BY SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT, THE EQUINE PARTICIPANT IS KNOWINGLY ASSUMING ALL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH EQUINE ACTIVITY, WAIVING THE RIGHT TO SUE THE EQUINE SPONSOR AND EQUINE PROFESSIONAL, AND RELEASING THEM FROM LIABILITY AS PROVIDED BY THE CODE.
The risks inherent in equine activities, which can cause or contribute to or result in death and personal injury to any participant include, but are not limited to: (i) the propensity of an equine to behave in dangerous ways or to trip and/or fall; (ii) the inability of anyone whomsoever to predict or foresee an equine's reaction to excitement, weather conditions, sound, movements, objects, persons, animals, reptiles, birds or insects, and the effects of such reactions; (iii) the hazards of surface or subsurface conditions, including but not limited to, objects or conditions on, under or protruding from the surface, both latent and patent; (iv) the hazards which rocks, cliffs, hills, fences, trees, stumps, logs, bridges, ditches and other debris and obstacles, and any equine activity in connection therewith that may be foreseeably or unforeseeably present; (v) the dangers and risks of tack or harness slipping or breaking for whatever reason: (vi) the dangers and risks of becoming entangled in tack, harness, vehicles used in an equine activity; (vii) the risks of falling from or otherwise becoming unstable on an equine or a vehicle used in an equine activity for any reason whatsoever or for no identifiable reason.
The Participant hereby authorizes and consents to any emergency medical care which may at the time appear reasonably appropriate under the circumstances as a result of injury or sickness incurred during, caused by, or incurred in, the course of any equine activity. If this Agreement is executed by the undersigned Participant for and on behalf or a minor Participant named below, the undersigned Participant hereby warrants and represents that he/she is, in fact, the legal parent or guardian of the person and estate of such minor, with full rights and custody and control of said minor, that this Agreement is made on behalf of, and is intended to be binding upon, said minor participant, his/her heirs, personal representative, successors and assigns; and the undersigned Participant further agrees that this Agreement shall also be as fully binding on the undersigned Participant as if it were entered into solely on her/his own behalf.