When He’s A Conniver and jockey Jody Petty fell at the second fence on the $75,000 Livingsocial Virginia Gold Cup course on May 7, it started a chain reaction.

More Fascination, the horse behind them, saw the pair rolling in the grass upon landing and shot to the left, sending jockey Paddy Young flying like a lawn dart. Then Delta Park (not pictured) shied to the right of the roadblocks, ditching his rider, Xavier Aizpuru. The three grass-stained jockeys could only watch as their mounts galloped off without them.

Eclipse-award winning photographer Douglas Lees captured the chaos frame by frame, but no horses or riders were hurt. Only two of the six starters finished the 86^th annual race, with Blair Wyatt piloting Merriefield Farm’s Bon Caddo under the wire first by 13 lengths.