Predictors of race-day jockey falls in flat racing in Australia

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 693-698

  Hitchens, Peta Lee ^a   Blizzard, Christopher Leigh ^a   Jones, Graeme ^a   Day, Lesley ^b   Fell, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FALLING; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSEBACK RIDING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DAY FALL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACING JOCKEY; RISK FACTOR; SPORT INJURY; STUDENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SEX FACTORS;

CONGIOPODIDAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 77956896619     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.050567     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Hitchens P, Blizzard CL, Jones G, et al. The incidence of race-day jockey falls in Australia, 2002-2006. MJA 2009;190:83-6.
2. Balendra G, Turner M, McCrory P. Career-ending injuries to professional jockeys in British horse racing (1991-2005). Br J Sports Med 2008;42:22-4.
3. Balendra G, Turner M, McCrory P, et al. Injuries in amateur horse racing (point to point racing) in Great Britain and Ireland during 1993-2006. Br J Sports Med 2007;41:162-6.
4. Turner M, McCrory P, Halley W. Injuries in professional horse racing in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland during 1992-2000. Br J Sports Med 2002;36:403-9.
5. Whitlock MR, Whitlock J, Johnston B. Equestrian injuries: a comparison of professional and amateur injuries in Berkshire. Br J Sports Med 1987;21:25-6.
6. McCrory P, Turner M, LeMasson B, et al. An analysis of injuries resulting from professional horse racing in France during 1991-2001: a comparison with injuries resulting from professional horse racing in Great Britain during 1992-2001. Br J Sports Med 2006;40:614-18.
7. Forero Rueda MA, Halley WL, Gilchrist MD. Fall and injury incidence rates of jockeys while racing in Ireland, France and Britain. Injury. Published Online First: 2009 Jun 13. doi:10.1016/j.injury.2009.05.009.
8. Press JM, Davis PD, Wiesner SL, et al. The national jockey injury study: an analysis of injuries to professional horse-racing jockeys. Clin J Sport Med 1995;5:236-40.
9. Waller AE, Daniels JL, Weaver NL, et al. Jockey Injuries in the United States. JAMA 2000;283:1326-8.
10. Oikawa M. The science of safety helmets - safety for helmets or safety for jockeys? Japan Racing Journal 2004;12:5-6.
11. Ingemarson H, Grevsten S, Thorén L. Lethal horse-riding injuries. J Trauma 1989;29:25-30.
12. Silver JR, Lloyd Parry JM. Hazards of horse-riding as a popular sport. Br J Sports Med 1991;25:105-10.
13. Williams F, Ashby K. Horse related injuries. 23 edn. Melbourne: Monash University Accident Research Centre, 1995.
14. Bixby-Hammett DM. Pediatric equestrian injuries. Pediatrics 1992;89:1173-6.
15. Thomas KE, Annest JL, Gilchrist J, et al. Non-fatal horse related injuries treated in emergency departments in the United States, 2001-2003. Br J Sports Med 2006;40:619-26.
16. Masters RG. Equestrian injuries: a review. Clin J Sport Med 1991;1:123-6.
17. Northey G. Interpreting human and horse interactions: Equestrian injuries in NZ: A review of the literature. New Zealand: Accident Compensation Corporation, 2006.
18. Mayberry JC, Pearson TE, Wiger KJ, et al. Equestrian injury prevention efforts need more attention to novice riders. J Trauma 2007;62:735-9.
19. Lim J, Puttaswamy V, Gizzi M, et al. Pattern of equestrian injuries presenting to a Sydney teaching hospital. ANZ J Surg 2003;73:567-71. (Pubitemid 37056061)
20. Moss PS, Wan A, Whitlock MR. A changing pattern of injuries to horse riders. Emerg Med J 2002;19:412-15.
21. McCrory P, Turner M. Equestrian injuries. In: Caine DJ, Maffulli N, eds. Epidemiology of pediatric sports injuries: individual sports. Basel: Karger, 2005:8-17.
22. Paix BR. Rider injury rates and emergency medical services at equestrian events. Br J Sports Med 1999;33:46-8.
23. Watt GM, Finch CF. Preventing equestrian injuries: locking the stable door. Sports Med 1996;22:187-97.
24. Australian Racing Board. Australian racing fact book: a guide to the racing industry in Australia 2002-2003. Sydney: Australian Racing Board, 2003.
25. Australian Racing Board. Australian racing fact book: a guide to the racing industry in Australia 2003-2004. Sydney: Australian Racing Board, 2004.
26. Australian Racing Board. Australian racing fact book: a guide to the racing industry in Australia 2004-2005. Sydney: Australian Racing Board, 2005.
27. Australian Racing Board. Australian racing fact book: a guide to the racing industry in australia 2005-2006. Sydney: Australian Racing Board, 2006.
28. Cripps RA, O'Brien D. Monitoring falls during eventing: establishment of a national surveillance system to monitor injury to riders and horses from falls during the cross-country phase of eventing in Australia. Canberra: Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation, 2004.
29. Cowley SP, Bowman B, Lawrance M. Injuries in the Victorian thoroughbred racing industry. Br J Sports Med 2007;41:639-43. (Pubitemid 47518429)
30. Pinchbeck GL, Clegg PD, Proudman CJ, et al. Case-control study to investigate risk factors for horse falls in hurdle racing in England and Wales. Vet Rec 2003;152:583-7.
31. Pinchbeck GL, Clegg PD, Proudman CJ, et al. Case-control investigation of the factors affecting the risk of horses falling during steeplechase racing in the UK. Vet Rec 2004;155:11-15.
32. Pinchbeck GL, Clegg PD, Proudman CJ, et al. Whip use and race progress are associated with horse falls in hurdle and steeplechase racing in the UK. Equine Vet J 2004;36:384-9.
33. Proudman C, Pinchbeck G, Clegg P, et al. Risk of horses falling in the Grand National: analysis of past tumbles in this gruelling steeplechase points to ways of making it safer. Nature 2004;428:385-6.
34. Foote CE, Foote GA, Saxon JA. Jockey injuries in Australian thoroughbred horse racing. In: Bryden WL, ed. Proceedings of the Australian Equine Science Symposium. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland 2008;21.
35. Mills DS, McDonnell SM. The domestic horse: the origins, development, and management of its behaviour: Cambridge University Press, 2005.