• Follow safety precautions with respect to inspection of footing, condition of fences, goal posts.
  
• Have a well equipped first aide kit and someone trained in first aide or paramedics on site.
  
• Post large visible signs warning of the dangers with respect to horses and horse related activities and of the danger of flying balls.
  
• Consider spectator safety in relation to your particular site, and enforce a "buffer zone" between the field and the spectator area to aviod contact with horses and flying balls.
  
• Have a horse ambulance, truck, stock trailer, and several ropes on site and available for use in emergency.
  

• Require membership in the Provincial Equestrian Association of all participants where practical.
  
• Release and Acknowledgment forms should be obtained where applicable (see Section 4).
  
• Ensure participants follow safety rules i.e. wear a safety approved helmet with safety harness, boots with heels.
  

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