Sportsfile
28 April, 2009
Jockey James Carroll looks back at the rest of the field after his horse Lord Time took a tumble during the opening race of the Punchestown Irish National Hunt Festival in County Kildare, Ireland on 28 April. The race is a particularly difficult steeplechase. Neither horse nor rider was injured.
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