Soloman v. Taylor

*1181“As a general rule, participants in a sporting event or activity may be held to have consented to those injury-causing events which are known, apparent or reasonably foreseeable” (Rubenstein v Woodstock Riding Club, 208 AD2d 1160, 1160 [1994] [citation omitted]). “[A]n inherent risk in sporting events involving horses is injury due to the sudden and unintended actions of the animals, . . . [including] being thrown or falling” (Tilson v Russo, 30 AD3d 856, 857 [2006] [internal quotation marks and citations omitted]). “The experience of the participant certainly is relevant in deciding whether…