The full council meeting where a hate crime motion debate erupted in controversy (Image courtesy: Bradley Gerrard
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November 5, 2019 - Jockey Sam Twiston-Davies' quick-thinking in the last race at Exeter averted potential injuries to a fellow rider and to two horses.
Riding Just So Cool, Twiston-Davies was brought down when in contention at the third-last by the fall of Airton and the two horses became entangled with each other and their reins, while one landed on top of Airton’s jockey, Tom Scudamore.
Barely two seconds after hitting the turf, Twiston-Davies rushed over to pull Scudamore out from under the horses and then returned to help calm the two animals so that they could be disentangled. The end result was that horses and jockeys emerged unharmed.
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