This series was submitted by photographer J. Bruce Baumann of Evansville, Ind., to the National Press Photographers Association Annual Award competition in 1965. He earned second place out of roughly 9,000 entries in the sports picture series category.

The rider in the photo, Nicholas Vergette, served as huntsman for the now-defunct Southern Illinois Open Hunt. The original caption for the photos, which ran in The Chronicle of the Horse in early 1967, notes that he and his horse, Billy’s Joy, “survived the fall.” Vergette also served as an art professor at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale’s School of Art and Design from 1960 to 1974, and the school’s art gallery is named in his honor.