See pictures of one rider’s incredible save to stay on board at Kentucky – and find out what people were shouting as she went across country

Emily Hamel and Corvett at Kentucky 2025.

US rider Emily Hamel and her mount Corvett provided the drama in the final phase of the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event last week. Corvett has a helicopter jumping style, going very high over his fences, and at fence seven on Sunday, one of his leaps went stratospheric. He jumped his pilot out of the saddle, meaning she had to perform a brilliant save to stay on.

“That was unexpected and doesn’t happen that often, but I was like, ‘We have come too far.