Royal Wedding escort soldier thrown from horse!

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Escort soldier thrown from horse

"A member of the Household Cavalry was thrown from his horse after the wedding service

One of the mounted soldiers accompanying Prince William and Kate Middleton to Buckingham Palace after the wedding service was thrown off his horse.

Television viewers around the world saw the animal bolting past the open-top carriage carrying the newly-married couple away from Westminster Abbey and to their receptions at the palace.

Kate and William were accompanied by soldiers on horseback from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment forming a Captain's Escort.

The black horse threw its rider shortly after the royal procession left the abbey and galloped past the carriage as it passed the entrance to Downing Street."

I do hope the horse was OK and that no-one got hurt.
I had a quick peak at the highlights (as went for a nice quiet hack this morning) and was only thinking how fantastic the horses were behaving before I read this on Google News.
 
One of the other threads about this has the link to a news item to show that the horse fell over.....
 
No I will have the full story when I see some of the chaps later but from what I was told he was led back by another rider - if I'm told otherwise I will correct myself :)
 
I remember seeing a horse ambulance but the commentator didn't remark on it, so assumed it had been 'scrambled' just in case.

Wondered if the large amounts of sand out side the palace was to prevent slippages, obviously they couldn't cover the whole route, but nice to know they suffer from shiny roads like the rest of us, although wouldn't wish a fall on any one.
 
Hope the jockey managed to buy the customery round of drinks when they got back!!
Glad both got home safely could have been an awful lot worse.
 
I had actually heard there was 2 of them had came off, one made it's own way back and the other was caught by one of the military police, I haven't been able to find anything to back up that there were 2 different incidents.
Think the horses were all brilliant!!!
 
Glad both horse and rider were OK (though I do not envy the rider having to sort out his gear now!!). However, one thing that ALWAYS annoys me in the media is this:

flawless until a horse spooked by the crowds threw its rider and bolted
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No... the horse did now THROW his rider. He slipped and the rider fell off. I think it was drummed into me from an early age that it is very rare for a horse to throw its rider, most of the time its us that fall off.

Total tangent there, don't mind me!
 
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