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Five-star event rider sidelined with broken leg: ‘I’m doing as much rehab as I can and hopefully that will pay off in the long run’

Pippa Roome Pippa Roome

    • Five-star event rider Izzy Taylor has broken her left leg in a fall schooling at home.

    “This is quite a hard path for me to tread – basically any injury or challenge I’ve had before, I could physically battle through. That’s not the case with this so it’s very new and quite challenging. I can do some things, some rehab, and I’m doing as much as I can do and hopefully that will pay off in the long run,” Izzy told H&H.

    The accident happened on Wednesday 11 March.

    “The girls on the yard kindly took me into hospital and I am lucky I live very close to the John Radcliffe Hospital. They were very good and very quick. I was obviously convinced it wasn’t broken but the doctors came round with a smiling face to tell me it was,” said Izzy.

    The broken leg was operated on the next day and Izzy Taylor returned home on Friday.

    “As an athlete, our relationship with most of our people – vets, horse and human physios – is quite close and familiar. Then suddenly, you are in a situation where someone you don’t know is dealing with something quite major and you have no control whatsoever, which is unnerving,” said Izzy.

    “But they were fantastic and very reassuring. I was very lucky that my location meant the consultants were some of the best about and other experts who have seen the post-operation X-rays say they have done a really good job.”

    Izzy does not know how long it will be before she’s back riding.

    “The doctors are not that keen on telling you because everyone likes to sue and equally I haven’t pushed for an answer because if I’m told a date, I’m going to beat it, which is possibly not the most sensible thing to be doing,” she said.

    Izzy said she is very grateful to her owners for “staying loyal and being understanding” as well as paying tribute to her team at home who are keeping the yard running.

    She said: “I have built up a very good team around me and this is a new challenge for them. They are not used to me not riding and the first couple of weeks, I wasn’t out on the yard, but I’m filtering back out there now – I’m not sure if they are pleased about that!

    “I am hugely lucky and grateful for their support. It’s hard on them too because they’re with me because they like to be on a competitive yard which takes horses out competing and we’re not doing that right now.”

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    Pippa Roome
    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.
    Pippa Roome

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