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 * ... that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
 * ... that Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006?
 * ... that a modern hippodrama, featuring 32 horses, will be shown in London in September 2009?
 * ... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from 275 at its inception in 1923 to 1.15 million in 2009?