BEATING DEATH BY A NOSE
1936 RESURRECTED RIDER RACES ON
Spectators at a California racecourse were left shocked when jockey Ralph Neves was crushed by his own horse, Fannikins, after she tripped. The teenager was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead. There was even time to wheel him to the morgue and tag his toe. Neves then woke up. What’s more, he wanted to go back to the track and finish his day’s racing, a request denied by his stunned doctor. The San Francisco Examiner’s headline read, “Neves, called dead in fall, denies it”.
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