Horse-riding is dangerous. Deadly even. Especially when uppity commoners are involved! Mark Phillips is the coach of the US Olympic equestrian team. He has so far killed three team hopefuls this season with his "challenging" new jumping courses. This very much upsets his ex-wife, Princess Anne. "Phillips is about to be crucified as the halfwit menace," said one British journalist (according to Page Six). The problem is that Phillips isn't royalty, even though he was married to a Princess for a while, and only royalty can properly manage this exciting and deadly sport. We don't know if this is good or bad for Lou Dobbs' daughter Hillary, who is sort of American Royalty, isn't she? Thankfully, the world is still eradicating the horse menace. After the jump, terrifying footage of just how dangerous horse-riding can be.
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I swore you were going to put in the "Zoo" trailer again.
I agree, horse-riding, like vodka-snorting and incest, is something that should be left to the Royals.
Wait, the little girl DIED?!?!
I thought this was metaphorical and then I read it again - he's really killed three riders. Huh. I used to jump and never died. Maybe that's why I'm not an Olympian. Or, you know, dead.
Someone alert Broderick.
As the kid's tumbling, does she yell, "Don't throw me, bro?"
Barbaro predicted this.
If this equine uprising continues, we two-leggers will crush it and teach the hoofed ones a new, and considerably less flattering, meaning of "hung like a horse."
@Sarcastro: easy there. Ms. Antoinette.
@hypocriteoath: Neigh.
@Sarcastro: Affirmed.
So this is how the revolution begins ...
@Sarcastro: touchneigh.
If I ever become one of those maskled Mexican wrestlers, I'm going to call myself the "halfwit menace." Can anyone translate that for me?
First thing to go is Buttercup the Robotic Pony. Sombtch is scary and is probably a plant from the equines to track our every moves.
@hypocriteoath: Be careful, or I'll torch your village with neighpalm.
Those people are no longer alivery.
Is this proof that Sarah Jessica Parker is the antichrist for us but, you know, the messiah for horses?
@RocketRockit: i was a jumper, and when i was 15 almost died being thrown when my horse refused one.
needless to say, i didnt die. just got a little amnesia! (a la michelle tanner in full house.)
@Sarcastro: that wouldn't be very neighborly of you... wait. no I mean... ... you win.
Hillary Dobbs...more like American Annoyalty! Am I right?
Please, think of the children before posting that snuff film.
Over 2,000 American children die a year from the combined threat of suffocation by drapery and falls from cute little rocking toys.
@Sarcastro: El Ingenio De Medio Peligroso, though I think La Peligrosa Idiota (the dangerous idiot) has a nicer sound.
First they came for superman, and I said nothing/
@doxastic: Ahahahaha!
@TripMcCane: Thanks. I was afraid I was going to have to wait until I saw my Salvadoran buddy tonight.
@fivehole: Nice.
The worst I've managed to do (so far) while jumping was to crash head-first through an oxer when the horse refused and break my collarbone. If I had been royalty, would I have gotten a free upgrade to snapped spinal cord?
Maybe he's just weeding out people who can't handle the stress of being an Olympian. Or being on an Olympian horse and than being thrown off.
Are the royals upset about the loss of life of the stains left on the turf?
Can't we pay him to go back to Jolly Ole England and do this to his wife & in-laws?
They are quite useless and dieing while hunting would be such a proper way to go out.
I prefer horse to horses.
@snappaloosa: Oh, I broke my back once parting ways with the saddle over a four-foot rail and landing sitting straight up.
Silly Quarterhorse just wasn't trying hard enough. Ask any Gawker editor: I'm hard to kill.
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