It took jockey David Bourke a long time to recover from the broken pelvis he sustained in this rotational fall during the 1994 International Gold Cup steeplechase in The Plains, Va., but his mount, Political Angel, was unhurt.
Today Bourke works as a trainer, and photographer Douglas Lees of Warrenton, Va., continues to capture spectacular images like this one—albeit in color—as he’s done for decades.
This image, from the Dec. 24, 1965 issue of The Chronicle of the Horse, shows rider Jennifer Smith coming a cropper from Mrs. R. Neild’s Cinnamon Lad in the preliminary division of that year's national horse trials at Hideaway Farm in Geneseo, N.Y.
Stirlin Harris, who snapped this photo, still runs Hideaway Farm with his wife, Beth. Together they breed Connemara ponies (and stood the renowned eventing stallion Hideaway’s Erin Go Bragh) and are longtime members of the Genesee Valley Hunt.
This series was submitted by photographer J. Bruce Baumann of Evansville, Ind., to the National Press Photographers Association Annual Award competition in 1965. He earned second place out of roughly 9,000 entries in the sports picture series category.
This image, which first appeared in the Sept. 24, 1965 issue of The Chronicle of the Horse, shows the legendary Eve Fout in a rare position: making a “neat” landing at the Warrenton (Va.) Horse Show.
When Fout passed away in 2007, she was hailed for being an avid, lifelong horsewoman, a well-known equine artist and an accomplished conservationist.
Despite this image taken over a colossal spread fence at the 1941 Piping Rock Horse Show in New York, Sara Bosley Secor was a talented, well-known equestrienne and came from a family of strong Mid-Atlantic horsewomen.
Her mother, Elizabeth Cromwell Bosley, bred and trained the famous sprinter Chase Me, and her sister, Elizabeth C. “Betty” Bird became the first woman to train a Maryland Hunt Cup winner.
Karen O’Neal and Georgia made it over the military-themed jump at the 2012 Aspen Farms Horse Trials (Wash.), but a swan dive into the grass took O’Neal out of the competition. Both horse and rider walked away unhurt, and O’Neal came back and won the inaugural advanced section on True Avenue later that weekend.
Pennsylvania jockey Buzz Hannum and his mount Radford Boy hit the turf in the 1977 edition of the Maryland Hunt Cup.
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.
Worldy Wise and Jacek Wierzchowiecki took a swim at the May 1992 M&Ms Essex CCI** held in Gladstone, N.J. The pair led after dressage and finished the course, but they withdrew before show jumping.
They weren’t the only ones who needed a towel after cross-country. The May 29 report in the Chronicle explained that the two water jumps on course caused faults for 19 of the competitors due in part to substantial rain on that day.
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