1.   Each charged from the gate and handled the top gates well, but each then was jostled from gate to gate midway down the steeps.

2.   Each charged from the gate and handled the top gates well, but each was jostled from gate to gate midway down the steeps.

3.   Each charged from the gate, each handled the top gates well, but each was jostled from gate to gate midway down the steeps.

4.   He made an all-or-nothing dash down the hill in the second leg and stumbled at a gate midway down the course.

5.   Then his right pole was ripped out of his hand as he struck a gate midway down the course.