An updated standard for the frangible devices used in the cross-country phase of eventing has been approved.
The Updated Standard V2 has been released by Britain’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) following six months of work initiated by the Eventing Frangible Device Working Group of Dave Vos, Geoff Sinclair, Mark Phillips and Jonathan Clissold.
During the six months, the group filmed fences being jumped at many events and reviewed them in slow motion. Broad testing was also carried out by British Eventing and MIM at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, as well as testing by TRL. The Updated Standard V2 has been endorsed by the Eventing Committee as well as the Risk Management Steering Group, and is being implemented progressively.