Abel Lezcano, 33, clung to a horse’s neck and later hoisted himself atop it after one of his stirrups broke during a race in Illinois on Sunday.
Instead, the jockey, 33-year-old Abel Lezcano, was clinging to the horse’s neck, hanging on sideways after one of his stirrups broke.
The race, the third of the day at the Hawthorne Race Course in Illinois, had started off normally. Lezcano was riding a horse named Christmas Present. Lezcano slipped off the saddle, his body sideways against the horse with his arms around its neck. As the horse continued pounding its hoofs against the racetrack, Lezcano brought one leg back over the saddle, trying to steady himself atop Christmas Present again.“A little confusing there, didn’t see him, thought he was off, but he was on,” Galassi said about one minute into the race. “Now he’s back in the saddle, just a tremendous job by Abel Lezcano to keep aboard that horse.
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