It was not too long ago when Trot Insider ran a story about a track photographer that got run over in a serious accident involving an off-stride Standardbred. Now, less than a month later, another scary incident involving a photographer has occurred at a different track.
In the previous incident, which took place on the lip of a racetrack in Finland, the photographer was run over when he stepped onto the racing surface to get a finish-line shot.
The photographer involved in the most recent incident was not on the track per se, but as an item that appears on PetaPixel explains, photographer Patrick McCann was injured and required surgery for two broken bones in his leg when a horse in a March 11 race at Cheltenham racecourse in Gloucestershire, England crashed through the rail.
Similar to the incident in Finland, McCann was very lucky to only sustain a broken leg. The horse that came through the rail was slowly being squeezed to the outer racing path as the field approached a jump. The horse in question was forced to the outside right as it leapt over the jump. The horse came right toward McCann as it landed. McCann began to move at the last second and didn’t get hit by the horse full-on, but did suffer a broken leg.
McCann’s photos from the incident, which appear below, offer his first-person perspective of the terrifying incident.
Please join Standardbred Canada in wishing McCann a speedy and complete recovery.
(With files from PetaPixel, Channel 4, and Patrick McCann)
