Race Horse Does Perfect Somersault (PICTURES)

Four-year-old German mare Schattenlady lost her rider and took a big tumble--and both managed to walk away unscathed. Scroll down to see the pictures from the Daily Mail.

Comments

[baldblackman]

Poor horse, all that weight on such skilly legs!
Of course if we end horse racing what will we do with all the horses, adn same thing for cows, pigs, sheep and other animals? If everyone stop eating meat and wearing leather we would be face with a huge overpopulation of animals, and do we let the keep breeding?

[iBgood]

Aww. Poor horsey. : (

[mbh78213]

Now that we know the horse is okay, that "handstand" picture is kind of cool.

[SpoxLogic]

Whew! Glad horse and rider were both OK.

[formlessness]

a perfect somersault would be one where the horse flips over and lands on his feet. this is a picture of a horse losing control, flipping over and landing on his back. not much perfect here besides the fact that the horse wasn't more seriously injured.

[sssteverrr]

No offense, but I tried it. When I do a summersault I end up on my butt.

[BigSid]

That's funny!

[EspritDeVoltaire]

The rider is lucky not to have landed underneath the horse. I'm getting sick of seeing animals abused for people's amusement.

[steverexxx]

Thank you. Me too. This is 2008, there are plenty of ways to entertain yourselves people. Leave the animal abuse to our barbaric forefathers.