These images from the 80^th running of the Velká Pardubická, the Czech Republic’s Grand National steeplechase, appeared in the Dec. 4, 1970 issue of The Chronicle Of The Horse.

The dreaded Taxis, a five-foot hedge with a massive ditch lurking behind, has been the most feared and revered fence in the race for more than a century, and in this edition of the ’chase, it felled 12 horses—many of them in a chain reaction, as shown. Photographer Lubomir Laifert noted that 10 of those fallen jockeys gamely remounted and continued on toward the remaining 27 jumps.