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Dutch
Dressage News
Anky van Grunsven Breaks Leg
January 17, 2003
 This
morning, Anky van Grunsven had a serious accident when
riding her Grand Prix horse Gestion Joker. Joker was
frisky and jumpy and bucked so hard that Anky was launched
from her saddled and dropped hard on the ground.
Van Grunsven fell so hard that she fractured her upper
leg. She was immediately brought to the hospital where
she was operated on the complicated bone fracture she
sustained. Sjef Janssen said that, "I could only
look and see, it happened so fast." Anky van Grunsven
will be out for at least several months.
Gestion Joker, who has been out for months himself
first due to a leg injury, has not been brought back
into competition after his recouperation. The rumoured
reason is that the horse does not comply with the Anky/Sjef
training system and has been refusing to go every since.
Image copyrighted: Dirk
Caremans - Anky and Joker at the 2000 CDI-W Mechelen
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