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The newspaper headline read, “Jockey Beats Horse Over Finish Line.” The jockey beat the pack by 20 lengths and his horse by one length when he was catapulted out of the saddle and over the finish line. His horse, who had tripped, followed soon after. But the victory went to the second-place finisher named Slip Up. A race official said that the jockey “was so far in front that only a freak accident would stop him, . . . and that’s what happened.”