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There are two answers to this question. The first and obvious answer: people break their wrists when they fall off their horse, land on their arm and injure their arm. It happens. The second way a rider breaks a wrist is just an expression - it is not a literal broken bone. "To break at the wrist" when riding English style means that while holding the reins, the rider is bending his/her wrist or wrists and, in doing so, causing the hands to angle inwardly. The proper hand position in English riding establishes an invisible straight line between the horse's mouth up to the rider's elbow. Breaking at the wrists disrupts this invisible line and proper form. So, many a riding instructor has been known to yell across the ring "Quit breaking at the wrist!!! or "Stop breaking your wrists!"

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