Massive kick to face by horse

A teenage girl is counting her blessings after being kicked in the face by her horse -- yet escaped with just a cut above her eye.

Rosie Morton is 'lucky to be alive', doctors say, after she fell while showjumping and was clattered in the head as she lay on the ground.

The 18-year-old was brutally kicked by her horse Luke, in an incident caught on camera by a friend.

Miss Morton slipped to the floor as her Arab cross refused a jump -- and the disoriented horse kicked out with his back leg, catching her in the face, as she fell.

While she needed stitches to the cut above her eye, her riding helmet may have helped protect her from much more severe injuries.

She said: 'I didn't really know what had happened at first, I just saw blood trickling down my face and my head was really, really sore.

I'm so lucky to have escape with a cut to my head -- once my stitches are out, I might need further plastic surgery on the scar, but the doctors are going to wait to see what it looks like.

'If I hadn't been wearing my riding hat, I would have been a lot more seriously injured, if not dead.'

She has owned her horse Luke for two years and has cleared him of any blame, adding: 'Luke very rarely refuses a jump, but on this occasion, I hadn't given him enough of a run up, and he just couldn't get over it. It wasn't his fault.

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This year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was bound to be the fastest ever in its 90-year history as environmental concerns had led to the paving of the road up to the 14,110-foot summit for the first time. Sure enough, records fell throughout the day, with champion Rhys Millen besting last year's fastest time with a 9 minute, 46.164 second run, a victory of two-hundredths of a second over the next runner. But the day was punctuated by two serious crashes that show just how dangerous the new Pikes Peak can be.

The Pikes Peak climb ranks among the world's most challenging race events, running a 12-mile course with 153 turns whose altitude changes saps power from engines and drivers. Unlike other races, there's few limits on what can be raced, with everything from motorcycles with sidecars to custom-built 1,000-hp race cars tackling the course every year.

Running a 700-hp turbocharged Hyundai Genesis coupe, Millen bested a field of gas and electric-powered competitors on Sunday, barely ahead of French driver and 24 Hours of Le Mans champion Romain Dumas in his Porsche 911. Last year's champion Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima, who had vowed to win the race in his custom-built electric car, saw his day end early after the car caught fire early in his run. Instead, the new electric record went to Fumio Nutahara in a Toyota-built race car, which shaved two minutes off the previous best time for an EV and placed sixth overall with a 10:15.380 run.

With 170 entries, crashes are inevitable, and this year Pikes Peak organizers tightened the safety rules anticipating the higher speeds on paved areas. Paul Dallenbach, one of the drivers favored to win the race, tested the limits of those precautions when the throttle stuck on his 1,400-hp unlimited-class race car, sending him flying into the trees at 130 mph. Dallenbach was not seriously injured, saying on Twitter later that there was "nothing left of the car. Took a flight 4 life ride but today was not my day to go. I am very sore."



Another driver, Jeremy Foley, and his co-driver Yuri Kouznetsov also suffered only minor injuries after their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX went off the road at Devil's Playground, rolling 10 times before coming to a stop on the mountainside. Foley and Dallenbach's crashes also highlight the inherent dangers of Pikes Peak -- there are no fences to catch a wayward car, and spectators can stand as close to the road as they can get. Expect all of these drivers to make another run at the mountaintop next year.