Overview

• Senior coroner Anne Pember heard that Yorke’s horse failed to clear the third fence and landed on her during the cross-country phase.
• The accident happened on 8 August at the Aston-le-Walls Horse Trials in Northamptonshire, and the remaining competition was abandoned.
• British Eventing said medical professionals attended immediately, but she could not be saved, and her horse, MGH HERA, was assessed uninjured.
• The inquest noted other competitors had successfully completed the same fence prior to the fall, with further examination to come at the full hearing.
• Yorke, 37, was a primary school teacher and mother who had recently stepped up to BE100 with MGH HERA after a BE90 win, drawing tributes from her school and the eventing community.