Teenage eventer returns to school after fall at Mattingley
Seventeen-year-old eventer, Chloe Briffa, who suffered a severe fall at Mattingley Horse Trials (31 July), returned to school part-time on Thursday.
Chloe, from Horsham, West Sussex, was put into a medically induced coma by doctors at Southampton hospital to allow swelling on her brain to subside.
The teenager fell from her horse Paddington Bear IX in the showjumping phase of a BE80T class.
She awoke from the coma on 9 August.
Her father Mark told H&H: “Chloe is progressing well. She left hospital three weeks ago and was able to return to school part-time last week.”
He said Chloe has been told she cannot ride for six months and must not compete for a year.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.