Lewis Ferguson learned the hard way that trying to bail off your horse just as it’s about to jump over a fence is almost as bad of an idea as hanging out with Bill Cosby in his dressing room.
According to The Guardian, the 18-year-old horse jockey was competing in just his fifth professional race Wednesday afternoon at the John Dufosee Memorial Open Hunters’ Classic at Wincanton Racecourse, but he didn’t seem as thrilled about jumping over one last fence as his horse did.
Ferguson was riding the 4/7 favorite Merrion Square, and the pair was leading as they approached the final fence in the race. We’re not sure what spooked Ferguson, but it looked as though he tried to bail just before the jump.
That wasn’t a good idea.
We’re uncertain how the rules of horse racing work once the jockey gets wrecked by a fence, but it looks as though Merrion Square still managed to finish third, and that might have saved our $12 trifecta box.
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