Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2007-09-24

1) People get more injuries riding horses than motorcycles.

The CBC article reads:

  Horse-riding injuries requiring hospitalization occurred at a rate of
  0.49 per 1,000 hours riding, while the rate for motorcycle riding was
  0.14 per 1,000 hours, the research showed.
  
  ...
  
  "Previous studies assumed that major accidents on horseback were caused
  by rookie riders on untrained horses or weather bad something we now know
  is simply not true," said Dr. Rob Mullroy in a news release.