Overview
- Police and paramedics responded to the Indian Relay at the Enoch Rodeo Grounds on Saturday after a horse veered off course and struck Georgina Lightning, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Alberta RCMP gave initial details of the response and Occupational Health and Safety (Alberta) has taken charge of the formal investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
- Local reports say Lightning was working on a documentary about the three-day Indian Relay and was photographing the event from a designated media area, a detail investigators are reviewing.
- Family, friends and colleagues have posted tributes online with her daughter Crystle calling her a matriarch and co-star Tim Healy offering condolences.
- Lightning, 63, was known for acting roles including Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and for writing and directing Older Than America, a film rooted in her family’s residential‑school history, and her death raises questions about safety at high‑risk equestrian events.