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  • 26
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    2013
    8:04pm, EST

    Alan Crowhurst / Getty Images

    Horse goes head over hooves at Cheltenham

    Jockey Peter Buchanan and horse Bold Sir Brian fly over a hedge during The Murphy Group Steeple Chase at Cheltenham racecourse, Jan. 26, in Cheltenham, England.

    Updated on Jan. 28, 2013: According to a report by Will Hayler of sportinglife.com, Bold Sir Brian was able to get back to his feet after falling at Cheltenham on Saturday.

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    Was the horse injured?

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  • 14
    Mar
    2012
    1:45pm, EDT

    Camilla reacts as horse flips during race in Cheltenham

    Eddie Keogh / Reuters

    Britain's Camilla, center, Duchess of Cornwall, and Zara Phillips, right, react as Wishfull Thinking falls unseating jockey Richard Johnson during The Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England on March 14.

    Stefan Wermuth / Reuters

    Wishfull Thinking , left, falls, unseating jockey Richard Johnson during the Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase at the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England on March 14.

    Alan Crowhurst / Getty Images

    Richard Johnson riding Wishful Thinking falls during The sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase at Cheltenham racecourse on March 14 in Cheltenham, England.

    Alan Crowhurst / Getty Images

    Richard Johnson riding Wishful Thinking falls during The sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase at Cheltenham racecourse on March14, in Cheltenham, England.

    Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

    Richard Johnson riding Wishful Thinking falls during The sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase at Cheltenham racecourse on March14 in Cheltenham, England.

    By John Makely, NBC News

     As scary as this looks a published report in thescore.ie  says that neither jockey Richard Johnson nor the photographer who was knocked down were seriously injured after Wishful Thinking flipped while landing the jump and that the horse was unhurt as well.

     

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    As long as the horse is ok.

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  • 14
    Mar
    2012
    10:49am, EDT

    Betting on a good time: Body paint, fancy hats and horses at the Cheltenham festival

    Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty Images

    Performers with painted bodies arrive for the start of the second day of the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival in Gloucestershire, western England, on March 14. The genteel Georgian town of Cheltenham will become the centre of the universe for jump racing enthusiasts as it plays host to the 2012 National Hunt Festival.

    Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty Images

    Horses jump during the JLT Specialty Handicap Steeple Chase race on the first day of the Cheltenham Racing Festival in Gloucestershire, western England, on March 13.

    Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty Images

    Ladies arrive for 'Ladies Day' at the Cheltenham horse racing Festival in Gloucestershire, western England, on March 14, 2012. The genteel Georgian town of Cheltenham will become the centre of the universe for jump racing enthusiasts as it plays host to the 2012 National Hunt Festival.

    Matt Cardy / Getty Images

    Horse racing enthusiasts watch a race on Champion Day at the Cheltenham Festival 2012 on March 13, in Cheltenham, England. Tens of thousands of racing enthusiasts are expected at the four-day festival which ends on Friday and is seen by many as the highlight of the jump racing calender.

     

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    I can't believe all the interest in this "so proper" type of sporting event by the Brits .... I know my post will surely get smothered , in the deluge of posts here ....

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