French dressage rider Camille Judet Cheret seriously injured after falling from her horse
Camille Judet-Chéret – Surgery in hospital instead of World Cup in Basel
from Dominique Wehrmann 
Camille Judet-Chéret with Herelja Higgins at the Neumünster 2025 World Cup tournament. photo: sportfotos-lafrentz.de She herself reported the incident on her Instagram page. Alongside a training video with her top horse Herelja Higgins, she writes that she was still preparing for the World Cup competition in Basel in the morning before she fell off a “totally lovely, friendly and reliable” horse on Sunday afternoon. The horse was startled, jumped to the side, she fell and landed unhappily on her back. The result: a broken vertebra, hospital, surgery.
“Simply a reminder that our sport is dangerous, that it is never without risk with horses and that life can be turned upside down in an instant,” appeals Camille Judet-Chéret.
For her, this now means a break from riding for several months, says Judet-Chéret. The 36-year-old also took a longer break last year because she and her husband Corentin Pottier had their first child, a girl, at the beginning of July 2025.
About Camille Judet-Chéret
Camille Judet-Chéret is the daughter of French five-star judge Isabelle Judet. The whole family runs the dressage stable Pamfou Dressage, which is located between Paris and Fontainebleau. Isabelle Judet and her husband Jean-Claude Chéret founded the business in 1978. Camille Judet-Chéret and Corentin Pottier are now the second generation to run it. It is both a training and a commercial stable.
Camille Judet-Chéret took part in several European Championships in the young rider camp and presented horses at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in 2023/24. With Emoji JCD SL, she was fifth at the 2024 World Championships for five-year-olds in Ermelo. Last year, the Oldenburg son of Emilio went under Corentin Pottier, as the couple’s daughter was only a few weeks old at the time. They finished eleventh in the final.
Corentin Pottier is currently part of the French team at the Olympic Games in Paris with Gotilas du Feuillard and took part in the World Cup Final in Basel with the Totilas son in spring 2025, where they finished in a strong fourth place.
