I have worn only Troxel helmets throughout my 17 year riding career. About 5 years ago I was schooling in the covered arena at the barn where I board. I was riding my 16 year old FEI dressage schoolmaster. When I purchased him, he was described as “exceptionally safe and kind” and lived up to every bit of that. Read More…

Set off on the first warm, sunny day in March 2010 on a trail ride for my weekly lesson. Throughout the ride, various horses spooked and generally misbehaved, but other than my horse rushing to get back to the farm, I had a good ride and was feeling confident. Read More…

While running my horse through the barrel pattern at a barrel race in Unadilla, GA. my horse was running to the second barrel and then he tripped. When he tripped, he fell end-over-end on me and piledrived me into the ground. Read More…

I never really knew why helmets were so important during riding. But I wore one anyways just in case. It all started on a nice chilly day , my brother, cousin, friend, and I all went out on a trail. But to get to that trail you had to ride beside the road. I was nervous but I did it before so what was there to worry about? Read More…

I was riding my green horse…5 rides old… when someone crept in from a dark hallway and spooked my horse. The horse bolted, and silly me, I was not riding with a saddle. I got off balance and pulled on the reins (horse didn’t have a stop yet), and he panicked even more and started to buck. Read More…

Slipped off a horse during lessons off the saddle but I had my Troxel Helmet on with no head injuries of any but body was sore for a month. At least I kept my head and helmet on and got back on the horse the next week.

It was a cool, gorgeous day in November of this year in the fields of the State University of Long Island, NY, perfect trail riding weather. We were out in a sunny field, a group of six. Wearing my new breeches and in my brand new Troxel Legacy Gold Duratec, I was riding a horse I knew was a few months off the track. Read More…

In June 2006, at the age of 34, I began pursuing a life-long dream of learning to ride horses. My lessons began with a package deal that included 4 sessions in a class of 6 beginner riders on mild-mannered school horses. On our 4th lesson, the horses spooked. The one I was riding bucked, and I was launched into the air. Read More…

I had brain surgery in June and wanted to ride the worst, but still had the brain tumor and my Dr. said that I must wear a helmet “IF” I were to continue riding. So, I looked at them, thinking all the time that I did not like them, never had to wear them and wish that I did not at that time. I bought one and after only 6 weeks Read More…

It was a beautiful sunny summer afternoon about 15 years ago. We were at a BBQ at by bosses home in Oregon. Even though it had been awhile since I had ridden, my love of horses won out and I asked to ride the horse in her field and was given the okay. No one told me he had not been ridden for about five years, but had been training to pull a wagon instead. Read More…