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Second Sight Save Game' title='Second Sight Save Game' />I have been an equasy addict    his term    for many years, and was once absolutely in its grip, riding every horse I could no matter how lethal, until I got the endorphin hit I was after. Horses can break out into a sweat at night as they relive the events of the day, and I would do the same, endlessly and repetitively reliving the jumps and gallops, as three quarters of a ton of thoroughbred leaps forward to reach speeds of 2. Given other obsessions middle aged men are prone to, it was innocent enough. And I have been a lucky weekend warrior. The toll of injuries has been relatively light a broken hand, ribs and nose two dislocated shoulders mild concussion a cut cornea foot punctured by a horse shoe stud and assorted cuts and bruises. I have lost count of the times I have crawled hurt under a duvet, with my temperature plummeting. But it has taken my wifes fall from a riding school cob in Richmond Park for me once again to face unwelcome issues about the undeniable dangers involved in riding. Three weeks after landing on her back she is still off work, and in pain with internal injuries. Apart from a decent hard hat with proper straps and a quality foam back protector    which she wasnt wearing, although we have one    there have been few gadgets over the years that significantly improve riders safety. Until now. Over the past 1. Zara Phillips, have been using an air jacket that inflates in a tenth of a second as soon as the rider flies out of the saddle. Event rider Oliver Townend is protected by his jacket in a horrific fall last April. Almost all the leading riders now use them and they are widely credited with saving rider Oliver Townends life after he suffered a horrific rotational fall in April last year, when his horse hit a big timber jump, somersaulted, and then came down on top of his head and chest. I would not be here now without the air jacket, says Townend, 2. It is a massive step forward in the safety of our sport. The jackets are the invention of Lee Middleton, 3. So far, he has sold 1. Microsoft Outlook 2007 Crack. Point Two Air Jackets at 4. Initially, we were selling only to the professional market, but now half our orders are from amateur riders, says Middleton. Theres a childs version to reassure nervy parents, police forces are ordering them in high visibility yellow and overseas orders are flooding in. With supposedly two million horse riders in the UK alone, the potential of this market is huge, and already imitators have made an appearance. I have been intrigued by the Point Two Air Jackets for a while as a friend and early fan is a fellow have a go amateur, Dr Gill Ross, a consultant oncologist. She wears her air jacket loosely over ordinary clothes. Or even under them, when the only clue that she is wearing one at all is the lanyard attached to the saddle, which detonates a CO2 cylinder. I know too many people who have given up riding sooner than they should have done because of anxieties about falling off, she says. If these jackets can keep them in the saddle for longer then they can only be a good thing. Post menopausal women, with early stage osteoporosis    the bone thinning disease    should especially be wearing some kind of protection when mounted on a horse. Last weekend, the two of us attended a cross country event at Kingsclere, in Hampshire, so that I could try an air jacket for myself. Unfortunately for the photographer, I was mounted on a particularly good quality, 1. Dolly, and I didnt come off. But one rider who did, also wearing an air jacket, returned to the start on foot, covered in mud but unhurt. It had worked brilliantly, he said, and he would never ride competitively without one. I am persuaded that these jackets are an excellent invention, although with some qualifications. There have been misfires, Middleton concedes, but only when riders have failed properly to tighten the spring that fires a metal bolt into the gas canisters. The trigger mechanism is, in fact, exactly the same as for life jackets and has been proven reliable for years, but user errors are inevitable. Also, when the jackets do inflate they make a noise as loud as an air rifle. This can be problematic around nervy horses, and it is quite easy to forget to detach the lanyard from the saddle when dismounting and fire it off by mistake, as Gill has discovered. Last weekend out trail riding, I saw one anxious woman rider fall out of the saddle while we were all stationary and her placid looking cob ran off from the sound of the bang. Worse, she had only brought one gas canister, which cost 1. For most non jumping amateur hackers it would be far better to stick to a less complicated foam back protector. With eventing and showjumping widely converted to the idea of air jackets, the next big challenge is racing. It is hard to see why anything that cuts the butchers bill on National Hunt jockeys would not be welcomed. The Injured Jockey Fund pays out 1. John Francome, the former jump jockey and television racing commentator, is a converted enthusiast of the jackets, and broadcast a short report on them on Channel 4. In Ireland, the jackets are already being used in racing and Dr Michael Turner, chief medical adviser to the Jockey Club, is completing tests on a combined lightweight back protector and air jacket for use in UK racing. Microsoft Word File Cannot Open'>Microsoft Word File Cannot Open. With such interest in his invention, Mr Middleton is unlikely to be returning to equine dentistry anytime soon. Sight Word Dominoes Speed Racer Game. January 1. 5, 2. 01. Comments. 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