After winning the $150,000 Royal Chase grade I hurdle stakes at the Keeneland race course on Hirapour, New Zealand jockey Clayton Chipperfield celebrated his first American Grade I win by executing a spectacular backflip from the horse`s back (p. 37). Yes, an honest-to-goodness, full-body rotation, above-the-saddle backflip. And, as they say in gymnastics, he absolutely nailed the landing.
