1.   Because she was wearing a helmet when her horse kicked her in the head, she can ride again and begin the eighth grade in September.

2.   Gaughan pulled the straps tight enough to make the horses kick two competitors.

3.   Horses kicked and threw riders, causing at least one broken ankle and several missing teeth.

4.   In his earlier days he was relentless and unforgiving, sending a rider packing if his horse kicked a dog.

5.   Last summer, Stull was about to take a Sunday morning horseback ride with friends when the horse next to him kicked Stull in the right leg.

6.   On his last day of riding at Sam Houston last winter, a horse kicked him in the chest, fracturing his sternum.

7.   One would-be jockey quit the school a few months ago after watching a horse kick Garza in the leg, breaking it.

8.   One of his nastiest injuries happened before a race, when the horse he was going to ride kicked him in the paddock.

9.   The last horse to pass kicked him in the head.

10.   Then came a knee injury, a broken pelvis and broken ribs when a horse kicked him in the chest.