Picture Perfect: ‘Everyone has the dream of calling the desk and telling them to hold the front page’

This picture captures such a unique occurrence: Nine horses falling at the first fence during the Listowel festival meeting in 1997.
Picture Perfect: ‘Everyone has the dream of calling the desk and telling them to hold the front page’
MAYHEM IN MOTION: Pat Healy’s iconic photograph of nine horses falling at the first fence at the Listowel festival meeting in 1997. ‘Because it was on film, I didn’t know exactly what I had. So, we developed the film and as it dried we saw what I had. It was beyond everything I hoped it could be,’ he recalls.

This picture captures such a unique occurrence: Nine horses falling at the first fence during the Listowel festival meeting in 1997.

That was 23 years ago, but it feels a lot longer, given the advances in technology in the time since.

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