Zizou's got nothing on this guy

From the BBC:

"Jump jockey Paul O'Neill is being investigated after TV coverage showed him apparently headbutting his mount before a race at Stratford. O'Neill was wearing his riding helmet when the incident took place before the 1510 race at Sunday's meeting. The horse had unseated the jockey ahead of the Novices' Selling Hurdle and eventually came home in fourth place. The Horseracing Regulatory Authority is examining footage of the incident to decide if any action should be taken."

Apparently equine lip-readers have determined that the horse was equally to blame.

 

Nay! don't saddle us with that one, Burgundy.

 

Truly awful

I'll not response in kind for fear it might encourage you.

 

It's just horse play

Bet he's for the jump now.

 

I had a nagging fear this might happen when I posted it

So I'm off for a nap.

 

That didn't last fur-long then did it ?

 

Of course not

I'm going to distance myself from the whole thing.

 

Sorry, could'nt resist, there'll be no more, it's run it's course, oops!

 

You pair of nob-jockeys...

 

You aren't stable

 

Fur-long, very droll, nice one Dirk.

 

Your views on me are blinkered

 

just seen that on sports news

to be fair the horse started it!

 

Man headbutts horse: update

See I told you it was the horse's fault:

"The horse had been very unruly leaving the parade ring. When we went to look at the last hurdle before hacking down to the two-mile start, he started reversing when we got to the hurdle and went under a railing which he lifted out of the ground. It took me five minutes to leave the railings and get him down to the start which I had to do as gently as I could. When I got to the start he headed straight for a car with me, stopped five feet from the car, whipped round and dropped me. I landed on my feet, but a bit awkwardly for my knee and I was a little bit angry then."

Asking for it then, really.