This is the dramatic moment a TV presenter was thrown to the floor and dragged along after trying to stop a loose horse.


At The Races presenter Hayley Moore sprang into action to catch the horse, appropriately named Give Em A Clump, after it unseated its rider at Chepstow on Tuesday.

The horse, wearing blinkers, stumbled and unseated jockey Fran Berry in the seven-furlong handicap and evaded stewards for nearly four miles before the heroic presenter from Brighton stepped in.

As the half-tonne horse charged towards her at 35mph, it slowed down and she grabbed the reins as it galloped past.

Hayley, the daughter of trainer Gary and sister of top jockey Ryan, was knocked from her feet and dragged along the floor before the horse came to a stop.

After capturing the horse, she dusted herself off and took its saddle off before going back to her day job.

Viewers watched the whole episode as it was broadcast live on the paid-for racing channel.

Hayley, who used to be an amateur rider before broadcasting, joked later on the show with her impressed colleagues: “He gave me a clump there but I just couldn’t bear to see it go out on another lap so I thought we’d go for it.

“They’ll have to put the divot back in.

“Lucky it’s on the jumps course so there’ll be time before the jumps season commences here.”

She added: “Keith Ottesen (clerk of the course) had got him to run down a good part of the track (to be caught), which is where we were. There were horsey people around and I thought I would try to help.

“He had started to slow down – I wouldn’t have done it if he wasn’t. He just caught the side of my face, which is what knocked me down, but I’m fine.

“I just couldn’t bear the thought of him going round again, especially on quite a hot day. He had the blinkers on and I think he was panicking a little, he was running on adrenaline. I’m used to catching horses, but not quite like that.”

Keith Ottesen, clerk of the course, said: “I thought it was a hell of a tackle. She was brave – too brave, really – but luckily she was fine.

“It was one of the best tackles I’ve seen in Wales. We wouldn’t normally advocate that sort of thing, but we all know where Hayley comes from.”

Moore became the first woman on-course race commentator in the UK at Ascot in 2011.