life-long horse rider Jayne Grimshaw was seriously injured after a fall from which she was lucky to escape with her life.

life-long horse rider Jayne Grimshaw was seriously injured after a fall from which she was lucky to escape with her life. The experienced dressage rider, aged 42, was hacking out Spencer, a 14-year-old horse schooled at El Jinete Rehabilitation Centre near La Cala Golf Resort.
Riding the 475-kilo horse, followed closely behind by a paying guest on another horse, Jayne headed out towards the Rio Seco, not realising the nightmare which was about to be unleashed.
As the pair of horses walked along a cement-covered section of road towards the river, without warning Jayne’s horse collapsed onto the concrete surface, trapping her beneath. With the horse unable to get to its feet, the guest rider could only watch on in horror as the animal writhed around in panic before regaining its footing.
The horrifying accident only lasted a matter of seconds but left Jayne with her tibia shattered and exposed through her shin. With her shoulder dislocated and with only her riding jodhpurs holding the bone in her leg in place, Jayne held onto the panicked animal’s reins until help arrived fifteen minutes later. Four local men who happened to be driving by and lifted her into a friend’s car and off to the Costa del Sol A&E ward.
She was released six days later, wheelchair bound and needing daily injections and medical care, with her leg pinned and plated and a prognosis of six months immobilisation followed by painful physiotherapy.
After enquiring about the stables personal injury insurance, she and her husband Paul were met with the news that the El Jinete Rehabilitation Centre was closing down and, given no advance warning, not only did they and other patrons of the La Cala stables have to find new homes for their horses, they were told the owner was unavailable as she had gone on holiday.