Hi, I just saw that July 10 is National Helmet Awareness Day and wanted to tell you I am alive and well as a result of wearing a Troxel helmet. Read More…
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Kicks, Falls and other Close Calls.
Twice in six weeks!
I was on a trail ride with my dog, riding the gravel back-roads near my home. As we were approaching a paved county road my horse became progressively more agitated. Read More…
– June 29, 2010
My helmet saved my head!
I was riding a mare that I recently rescued. She’s very sensitive but had improved so much since I got her that I was feeling great about riding her in the pasture alone. Read More…
– June 29, 2010
It Happened So Fast!
My horse spooked as we went under a tree branch. He bolted forward and then quickly went sideways and I fell off. Read More…
– June 25, 2010
Down But Not Done
Memorial Day 2010 my son and I were trail riding out from our farm in central Maryland. We were about a mile into the woods when my horse, for unknown reasons, went into a series of bucks. Read More…
– June 23, 2010
The Tree Almost Won
My daughter was cantering her horse, out in a field, and was asking her to bend one direction, yet her horse wanted to go the other direction and there was a tree in between. Read More…
– June 21, 2010
My Accident Created New Helmet Wearers
In the summer of 2007, several ladies and I were trail riding in northern Indiana. For some unknown reason, my mare went into rodeo mode. After trying to stay on, I was finally thrown off. Read More…
– June 10, 2010
Because of helmets, we continue to live our lives with our first passion- horses
A Troxel Legacy Gold helmet literally saved my friend’s life. She still had a bad head injury with the helmet, but it was recoverable, and she is fine. She would have died on impact without the helmet. Read More…
– June 10, 2010
Macho Husband and then Smart Husband
When we first started riding my husband refused to wear a helmet. He felt western riders only wore cowboy hats. Well, we were riding around our neighborhood and he was trotting when his stirrup broke and he fell off into the street. It was the most awful thing I have every seen. Read More…
– June 10, 2010
Still alive & back in the saddle!
September 4, 2006 I was riding a leased horse, Louie. We had been riding in the outdoor arena when another boarder came out to the arena and opened a gate to a pasture that contains rich grass.
– June 9, 2010