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One significant international study used the concept of days lost to training to describe problems associated with elite showjumping horses [33]. The authors note that only 6% of available training days were lost – far fewer than comparative estimates from Thoroughbreds. It perhaps says something in itself, about the prevalence of fracture, that the word is not used in the paper. Clearly, injuries as a whole and in particular fractures are far less common in the elite showjumper. The best approximation of the impact of fractures comes from the estimate that 22% of the 2357 (from a total of 39 028 horse days at risk) days lost were due to an acute orthopaedic injury. This equates to only 1.3% of all available training days.