Originally posted by YellowLabLover
HUH!? How long ago was this!? I have never heard about "trip wires" for horses. They are trained to fall when there are shooting scenes. I have seen how it is done with my own eyes. It is a special reining and leg technique the rider does to make the horse buckle up and fall on it's side, while the rider quickly dismounts in a fashion where they (and the horse) are not injured, yet makes it appear that the rider was thrown from the horse.

I am going to browse around for this "trip wire" technique...never heard of it before, I want to know about it, *crosses fingers that is never existed*....
It was back in the early days of making movies. I heard about it on an episode of The World of Horses (a TV show). They were showing how horses are trained to fall now, and told about how they were made to fall then.

I have seen it done too. But it wasn't always the way. It was before there were laws for the way animals were treated on movie sets.