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... that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
... that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?