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Falls (Accidents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

A Guardsman's Crash, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2001
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mr. R Minto falling off his horse, "Gladiator", during the Coldstream Guards' Regimental Challenge Cup Steeplechase at Warden Hill, Oxfordshire in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A "Last Ditcher", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2171
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the Sunday Pictorial newspaper of the horse, "White Cockade" falling and unseatting his jockey at an open ditch during the Past and Present Steeplechase, Grand Military Meeting at Sandown Park in 1920.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

A Real Cropper, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1996
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the horse, "Sunlight III" taking a bad spill with his jockey during the Birmingham Selling Steeplechase on 2 December, 1920.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Among the Flying Hoofs at Kempton, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2020
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the horse "Shallogan" and his jockey, Escott, suffering a bad fall at the Norbiton Steeplechase at Kempton in 1921. The image shows the horse and jockey on the ground as three other horse ride and jump over them, neither were hurt.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

At Becher's Brook Saxby Falls From Horse, "Svetoi", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3065
Scope and Contents

Photographs from the Sunday Pictorial showing jockey, Brook Saxby's bad fall from his horse, "Svetoi", at Becher's [Brook] fence at the Grand National in the early 20th century with the second image showing several policemen picking up the unconscious man from the racetrack.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

But No Damage Done, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1948
Scope and Contents

Newspaper photograph of a horse and rider suffering a bad fall 'at the first jump in a jumping competition' in Melbourne (Australia) Horse Show in 1922. Fortunately both the rider and the horse were unhurt and completed the race. The image shows the rider lying on the ground in front of the log jump with the horse suspended in mid-air.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Incidents of the New College and Magdalen Point-To-Point Steeplechase, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2281
Scope and Contents

Photographs of two horses and their riders jumping fences during the strangers' race at the New College and Magdalen point-to-point steeplechase in the early 20th century. The top photograph shows the winner Mr. C. W. Bennet on Heiress going over the last fence; while the bottom photographer shows Mr. M. Bucknall badly thrown from his horse, Bangle, as they both fall over at one of the fences during the race.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Jumping for Joy at Newbury!, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2002
Scope and Contents

Photographs of two horse races in the early 20th century: the top image shows two riderless horses jumping over a fence at the Berks handicap and the bottom image shows the jockey, Burley, almost falling off his horse during the Newbury jumping meet.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Man and Horse Falling, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2201
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a man with a rifle on his horse as it is falling.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Racing Mishap. Sensational Tumble, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3058
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse racing mishap showing a 'sensational tumble' a horse took at an American steeplechase event throwing its jocky many feet away in 1919.

Dates: 1870s-1930s