Jockey banned for horse head-butt
TV replays showed the horse, City Affair, being unruly in the parade ring, ultimately throwing O'Neill. The 26-year-old Irish jockey got to his feet and grabbed the reins, before lowering the butt of his helmet into the horse's nose.It's kind of screwed up to headbutt a horse...so I guess it's bad that picturing the incident makes me laugh. Ah well.British newspapers likened the incident to Zinedine Zidane's head-butt of Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final, with many headlines reading, "Jockey does a 'Zidane' to his horse."


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