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Bouncing back: Angus Cheleda ready to go again after spectacular Wincanton spill

Angus Cheleda parts company from Powerful Society at Wincanton in dramatic fashion but passed the doctor to ride in the next race
Angus Cheleda parts company from Powerful Society at Wincanton in dramatic fashion but passed the doctor to ride in the next raceCredit: Matthew Webb

Teenage conditional jockey Angus Cheleda gave his family the fright of their life as Halloween approaches with his spectacular unseating in the juvenile hurdle at Wincanton on Sunday.

Cheleda hit the hurdle and was spun into a full somersault before a heavy landing but was amazingly able to walk into the ambulance and get clearance to ride in the next race.

"I was very very lucky," said Colin Tizzard's claimer about the fall that was caught in spectacular fashion in the Racing Post picture. "My dad, granddad and godfather were all there and my mum was watching on her phone at work.

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