IT'S the moment that all riders dread as the harshness of the world of eventing is evidenced by Evening Press photographer Frank Dwyer's dramatic shot of action from the Bramham Eventing Trials held at the weekend.

Competitor Sian Wynne Morris, riding Exclusive Imp, was sent crashing into a barrier after she came unstuck at the water jump during the Guardian Collections Senior Cross-Country discipline at Bramham.

However, despite the sickening collision, the battling rider was able to continue.

William Fox-Pitt denied Pippa Funnell a second successive Bramham victory when he took victory on Wallow and completed a one-two with Ballincoola.

Funnell, who won Bramham in 2002 on Walk on Star and landed a three-day hat-trick at Lexington, Badminton and Saumur last month, held a slender 0.4 penalty lead on Jurassic Park at the end of the cross-country phase.

This vanished when Jurassic Park collected 12 showjumping penalties against Fox-Pitt and Wallow's four, leaving Fox-Pitt to be first on Wallow and second on Ballincoola. Funnell dropped to third.

Heidi Simmons from York finished 29th on The Biz, having moved up from 33rd to 19th after the cross- country phases.

Janine Kemp, also from York, had a stop and a fall on the cross country on Glen Cova's Angel which put her out of the competition.

Northallerton's Nicola Tweddle finished 41st on Master Couture.

Updated: 11:05 Monday, June 09, 2003