Dilemma: We all know that when horses gallop faster, almost all of them "flatten" more, like greyhounds, to have more reach. This is an effective way to cover ground, but a potentially lethal way to approach a jump that isn`t sloping and fo...

rgiving, like a steeplechase fence. A faster, flatter approach leads to a faster, flatter trajectory. Simple physics.

Now that courses have become more technical, there are more places that riders have to set up, to be precisely accurate. They have to break the gallop rhythm, and this slows the speed. To make up for all the slowdowns, they have to race where they can. And if they race at some big table, and miss the distance, that`s the recipe for a rotational fall. There have been many of these falls by eventing`s very best riders, not just the lesser riders. Something is "broken."