Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News 

Video Credit: CEN/Gobierno de Mexico

This is the moment a military horseman accidentally slams a poor horse’s head into the ground as he performs tricks in front of Mexico’s bewildered president.

The incident took place during a parade to celebrate the 109th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution that was held in the Zocalo area of Mexico City, the Mexican capital.

In the video, Juan Angel Lopez Acevedo, who belongs to the mounted group and honours of the first body of the Army of Mexico, can be seen performing acrobatics on his sprinting horse.

The horse sprints in front of the President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his wife when Acevedo tries to swing runner its neck.

Video Credit: CEN

The horse slips and both the animal and the rider crash to the ground.

Onlooking troops rush in to calm the horse as the president and his wife look on with concern.

Acevedo can be seen hobbling away with the help of a colleague as the president and other spectators applaud him.

According to a press statement sent by the Head of the Mayor State of National Defence, General Homero Mendoza Ruiz, the soldier was taken to the Military Central Hospital in Mexico City.

The Secretary of National Defence (SEDENA) explained that the rider had tried to perform a“Parada India” (Indian Stop) as “the old Indian population of the American continent used horses for moving and hunting, capturing wild horses in herds by riding them and using the technique to make them stop.”

SEDENA added that the horse, called Tentacion, did not suffer any injuries in the incident.

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