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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

"Jockey suffers 367th fall of career."

In this article, a man just wont give up his love for riding even if he breaks almost every bone in his body! Choc Thornton "Jockey" has fallen a total forty two times. The thirty three year old racer has been racing since he was sixteen, so he knows what hes into and the consquenses if something goes wrong. His injuries include torn muscles, broken collar bones (both multiple times) broken all of his ribs, chipped and lost teeth and busied his kidneys! Whoa! Choc is still riding! He says he lucky to not of having life threatening injuries but ones that he was easy enough to recover from and keep riding. His injuries not only affect himself but his bank too. All of his injuries add up too over thirty thousand dollars! Being thrown from about thirty miles an hour off a horse will do that kind of damage even worse.

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