Why Do You Ride with Troxel?

On a beautiful spring day my daughter and I took our horses to a popular riding trail. We were 15 min into our ride when two young boys jumped off a rock on the hillside to our left . The jumping boys started a small rock slide and spooked my horse. The horse spun and bolted. I lost my footing...

I was on a trail ride when my horse spooked and did a 360 degree turn around. I was thrown to the ground on top of pavement. My head hit the pavement so hard that if I did not have my helmet on, I do not know about what would have happen to me. I am sure th...

My life changed dramatically in 2004. After my horse took an accidental fall during competition, which knocked both he and I out, I was left in a coma for 10 days, had paralysis on my right side for 3 weeks and suffered from short term memory loss. While in Methopdist Rehabilitation, my husband and I were watching NACAR on TV...

I was riding in a drag Fox Hunt and we were galloping along a raspberry field. At the end of the field where the trucks and pickers drove was a puddle that was dried up except for some greasy mud over hard packed clay. I saw the leader's horse slip and almost go down. I tried to slow my horse...

If I hadn't been wearing my helmet in the Summer of 2000, I wouldn't be getting ready for my kids 1st and 3rd birthdays. I was 13 years old, and my dad had taken me to Frying Pan Park in Herdon, VA to school over some cross country fences. I almost always wore my helmet; It was required for most...

Only a few weeks ago my helmet saved my head!! A friend of mine recently moved her horse to our horse park here in Fort Mill SC. This new guilding was in training in another pasture so we thought we would ride over from my pasture to visit him. I was riding my Morgan mare and my...

My accident happened in November of '09, so very recent. My four year old mare and I were at a week long show and it was Saturday of that week. Everything had been going great, she had been placing well over fences and on the flat (considering she didn't have lead changes!). However, that Saturday morning I knew something was...

I went for a routine hack yesterday and didn't realize that it would end the way that it did. My horse (who is usually very road safe) spooked at a trailer being towed by a truck. Well, it was a combination of the horse spooking, having too mild of a bit and me not being in good riding c...

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...

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. I stopped briefly in the farm driveway while a few horses...

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. After falling on top of me, he tried to get up and everytime he tried to get up off of...

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...