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.
This image of a near disaster at the 14th fence on the My Lady’s Manor Point-to-Point (Md.) course originally ran in the April 29, 1977 issue of The Chronicle of the Horse. Amazingly, the loose horse, King’s Courier, narrowly avoided the unnamed daredevil photographer, and both went home unscathed.
In selecting this month’s Parting Ways photo from our 74 years worth of archives, I noticed this image from the 1959 Upperville Colt and Horse Show, the oldest horse show in the country. Just a few weeks ago, the 158th edition of the show kicked off in Upperville, Va., 7 miles down the road from the Chronicle’s base in Middleburg.
This image, taken by Marshall Hawkins, shows Robert Gibbon on his top mount Bowie Gibbon clearing the high jump—albeit in a precarious position—52 years ago.
British show jumper Nick Skelton, who went on to win team gold at the 2012 London Olympic Games, didn’t technically take a tumble during this crash back in 1978, but the fence certainly took a beating.
This image shows Skelton, then just 20 years old, making his first attempt at a new British high jump record during the Olympia CSI in London aboard Everest Lastic. The pair did clear the obstacle eventually, setting a new record of 7’7 5/16” (2.32 meters) to beat the 41-year-old previous record set by Donald Beard on Swank in the same arena in 1937.
“You’re not going to win this one!”
That was Ross Legalloudec’s familiar battle cry with Ed, the adorable Welsh pony with whom he starred in the YouTube hit “Ed Being Very Naughty.”
In the fall of 1959, renowned equine photographer Marshall Hawkins captured this image of Mrs. C.F. Blair and Tuffy coming a cropper while following the Bath County hounds in western Virginia.
Hawkins, of Warrenton, Va., shot foxhunting, flat racing, steeplechasing, polo, eventing and showing across the country for more than 50 years, capturing iconic images of Secretariat at the 1973 Preakness Stakes and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy riding and hunting in northern Virginia in the mid-1960s.
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