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PILESGROVE, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a horse tossed a rodeo performer off its back in front of a crowd of thousands and then trampled him to death.
Nineteen-year-old bareback rider Coy Lutz was trampled Saturday night at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, about 35 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The Howard, Pennsylvania, resident died shortly afterward at a hospital.
Cowtown Rodeo owner Grant Harris told NJ.com this was the first time a rodeo participant had died from injuries suffered in the event. He says Lutz's parents were among the crowd of 2,200 attending the rodeo and they witnessed the accident.
Harris says the horse Lutz was riding tossed him and then stepped on him several times.
Cowtown touts itself as the oldest weekly running rodeo in the U.S. It opened in 1929.
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This story has been corrected to show that Cowtown Rodeo is located in Pilesgrove, not Woodstown.
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