Mathis Goerens Injured in Riding Accident

Dressage

Luxembourg

The German based Luxembourg Grand Prix rider Mathis Goerens will be sidelined for a while as he got injured in a riding accident a week ago.

The 37-year old Goerens got unseated by a bucking youngster and fell on his arm. He was brought to the hospital where he was diagnosed with severe fractures that required surgery on 12 March 2026.

"He broke his wrist into eight pieces and had to have surgery," his wife Kira Ripphoff-Goerens told Eurodressage. Mathis will not be able to ride for at least eight weeks.

Mathis was member of the Luxembourg dressage team at the 2023 European Championships in Riesenbeck aboard the Westfalian Riptide (by Rock Forever x Show Star). He hasn't competed internationally since. His rising grand Prix hope Flash Gordon was allocated a new rider at the start of January 2025 and is now being shown by Daniel Bachmann Andersen as his 2026 WEG team hopeful.

Goerens continued showing nationally in Germany through 2025 with medium tour horse Debakey (HOLST, by Damon x Krack C) and Grand Prix horses Feuerfunke (OLD, by Franziskus x Foundation) and Gucci (OLD, by Grey Flanell x Don Frederico). Riptide's last show was in March 2025. Mathis' first start of 2026 will have to wait a little longer as he recovers from his injuries.