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In the Gold Cup, a $50,000 timber stakes at 3 Mi miles, Lees captured 8-year-old gelding Navesink View pitched forward on his forelegs over the four-foot fence in front of the steward’s stand, while jockey Haynes is upside down, still holding the horse’s reins before landing on the ground.
Lees took the photo at approximately 75 feet from the fence with a 70-200 telephoto zoom lens on his Nikon digital D-200 camera.
“After (I won the 1978 Eclipse) 1 thought, oh, winning is easy,” Lees said. “But 29 years later, I realized that wasn’t true."
In 1980, Lees actually did win honorable mention — second to New York shooter Bob Coglianese’s famous shot “The Savage," of a horse viciously biting at another in a stretch drive, “so, at least I was in the game," Lees said.
Lees also won honorable mention in 1981 for a trio of steeplechasing photos, and again in 1994 with a shot nearly identical to the 2007 photo.
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