[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Here's an LA Times article from 2003 that mentions the injuries:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug...rts/sp-horse19

I think the confusion is because some accounts right after the race said it was only a sore shoulder.

And a video. The guy who put this one up set it to "Chariots of Fire" but the fall is a little too terrifying from the front angle to be humorous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilUEjYf4juQ

It was actually a collapsed lung (not a punctured lung) and that was why he was having so much trouble breathing. Here is another article about it. He said he felt lucky to be alive.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug...s/sp-stevens21