Former rodeo rider Doerkson seeks to buck-off Eby in B.C. election
When interim B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson was a bareback rodeo rider in the 1990s, he once took a spill bad enough to knock him out, burst his eardrum, dislocate his shoulder and break his collarbone.
Riding a horse named Kung Fu, which he described as a “huge” animal, Doerkson’s hand suddenly slipped out of his rigging, and he began to fall backwards.
“It bucked just as my hand let go of the rigging,” he said.He landed hard on his shoulder, and the other