I SAT on the path just staring at the green screens. Any fatality is tragic but what would happen to our sport if this man had been killed? The man who has won more international events than anyone else, and is probably the most recognisable rider in the world. The man who is a role model to thousands, including me, and consistently gets things right. As we all know, William Fox-Pitt survived his fall at the keyhole fence in Lion d’Angers, France, and recovered to ride in his fifth Olympics in Rio, but to say the least it was obviously a very close call.

So was anyone or anything responsible for his fall?