u/thicketcosplay

Today, July 11, 2026. Two chuckwagons collided when going around their barrels.

On one wagon, the back right horse got tangled in a line and had to be untangled by an outrider and the team walked off the track.

On the other wagon, two horses went down. They put up a tarp to cover what was happening. After a bit, one horse was untangled and walked out the back gate by an outrider. The other horse stayed down for a long time. Eventually, it's head bobbed up above the tarp and the audience started cheering. It then immediately fell back down again. They then brought a trailer out and it looked to have some kind of lift on it to get the horse inside, but this was all hidden by the tarp.

No one seems to have any information about what actually happened yet. This is what I could see from my seat up in the nosebleeds. They did not play a replay obviously. I hope someone out there can find out what happened and what became of the poor horse. The following race started with a collision in similar circumstances, but thankfully only one horse got a little tangled and the other wagon went on to finish the race.

Bought at an estate sale in Canada. It looks quite different from a different necklace with mystic topaz, so I was wondering if there's any chance it's synthetic alexandrite?

Video taken in sunlight. Forgive my gardening hands - I lost a fight with a raspberry bush today.