US Olympic dressage rider Courtney King-Dye is in a coma following a fall from a horse during a training session in Florida on Wednesday afternoon.
Media reports indicate King's skull was fractured when the client's horse she was schooling at her farm in Loxahatchee, Florida, fell on her. Witnesses say it appeared one of the horse's hind feet stepped on the other, and he sat down and tipped over sideways.
King, 32, was not wearing a helmet at the time.
She was flown by helicopter to St Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach.
 Courtney King-Dye and Mythilus © Terri Miller |
Lendon Gray is keeping watch at the hospital, along with King-Dye's husband and father.
King remains sedated and there has been some bleeding from the brain.
"Overnight the pressure on her brain went down," Gray said. She said neurologists were unsure when King-Dye will come out of her coma. "We're just crossing our fingers and praying like mad," Gray said.
King was to ride in the Prix St Georges at the Palm Beach Dressage Derby in Loxahatchee at the weekend.
She rode Mythilus for the US at the Olympics in 2008, but the horse succumbed to colic last October.
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