Road Bike Racing - Which race did Zabel get crossed-checked by a horse?

I have that "Crash" video from World Cycling Productions where the two excited stocky horses run after the peloton and one of them side-swipes Erik Zabel.

Funny $hit for sure.

I googled "Zabel" and "horse" and couldn't find out any race info.

Anybody? :o

Wow. None of you racer boys can help me out?

Gent-Wevelgem a few years ago.

Funny thing is, I have had that experience too. Doing a P123 RR in Lake Helen, Florida. A horse with a 14 year old girl gets spooked as we come whizzing by. The horse takes off into the road, is surrounded by bikes and runs right down the yellow line for a couple hundered meters, before veering off the road straight into the woods, where the girl proceeds to get whacked by a low hung branch. Ouch! No racers were hurt. Most just ran off the road. The Dad of the girl wanted to sue the race director, but came to his senses.

Sue the race director for HIS horse getting spooked on an "open" road... hmmm :p

Yep...Ghent-Wevelgem.

I was training near Scheveningen once on the fietspad, when a bloke walking a horse had it drag him along before he let go after I went past.....it trotted out onto the road and just stood there. Funny.

Sue the race director for HIS horse getting spooked on an "open" road... hmmm :p
Horses do have right of way.

Horses do have right of way.


too right.....600kg of skittish, nervous muscle.

Or stated differently, "The law of the large."

A bit of trivia: I read that the horse's name was "Tin Tin".