The Fourth Appellate District reversed a judgment. In the published portion of its opinion, the court held that triable issues of fact as to primary and express contractual assumption of the risk precluded summary judgment in a wrongful death action against an equestrian coach who allegedly encouraged a teenaged competitor to enter a rigorous cross-country competition on a horse which was unsound.
Seventeen-year-old Mia Eriksson was an avid horse rider and equestrian competitor. Kristi Nunnink was her riding coach. Nunnink persuaded Mia’s mother, Karan Eriksson, that although Mia’s horse had been injured in a recent competition, the horse was fit to ride in an equestrian competition to be held in Temecula.
