around the trunk, are opened at the shoulder using an Allen key. They come with a key in a side flap, but BE will also provide keys to all technical advisers.

“This is specialist kit,” said BE director of sport Mike Etherington-Smith. “Site teams need to know if people are wearing them because if they fall there’s a special way of unfastening them.”

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Pippa Roome

H&H magazine editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.