Sharing how to make traditional cross-country fences frangible set to improve eventing safety worldwide

Participants look at components for a new-age deformable fence during a seminar on frangible fences in Australia in January 2026.

The team behind the new age of frangible fences as seen for the first time in Britain last season are travelling the world to share their knowledge and learn new ideas.

A range of traditional-looking fences, which incorporated a frangible “parallelogram” chassis, were seen for the first time at Thoresby 2025 (news, 27 March and 3 April).

Course-designer...